CharlesXavier

Envy you guys in the states who can order pbandai stuffs effortlessly and with plenty of stocks to go about. Those of us in Asia outside of Japan struggle to buy any pbandai metal build with 1 sec instant sell out upon PO opening.

Asia outside of Japan instant sell out. Lots of stock available for the US.

I am curious to know.

Does the bluefin server crash the instant the PO is active?

And does the Metal Build figure get sold out in a flash the moment the PO is up?

This is what happens to the Asia sites when Metal Build POs are up.

I hope those of you with access to Bluefin have an easier and more relaxed experience during your PO.

3 hours ago, joelwuj said:

Wanted to PO the Blue Frame - I held off the P-Bandai JP site and waited for the SG site (my first time trying to PO there since I usually buy Macross, and they don't carry the franchise), seems like servers crashing and the item selling out is pretty common. By the time FJ got back to me, the JP site was then sold out.

In the end went with an Okini Land PO, hope they don't bail on me like Mykombini did on the Kairos..

All of the Asia sites for P-Bandai outside of Japan are instant sell outs for Metal Build items. Only in the Japan site can the PO stay open without selling out for between 30mins to 2 hours, depending on how popular it is in Japan. As for those that Bluefin carries for the US, not sure how fast they sell out but the window seems to open longer than it does in Asia.

2 minutes ago, juice14 said:

Dang missed by a hair on all platforms..... hoping Nippon Yasan pops up....

Hope you get yours too Justin!

Congrats to everyone who got it

Just now, crackpot said:

Regular release Metal Build isn't as bad. In fact, it's quite available and enough as far as my experience goes. 

Fingers crossed that you are right when PO opens in 5 mins

Metal Build Gundam and DX Macross are probably the most recession proof franchises that Bandai has.

My rant:

I only wish Bandai made more than enough for everyone. I don't care if they flood the market so much so that they have no after market value. I just want to get them easily for my own collection.

Discount or not makes no difference for Metal Build Gundam currently. It will still be an instant SOLD OUT when PO opens.

So Anime Export has now followed the likes of Nippon Yasan to keep stocks and sell at inflated prices after item release? Looks like another shop has joined the dark side. 

If pinoy78 is a Filipino, have to hand it to his/her resourcefulness to get at least 40 pieces of 1S in japan 

Guess there are places in Japan where no one cares a hoot about the DX VF-1S

Let's hope Bandai reissues this soon with the correct tampo. For all we know this one with the error print might be worth more in the future.

Did amazon Japan ever reopen sales for the 1S? Seems very unlikely now.

4 hours ago, SaitouSad said:

Which shop is this? Sounds like one to boycott.

Fu**** Ho***

active mainly on facebook and carousell

The metal build madness is driving collectors to the wall. Over here in Singapore, physical shops are opening POs at +50% above the recommended yen retail price. 

One shop is even taking bids on its Facebook page to award the top bidders for the limited stocks he will be getting. 

Not sure if the situation is the same in Hong Kong. 

Over at Japan, the Chinese are queuing at physical shops in akihabara to place their pre orders for metal build now.

No discount on both Japanese and English page. Ami knows this will sell out at an instant without any discount.

Well the same would apply to AE if they decide to open the 2nd round of PO. So it's for collectors to decide if they feel the sites are reliable.

I personally feel both AE and NY are reliable though NY can be quite slow and poor in communication.

16 minutes ago, F360 said:

You are probably right , by the way , were you able to secure one ? 

Nope I didn't cos I didn't expect it to close so fast. But I am not worried. The next POs should be open soon. I will get it again then.

1 minute ago, F360 said:

It sold out in under 3 hours from preorder opening on p-Bandai’s website .   Everything after is just stores selling what’re stock they were able to get from p-Bandai in those hours .   

Many are waiting for the usual 2nd batch announcements.  Even the proxy stores , haha.

I am pretty sure the Japanese domestic collectors will be complaining so Bandai will pacify them and come up with a round 2 PO. We should see it open again by mid June,

They are sold out cos it is sold out on the Bandai official site.

Surprised that they are sold out so fast though since the official PO is opened just 3 days ago. Must be a lot of proxies snapping them up.

Usually when this happens you can expect to see a round of POs with a 2nd batch releasing at a later date.

Got mine from local pre order. Lucky to be in Asia where Bandai opens PO outside of Japan. And it was pretty smooth compared to previous POs. Perhaps not many want this. 

I’m not aware if it’s the same in Japan or if this is still in practice but in other markets outside of Japan, retailers have to place orders for the less popular items in order to be “entitled” to buy more quantities of the high in demand items such as metal build and dx macross. 

For instance every additional carton of 6 or 12 pieces of SHFiguarts entitles the retailer to buy 2 pieces more of metal build or dx Macross. 

I suspect NY may have been subject to this and buy in a lot more of those shelf warmers to get more VF-1A. And they may have done the maths that they could get more profits out of selling the 1A at inflated prices and dumping those shelf warmers at or below costs. So this is a typical business strategy they adopt. 

And they have no worries about anyone boycotting them because they have no lack of buyers who will buy their metal build or dx Macross items even at inflated prices. 

And in case no one noticed, NY benchmarks it’s prices against those in yahoo japan. So they know they just need to be slightly more competitive than buyee to get your business. 

I hope Roy Focker will be a web exclusive. If it’s this mad with Max, I can’t imagine how it would be if Roy is a normal release.