Chronocidal
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Bandai doesn't operate on the principle of doing what people expect. I have to assume they do all of their market research on the back end, and have their production numbers figured out long before the pre-orders ever happen. And I also assume that they don't give a rat's hindquarters about the international market, because Macross is for Japan only. If they actually treated pre-orders as ways to gauge interest, or determine production numbers, every single pre-order for the 31A would have been filled on release day. @Shizuka the Cat I'm sure you had a better time than most folks here. Seemed like the overwhelming majority of attempts wound up stalled in broken/unresponsive/terrible website shenanigans and cart-ganking. Seemed even worse than the Max 1A from my experience, if only for the frustration of having so many orders stuck in carts that were lost due to broken and unresponsive websites.
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Personally I'd happily get behind every site just offering no pre-order discount, and requiring payment up-front. That'll eliminate a great deal of the scalping, because you won't be enticing them with higher margins, and they'll have to take the risk up front. What you'll be left with is people who actually want the item for themselves, and will be more willing to pay ahead of time to secure one. Cut out the speculators, for the sake of the collectors. A trade-off really. Little bit higher prices for people who get there fast, but you'll be saving late-comers money by curbing runaway markup.
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Wait, you mean they actually thought it was necessary to come up with an in-universe explanation for these?
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Yeah, I'd believe it. It's just a mess. I'm not even going to count on NY though, at least not so far as getting out the product anywhere near the release date. Odds are, I'll wind up with the strike packs before NY manages to ship out all the orders. I just really hope we all get surprised by stock freeing up around release date. We're coming up on the VF-31E release, so we'll finally get to see whether the scalpers were over-zealous for a valk that won't sell well, or if we'll have another 31A mess of miniscule supply. I learned my lesson with the VF-31A though, I'm not dealing with NY's nonsense refund system ever again. I'll wait until I'm old and gray to get what I pre-paid for.
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Think I'm just going to call this at 1, and be done. I don't need duplicates, especially if they go and make Hikaru's 1A as well. Probably time to revise my planned purchases.. depending on what Bandai deems worthy of producing in this line. Hopefully will get the Hikaru and Roy 1S.. Probably stick to a VF-1D, VT-1 (please?), and DYRL Brownie 1A then. Much as I like M&M 1Js, I've got too many of those already. Far as the blood diamond analogy goes.. you can't really call out any of the distributors when Bandai is the king of that entire scheme. They're the ones restricting the supply from the very start.
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Oh, I'm thinking more in terms of the prices going higher in general. I don't like it, but sites that require paying up front at a higher cost are a great scalper deterrent. Whether NY's practices qualify as scalping is up for grabs though. I'd be perfectly happy if more sites required payment up front.
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I admit, it's safer for your wallet. I'm not so upset about the markup. I would have paid that earlier, if the sites had worked. If that's what it takes to reduce the scalper nonsense, so be it.
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Make sure to pay in yen, the exchange rate knocks a bit off the cost. Went from about $306 EMS shipped, to $289.
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Don't know how reliable Nin-Nin is, but figure I'll give them a shot. Struck out everywhere else.
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Not sure that would help this anyway, unless you're talking about notifications later on.
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Possibly, but oddly enough, that was when I got my Max 1A preorder. It was a tiny blip of a window late in the game, and it went through.
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Should be a lazy TWE order. I'm grabbing between two and five sets regardless of this mess. Even if I never get Hikaru's 1S, I'd rather have the DYRL style packs to use on my 1J. Suppose now we just wait and see if the scalper market winds up dying out when they can't sell their markups, and we get stock available at release. I'm curious to see how Chuck's VF-31E release goes, because that was kind of the first in this new wave of ultra-scalper pre-order massacres. Couple of quoted replies got crossed there, he wasn't commenting on your post, but the one you were replying to.
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To say nothing of people who got kicked around in the queue up and down for the entire time they were waiting. Not really upset exactly, just don't try and defend a system that flaky. You won't help the situation, because people are already on edge from the frustration.
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I DID. IT DID JACK. Sorry, don't mean to get heated, but I was waiting there for the entire two hours. It did diddly squat at actually getting me in before five minutes ago.
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We're complaining because we watched a flaky-as-hell queue system go up and down and all around for two freaking hours, just in time for the site to load and have no stock of even the usual NY markup. It SUCKS. At least with a crashing site, you could try and reload it.
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Freakin.. just done with this steaming pile. NY finally loads.. sold out of the markup.
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See, even that didn't work for me. I've been trying to load it all freakin night. I never saw more than the ticket line page in the two hours since I started this nonsense.
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HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN? Sorry, I'm just completely bewildered. People have been waiting the entire night for NY to load. How can you suddenly load it, and get to the marked-up order before it's gone too??
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How is anyone -ever- supposed to get to NY? What good is a link when it won't load until the product is long gone?
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Same, have yet to see that site a single time tonight. Just a blank screen.
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I think this is by far the most outrageous fustercluck of a preorder I've ever seen. EVERYTHING broke. EVERY SINGLE SITE BROKE ON LOGIN/CHECKOUT.
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RIP everything every site froze on login. couldn't get jack.
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To those about to F5.. we salute you.
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That nonsense has basically written NY off for me except for TWE orders. Got much better things to do than wait in a virtual queue that'll expire before I can even find the item on their shop.
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It's actually from one of the Aoshima VF Girl kits.
