Guyffon

Hmmm, so sending them a ticket gets this done....

2 hours ago, spacemanoeuvres said:

Let’s not start downvoting folks who got their orders lol

NY are the people who don’t understand the concepts of math or customer service. Go down vote them 

Already did with my wallet, no more ordering from then for now onwards.

4 hours ago, Kinzoku VF said:

*Shhh* better not mention that person.....I did in a post way back when we were first trying to figure out what was happening, he bit my head off for no reason whatsoever....

Lol, hope he did not hear us talking baout him then

8 hours ago, Kinzoku VF said:

Again, pretty sure at that stage the order numbers don't mean anything. Seems they're just trying to clear out the first 4 days of preorders, that's it. Don't think it's got anything to do with the chosen shipping method either. At that rate I don't get how they're expecting to even reach mid-October or later orders. Aside from that phone call that mentioned some expected mid-May stocks, there hasn't been any official confirmation of any expected stocks as far as I know.  Anyway, we'll see what happens....

1st 4 days? they haven't even scratched the 2nd day, I only know of a special case of someone ordering on the 10th and got theirs aside from that nothing, my order is on the 7th at ard 10am and still no movement.

Thats what I think too, at least they will fulfill their orders

As for NY, yes it only happened once, but once is enough to warrant a change of vendors for me, since they changed their payment policies to punish 'everyone' for a few people cancelling TWEs on them and make you pay immediately for them. If they had not done that I might have stayed a customer to them, but since they chose this path, I guess I have to protect myself somehow from future disappointments. 

Yeah, I can't find them either, but TWEs have been known not to open on the dot, I guess give it a few minutes?

Should be opening now

I most likely will go to CDjapan, though they are more expensive generally

I don't see the webpage on the tamashi website though, is it confirm to be out today? 

hmmm in that case is this a TWE release or general release?

3 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

So, I've personally been waiting patiently to see if NY will ever deliver the pair I ordered on the first day of preorders.  After all the non-answers NY has given for people requesting updates, I've actually decided to wait it out until they cave in one way or another.

I see this happening one of two ways.  Either they ship me my order, or they tell me they can't do it.  If they ship it, great, but if they can't?  I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of cancelling on me for anything other than their own failure to deliver.

I'm in no rush.  If it turns out they can't fulfill the order, I'm letting them come to me to apologize.  Maybe I'm too hopeful, but right now, I see this as the most likely route to a full refund, only because I doubt they would have the gall to offer me store credit in apology for their own failure.  After all, what good is store credit if the store can't be trusted to deliver?

Why do I think NY will say "Hold my beer....."

Maybe NY contacted the china factory that makes bandai's stuff and are begging them to get some of those extra stock they produce for the (speculated) grey markets? (its all speculation so take with a grain of salt)

12 minutes ago, Kinzoku VF said:

I had enough, and contacted them (NY) yesterday morning (the only times I mailed them before that was shortly after release, end of March).

They have yet to fulfill orders from the 7th. Those mid-May stocks never materialised. And unless anyone has solid proof regarding those  'June Stocks', feel free to post the official Bandai post regarding the matter. Everything else is just rumours and assumptions (one other store said they'll receive "some" stocks in June doesn't mean a thing....not to mention their stocks might be a box of 10, that's it.)

7 months ago, you pay for something, 2 months after the official release date, you still haven't received your product nor a proper explanations. Yet, no one seems willing to contact them? Yeah, makes sense . I get it,  everyone's 'afraid' to msg them in case they cancel their orders ( no other reason why you wouldn't want to find out what is happening with your order....right?) 

They haven't even fulfilled the first 2 days of preorders, yet, somehow, they're going to send off all orders now? Feel free to explain and back up the reasoning behind this 'hope'.

Maybe more people should message NY, you know, 'out of curiosity', rather than wait, say nothing, and hope those rumours will come to fruition.

Here's a hint: June won't be much different than April/May.

 

I have messaged them and ask them for an explaination, and got the cookie cutter response, even got 2 people to call them on seperate occasions and got similar responses and the 2nd time they gave the ‘mid may’ answer. Just a week ago I asked them about their mid may stock and I got back the ‘your order is too old and will only get store credit if you cancel’ response. Believe me, some of us are not taking it lying down, but what else can we do if they choose to just say the same things and threaten your order with caveat filled store credit? How are you so sure we are all not doing anything about it.

I answered them that I only want my toy at this time nad they can take their BS store credit and shove it up where the sun don’t shine, but I got no response from that reply, go figure.

My problem with NY is that when people started to cancel their pre-orders for TWE items, they punished all their customers by making them pay 1st for TWE pre-orders. Now that they have taken our money and still trickling the sending of items till now, and my order is on the 7th of Oct, a mere days after the opening for ordering and they have yet to fulfil it,what about the rest whom ordered after me? So by this logic, shouldn’t we, the customers, punish NY for taking our money and not give any explanation to what happened and only offer a sh*tty store credit if you ask for a refund, and let me remind you that that store credits come with a ton of caveats.

So for me, If and when I get my VF-31A, I will be done with doing business with them. 

Scalpers, scalpers, scalpers everywhere, thats why, will still get the clips from shapeways when it appears there

I did not even bother with this, I came to see if there was an update to the VF-31A situation, then remembered that PO for movie messer was today 

4 hours ago, jenius said:

OMG, prep in progress on my 31A!

Finally, so happy for you man.....now if only mine started to move too.....

4 hours ago, Scyla said:

Well something is weird with NY lately. I haven't received not all messages from them that I should receive. For my VF-31C Super Parts I received a preparation mail last Friday but no communication since. Logged into my account and they showed the order as shipped with a working tracking number and all.

So hopefully I will have them next week or so. 

Maybe it ended up in the junk mail, sometimes my emails from vendors do end up there.

Hmmm, sad thing is they arent so readily available in a couple of years time unless they re-release it, and all you are left with is secondary markets, thus I now always try to get them on release, learnt the hard way when the VF-25 V2s came out and paid exorbident prices for ozma’s 25

4pm tokyo time

If its just the clips, we can 3D print those right?

1 hour ago, HardlyNever said:

I missed (or really passed on) the first vf-31f.  I'll be passing on this one as well, I'm only interested in the vf-31S, and that is largely due to the potential armor.

At this point everyone should know (unless you are brand new) that macross toy production is all about milking molds to the point of saturation, and getting the same suckers whales, enthusiasts to buy essentially the same thing over and over again.  That is just the nature of this particular beast.

If you don't like that the companies do it, don't support them by buying their merch.  Or just pass on the releases that you feel are overly abusive/money-grubbing, and I wager you'll be a lot less upset about them in the long run.  You'll live, I promise.  Just something I learned from the video game hobby; I don't really get pissed off at all the crappy things video game publishers do if I just don't engage with those particular products.

As always, let your wallet do the talking.

That said, I was a bit of disappointed when they did not milk the YF-30 mould with the variants from the game

13 hours ago, wmkjr said:

DX VF-31F Hayate/Messer PO June 1. General release. 

http://figsoku.net/blog-entry-109901.html

Where's Chuck?

What no VF-31F with blood splatted cockpit?

Charles when did you order yours again?

I just want my one and only piece from NY