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HLJ is sold out, wasn't able to successfully check out.
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23 hours ago, Bolt said:
Tempting! Especially as SF isn't far for me. Soul searching..
I can make it even a little more tempting 😆... how about $420 for local pickup?
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Price drop - $460 shipped within CONUS
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Opened the brown mailer box just to check the contents. Looking for $500 shipped within the CONUS via PayPal invoice or $440 local pickup (SF, CA 94107)
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3 hours ago, skullmilitia said:
you guys are making me worry, I have an SHF order through them, and Now I really don't want to bother going with them. Especially when it'll be easy to get on AJ on release day.
SHF are usually pretty readily available so I probably wouldn't worry about it too much. I've placed at least 40 orders with N-Y since 2012 and haven't really had any issues (knock on wood) besides the long VF-31A delay.
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On 3/10/2020 at 8:05 AM, VF-18S Hornet said:
I didn exactly cancel my pre-order for the Kairos just switch ed to the VF-31J Kai for the price I paid for the Kairos.
Did anyone ever figure out what the deal was with the VF-31A Kairos pre-orders from NY? It seemed like most people were eventually able to get at least one unit, (mixed results for multiple unit orders), but it was really weird how it seemed like they were getting a couple units at a time every couple of months over the next year or so. I think I got mine after 9 months.
Given their customer service and price gouging track record, I highly doubt they were buying more units on the secondary market (VF-31As were expensive everywhere) just to honor everyone's pre-orders and it wouldn't make sense that Bandai would still be producing small quantities over the next year. To this day, I'm still really curious where those VF-31As were coming from.
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7 minutes ago, SpaceCowboy said:
Scored at amiami.
It was in my cart for like 40 minutes trying to check out. Here is my theory. Once it is in your cart, you have it for a certain time. As long as you are making progress along the path, they will let you keep it in your cart. My theory is that there is a timeout where they clear your cart and put it back into gen pop, that's why they become available again.
It was in my cart for like 20 minutes not letting me proceed. Then it let me go to payments but sat there for another 20 minutes because there were too many users for me to check out. So I just kept trying to pay and eventually it worked.
Good luck all. This is enough to turn people off the hobby.Got one from Amazon.co.jp this time but this has also been my experience with AmiAmi. Once it's in your cart, just keep trying to check out serially from the same session. Don't open a bunch of browsers/tabs and keep refreshing in parallel as this sometimes leads to your cart being reset.
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bump - price drop
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MISB Bandai 1/48 DX VF-1J Hikaru - $320 - SOLD
MISB Bandai 1/60 DX VF-31C Mirage - $200 - SOLD
PayPal (includes 4% fee) or cash only. Only willing to ship within the US and buyer pays actual shipping cost.
I'll knock off $20 if you're local and willing to come pick them up and pay with cash. i'm in SF, CA 94107 and on the Straight Shooters List.
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Just now, MikeRoz said:
Had to cancel my N-Y order and make a new one, but I finally stopped getting PayPal errors. 30300 JPY total shipped.
Here's a question for the VF-1J early adopters among us - how hard was that one to snag on or around release day at MSRP?
Bit the bullet and just ordered from N-Y at 25,800 yen so I could just get it over with.
The VF-1J was much easier. I was actually able order one from both CDJ and HLJ so I just ended up canceling my HLJ order.
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Where are you in the Bay Area?
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Hi-Metal R
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VF-4 available at CDJ again - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOGDS-308850
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9 hours ago, no3Ljm said:
USPS released a customer advisory regarding Hurricane Florence. I'm also waiting for a package from Nippon-Yasan which they shipped it last Sept. 6 via EMS. And there were no new updates since.
Mine shipped on 8/23 and has had no updates since it left Osaka on the 8/25. There was also an additional note re: the delay on the Japan Post tracking page, but this is probably the longest SAL has ever taken for me.
"Delays are expected in the delivery of international mail and EMS addressed to the areas in the United States of America listed in the table below due to delays in processing at the Office of Exchange (OE) of Los Angeles and a subsequent increase in the backlog."
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7 hours ago, Chronocidal said:
I'm assuming all of these are single orders? I've asked multiple times over the past few months about my order for two, and gotten nothing but the repeated "Don't worry, we'll get you your order!" At this point I'd just be willing to take a single and store credit, but if they cancel the order entirely, I want it back in cash, because that's what a single will cost anywhere else.
A couple of people on this thread have definitely gotten multi-unit orders, but I think they were very early orders. IIRC, someone in this thread actually asked customer service about converting their order to a single unit and they actually said they would be able to fill it sooner if they did, but I'm not sure whether or not it actually panned out.
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For anyone still waiting for their VF-31A from N-Y, I finally just got a shipping notification so it looks like they're still slowly filling orders. I have no idea where they're even getting these from, 6 months after release, but I have to give them a lot credit for eventually following through instead of just cancelling everyone's order and marking up any new stock that arrive later.
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Has N-Y shipped any 31As in the past couple of weeks? It's been pretty quiet for a while... wondering if it's about time to give up.
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Just now, rdrunner said:
Has anyone else received email confirmation from HLJ? I can't even see my order(s) on their site if I wanted to go in an cancel the duplicate.
Finally just got it from HLJ
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finally successfully checked out and received email confirmation from cdj
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36 minutes ago, IXTL said:
finally got one, thanks!
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1 hour ago, wmkjr said:
That's via proxy correct? What are the service fees? The regular one is sold out.
Proxy:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-17421
Regular:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOGDS-230584
CDJ proxy fees are pretty steep... I think it's 500 yen + 10% of the item price and since it's shipped within Japan from seller to CDJ, you also have to pay tax (normally CDJ to outside Japan = no tax).
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Knowing that they have good reputation and all, what are the chances that you can score one knowing that most of the popular japanese store is already sold out?
I don't think being sold out at Japanese retailers is necessarily indicative of availability outside Japan. I think there's generally some % of the production runs that're specifically allocated for export and it's not really that uncommon for stuff be sold out at AmiAmi, HLJ, etc but still be available at BBTS a month later.
That said, I've never actually pre-ordered anything from them myself and most of those come from Bluefin... and I don't think they're allowed to carry Macross because of Toynami / Harmony Gold so I'm not sure where these would be coming from.
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Image Anime still has these available for pre-order if anyone wants one bad enough:
http://www.imageanime.com/dxchvfsihimc.html
Price is pretty steep ($250 + $25 shipping) and the full amount is due at checkout, but other than their prices, they seem to have a generally a good reputation.
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Just got a payment request from NY for $215.78 USD ($191.94 + 21.59 SAL registered). At this point, is asking NY to change the payment currency to JPY pretty much the our cheapest option? ... because PayPal's USD>JPY rate is generally so bad that I'm thinking any potential savings would just cancel out PayPal's currency conversion rate.
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When you guys are referring to NY, which online store is this? Can you provide links?
Thanks
Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross Plus YF-21
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That's pretty much how high demand pre-orders go at AmiAmi.