orindlt
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Stand up at HLJ https://hlj.com/macross-do-you-remember-love-macross-variable-stand-aca82145
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I got all the ones I ordered. One immediately. One only a few weeks back. They came through. I will continue to spend money with them in future because, when it came down to it, I got my toys. I've had a lot of instances where my toys haven't turned up with some retailers, the wrong toys have turned up, and broken toys have turned up that haven't been replaced. I'm counting this as a win. Did their communication suck? Yup. Did I get my toys? Yes. Someone there seems to have done the work over the last year to get those orders fulfilled. Thank you to whoever that was. I'd much prefer that someone come through late and without much explanation than to have an order refunded (even with $) - especially in a case where the secondary market went bananas. I'd have bailed on them for eternity if they had waited a very long time & then cancelled and provided a refund. Those that took the bet and stuck around were eventually rewarded by getting what they ordered. There was no rational reason for anyone to believe that they came through, but if something similar happens in future with them and they say that they'll be able to fulfill the order in light of challenges, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
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- macross delta
- vf-31 siegfried
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98,000 yen ... gosh.
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(one recommendation I have in PO madness is to use a completely "clean" browser like Chromium or WaterFox (a FireFox fork) that doesn't have any ad-blockers and so on, so any scripts that might be on the site don't break)
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Our regular lesson on how Japanese hobby e-commerce stores choke like a bugger on PO day with predictable load.
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I got one in the cart at AMIAMI - lots of errors, but the one that was in the cart eventually got through to checkout about 10 minutes later.
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Got one at CDJ
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Thanks Chrono, now going into this PO singing Stan Bush in my head
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Any port in a storm ;-)
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My 2nd NY VF-31a arrived - first one I ordered on 6 Oct arrived at release, the second one I ordered on 26 Oct arrived this week. It took forever, but they did come through (at least for me).
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It's also Office XMas party season, so maybe Spanner has been on the turps ;-)
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Here they are on NY https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/26995-dx-chogokin-missile-set-for-vf-1-limited-edition.html
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The best thing about pessimism is at worst you're pleasantly surprised ;-)
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After being told "this item is no longer available at HLJ" - deleting it and adding it to cart worked.
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I use these sites as examples of what not to do when teaching cloud architecture. Incapable of dealing with load at predictable high volume times on a repeated basis.
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The standard for Shitty Shitty ecommerce sites has to be Japan.
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I have a single 31A in the mid 494000 order range that hasn't shipped, but it does look like they are gradually moving through the pile.
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Gerry is indeed a @##$@$@#$@)*@)*%@#
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And holy crap almost instant HLJ confirmation rather than "OMG wait half an hour to see if you've won the prize"
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AmiAmi was very much a "well I clicked twice apparently but not going to risk editing the cart" experience wasn't it
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HLJ https://hlj.com/product/BANS55138/Act
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My equivalent is 4pm Tokyo Time (which is 5pm Australian Eastern). But, you know, F5 just in case in 12 minutes.
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Just confirmed that the AmiAmi time is dependent on whatever your computer's clock is set to. Span up a VM in an Azure Datacenter on the US west coast and got a completely different number
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Well 17:00 Oz Eastern would be 4pm Japan time, so could be an attempt to be helpful for us.
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Ye olde advanced HLJ Valk Search for DX Chogokin: https://hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?qid=7O0BAUV10OKPVY&Dis=-2&q=1&DisplayMode=list&Word=DX+Chogokin&set=1&Sort=company+desc&Maker2=BAN
