Kinzoku VF
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Contacted them yesterday to see if it'd be possible to add France to the list of countries, ( won't be back in the U.K for a while and not going to book a flight just to pick up a parcel! ) Was really surprised they had the UK as the Macross 'scene' ther is even tinier than it is in France. Rambling aside, they've accepted. Just placed my orders before they all get snatched! ... So for anyone interested it's now possible to ship to French addresses.
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Couldn't have put it any better. Thanks no3Ljm.
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Watched about 11 ,with long breaks between episodes, found it really hard to get into. Didn't particularly like any of the characters, the 'idol' parts were kinda 'meh' 1 or 2 catchy tunes, but too obvious that they were purposely trying to have such a big group with tons of outfits , you know...for Banpresto to sell their stuff......tried but, nope....Maybe should give it another go. I hated Frontier the 1st time around, and on my 2nd viewing found it enjoyable ...
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Thanks for the info, the dates makes sense now.
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Was browsing and found that some places stated that the VF-31 A Japanese release date was on the 15th March and that they started shipping them from the 16th?? Did they have another date for Bandai Asia? I though it was the 24th? ...did I miss something?
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Sorry, it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, was just reflecting upon the dupe orders situation. I mean.....I could've ordered 2 myself ....Did not mean to offend anyone. More like thinking out-loud...I finished on a 'positive' note, wishing everyone ends up getting what they paid for...
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Unlikely that they're going to be able to honor any dupes at this point considering the shortages. They'll most likely send all singles first then see if they have enough for multiples. Or refund the dupes and send 1 order? I might be completely wrong but they're having enough difficulties to send single orders, not sure how they can justify sending 3 or more for a single order when they don't have enough for singles? Only speculation from my part of course, I haven't hot a clue.... Hope everyone will eventually get whatever they paid for. But.....if this week is anything to go by, not sure if next week will fare any better. (I'm such an optimist right? )
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Yeah, same, 10th October too....But at the rate they are being trickled out, if it's an average of, let's say 10 a week (I'm adding some speculative numbers of peeps who aren't on forums but might have received theirs). It'll take way longer than next week to reach the preorders placed on the 10th, not to mention ones placed in November ?? Up until now, from what we can gather, it was mostly some of the PO placed on 6th and 7th that were sent. (Emphasis on 'some') Pretty sure there are more from the 6th/7th that have yet to be sent out. (;_;)
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Anyways, another week and still nothing. NY are now closed until Monday. Last week I thought "Maybe they'll receive some stock with their Monday morning "deliveries"...then Tuesd and so on.....If they are doing it at the rate of a few a week, I just can't see it happening (unless they are waiting for some stocks they are sure to receive, but that's 'speculative dreaming' from my part....don't think it'll happen). I really wanted to stop checking this thread. I said "case closed" yesterday when that letter from NinNin was posted (aren't NN Also French own Btw? Lol ) ...yet I'm still here like an idiot. Aside from getting me stressed-out and even more p'd off, it's not exactly conducive.
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Personally ordered it on the 10th....4 days of PO to go YAY....4 days of orders at the rate they're going, not sure it'll ever happen....
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At least it shows what I had suspected from the start, they are sending the 1 (or 2) a day they receive-acquire in chronological order. Which makes complete sense. No reason for an order placed 29th October to be shipped before one placed on the 6th....The have order numbers for a reason. But if we are still on the 6th October, at that rate it'll never reach past mid October if that......
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Still find it odd that NY didn't manage to source enough to at least to cover the first month of preorders. How many did they get, like 6? Or was the case of hoarders buying 10 at a time. ( some still don't seem happy they didn't manage get more than 3 or 4 *sigh*.) I wanted one....not 2 not a squadron. Pretty odd NY are still stalling the info, asking for a refund if I don't hear from them by by tomorrow. If they knew all along WTF were they doing? Waiting for what? A shipment from the heavens? Whatever. Case closed.
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Wonder if Slave IV is still keen to buy off a NY preorder knowing the extremely high likelihood that they will most probably not deliver..... They better make up for it with some re-runs or whatever. How incompetent can their marketing/distribution team really be??. Until they do, a big FU to Bandai. . As for Eb scalpers they can shove theirs you know where.
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I once contacted Bandai US (or U.K...I forgot) regarding a replacement part for my DX Great Mazinger SOC (the big one with opening armors etc....). It had just been released, so it's not like if it was an old obscure toy....As expected, they told me, it's not a product that is supported by their services and that if I bought it from a reseller to contact them about their warranty, nothing to do with Bandai... Obviously they don't have the same policies, safety laws etc for products that aren't distributed outside Asia, kinda hoped they could've helped me out somehow...Yeah right....in my dreams.... So contacting Bandai Japan, you'd most likely get the exact same reply....
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Kinda hard considering how much those companies charge for their products nowadays. If I was loaded with money and could afford to get triples of everything I don't think I'd care one bit, nor would I make a huge deal about it. I'd just pay $500 or whatever it's current value and problem solved. Unfortunately that's not my case....I'm already finding hard enough being able to afford those ridiculous prices as it is, don't need the additional stress not knowing when or if I'll even get what I've paid for.
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Thing is with a company like Bandai the internal structure is far from straightforward. They have hundreds of teams working on different projects all at once, thousands of different franchises. It's not just the Macross line that is affected. Having to budget and time everything so that all other releases can also keep up their dates must be insane. If you look at the amount of releases they have every month from different lines across the board, there's bound to be hiccups. Come on Bandai, an NY, FFS just burp us out that Kairos!!
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Must admit, it was tempting, but I'd end up banging my head on a wall if NY do come through with the order....Plus it looks so sweet...and 'realistically' themed DXs ( is that even a sentence) are few and far between to give that one a miss....
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Unlike some other retailers though, looks like NY are still waiting for some stock to trickle in, like 1 or 2 maybe slightly more, every 3 days...They didn't just remove the product page as if it had never existed. The few who received their NY orders had been placed around the 6th/7th October. Maybe they will at least manage to honor and ship all October preorders however long that takes. Seems obvious by now they won't be able to fulfill all orders (if any ! *gulp* ). Hopefully the ones sent will be shipped in chronological order, and limited to 1 instead of 3 or 5 (whatever the amount might be) for multiples orders and dupes refunded. Far from a great outcome, but 'fair' considering the situation. Better 1 than nothing right? There are at least 2 issues at work here: extremely slow delivery from TWE for web stores. Pretty sure they prioritised orders they knew were from 'genuine' customers rather that fake businesses TWE accounts. For the other shipments (the ones that obviously looked like they were from stores), no one truly knows the extent of the pbs. QC issues at the factories? Batches that have yet to be finished or sent? Slow Shipping from HK to Japan? A container full of DX lost at sea? Take your pick. Then, that PO window that was left opened far too long for a TWE (it was sold out everywhere else by the end of October/early November yet NY were still taking orders...should've been a red flag. Heck, even their last HMR Ostrich PO didn't stay opened longer than a day!?... ). Not sure how long Mycombini etc had theirs opened for, but those shops got greedy and took in way more orders than they knew they'd be able to secure. On a sarcastic note....the more people cancel and request refunds, the more chances to eventually secure one! Come on everyone, mass cancellation needed for all Kairos paid for before the 10th October .....Go bananas \/.
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Yeah, I know, I tend to ramble .....Main reason I was a lurker on the site for the longest time before I eventually became a member. For the most part I stay silent, when I 'open it' , as you've already gathered, I just get way carried away with long ass replies.....(should really learn to summarise better....)
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My bad, did not mean to offend, I read it wrong .Hopefully PayPal will come through, up until now, ever claim etc I ever done has been successful, they mostly side with the customers especially in cases of obvious 'suspiciousness' like NY.... again it wasn't meant as "it's a lost cause" I genuinely thought the PP had refused and NY offered you store credit. m(_ _)m
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Just got up....Having my coffee, and catching up on my new favourite show There I was thinking we'd get some good news today...*sigh*. Not even a single member reported their order shipped...That's a major dissapointmeng. On the PayPal front...most of us are screwed anyway as our orders were place before....( I'd still rather get some store credit than...well nothing....obviously) Still don't know what to do, not really feeling like selling my PO, (tempted.....but, I'd be kicking myself if they end up coming through), Love the scenarios though... like "an employee on holidays, that kept the key to the Kairos warehouse" . Could be any number of issues. One thing I don't believe though is that they are doing all this on purpose, to list them later for x3 times the price. Again, they are not an exclusive Macross store....They have thousands of other line and items, way more expensive than any Macross DX/ Arcadia stuff (don't forget they also deal in video-games, Ltd Ed consoles etc)....Macross is a really rather small part of their inventory. Their only pb is their lack of transparency, which automatically gets turned into suspicion (rightly so! It's only human nature) Well......the wait continues...Sorry about your PayPal claim IXTL.....Sucks....On the bright side....you can use it for a Sentinel Mospeada (or whatever......)
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Yay! Congrats. Enjoy! Maybe there is some truth about the PO being slowly sent out in the order they were placed.(there is O.K!?)...If in order to buy all those POs they had to use different TWE accounts (not sure what was the maximum amount you could get per single TWE order), after that, shipped to different addresses, then shipped back to the NY warehouse before finally getting shipped to the customers. Now, for good measure, just add a sprinkle of unforeseen issues with the Bandai manufacturers,(maybe the first batch will self destroy after a set amount of transformations, poor assembly, unaligned parts etc) might explain the additional time. As for the other sellers who refunded/cancelled, just to avoid issues with PayPal or CC...and customers going postal ( o.k, most probably out of greed, to slowly sell them back at $500 a pop.) We should write a book...wait let's make it a movie, with a plot happening on a web forum, with murder twists and stuff! O.k...I'm definitely loosing it now, no doubts!
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If that's going to be the case, I truly (and selfishly )hope they're going to be 'fair'. By that, I mean chronologically prioritise the orders, and if you bought 5, refund 4 and send you one. (Would you rather get 1 or none at all? I for sure would settle for one ) I'd be fuming to get 'jumped' by some 'multiples' orders placed late November or whenever knowing I placed mine pretty much right at the beginning of October..... Hopefully this fiasco will have a good ending for everyone involved....
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IXTL, forgot when you placed your order? I placed mine on the 10th. Seems that the last lucky few who got a 'preparation in progress' mail were placed on the 6th. If they are currently sorting out orders placed on the 6th, I have 4 days of orders before they start on the ones placed on the 10th. Maybe they are trickling whatever stock they get in order of payment after all? But from what can be gathered the forum, doesn't seem like it's more than 1 or 2 a day, if that .( Ultimately, it doesn't bode well for orders placed late October/November etc.) Could it be that in order to avoid raising any 'suspicions' from TWE, they placed all their orders from different accounts, all got shipped to different addresses, and it's now taking forever shipping them back to their main warehouse?? *Sigh* At any rate, we could sit and debate the 'what ifs', all day. I'm still not sure what to do, was initially willing to wait it out, but their lack of communication is p'ing me off ( aside the 1 formatted reply I received 6 days ago). Don't really feel like having my account terminated nor loosing all my other current preorders for having cancelled that one, and not sure the Paypal protection route would be any better. Either way, I can't afford to loose the money from that cursed Kairos .
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Another day and still F all . Hopefully the Deculture gods heard our plight..... Otherwise...that's it, life-time boycott for Bandai, I sell everything (keeping all my Popy stuff though, but anything with a Bandai logo, up for grabs). I'll only collect Toynami's stuff..........or not. Really tempted to sell this cursed preorder. P'd off checking up that frozen 'order status' 50 times a day. Seriously, a 'proper' explanation should be in order by now. Are they just waiting for the all PayPal 'insurance/guarantees' to run out before announcing something. Really disappointed how they're going about this fiasco.
