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阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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Good lord, I certainly wasn't expecting such failure from Goodsmile Company regarding international business...
For those who haven't followed/learned about that, GSC allowed overseas customers to order some of their figures, mostly their charity actions through their official website. The thing is that they advertized that the only shipping method was EMS, at a flat rate of 2000 yens, regardless how many figurines you were ordering (so same fee for 1 to 5 figurines). I was suspecting something weird, considering how expensive it may be for them with EMS on the long run, but it seems the horror was worse than anyone could expect: Initially, after 2-3 weeks, people were wondering what was going on since no parcel arrived, and more importantly: close to no one received a tracking ID. Only after many inquiries, GSC finally responded with that kind of email: Quote:
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I sure hope it will be the only one epicfail they've done with their oversea customers, otherwise, I'll feel pity for those who orderer the madoka figurines, especially that huge ass Kyuubey.
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2011-08-09, 09:39 | Link #3809 | |
Sayaka★Magica
Join Date: Sep 2010
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I received those e-mails today too, it seems it was a mass email sent to everyone who ordered Nendo Support Miku. To think that I e-mailed them on August 1 and I only got a response today, a generic, machine translated response for the masses. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. What's worse is, that's just the beginning of our problems, because by Surface Parcel shipping, our packages are exposed to the danger of getting crushed in transit and the risk of outright loss without insurance, aside from the very long wait. I've got a lot of patience, so I am capable of waiting for long, but what I just can't stand is, we've been technically scammed on shipping. That's just wrong. It's plainly false advertising. It's outrageous. There's a big uproar going on now on Nendo Support Miku's page on MFC, naturally, many other people are very angry about this.
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2011-08-09, 09:45 | Link #3810 | |
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2011-08-09, 14:13 | Link #3811 | |
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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I really wonder what has happened for such fiasco: GSC didn't have trouble to import a lot of them for the Anime Expo in USA and Japan Expo in France (they had 300 for the latter, and I really don't regret for having been impatient and buying one on the spot despite my pre order). I mean, sure the mass is probably much bigger compared to the quantity they have brought for the 2 conventions, but they should have been prepared themselves, considering the sheer amount of pre order stopped on April. They had like 2 months to deal with it, yet we got belated excuses... urgh. What concerns me the most is that since Surface Parcel (by boat, correct?) is likely to be expotionally more dangerous the longer it takes, I wonder if the nendo will be fine for some people, considering how flimsy the package are. I was kind of lucky, but I would be definitely pissed off if I were to discover that kind of crap, while some people would have it for $40/30 by just wandering in one of these conventions.
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2011-08-09, 16:56 | Link #3813 | |||
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On guitar forums, you should read the horror stories from guys shipping guitars CONUS through the much revered 'famous' parcel companies
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2011-08-09, 17:39 | Link #3814 |
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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Even SAL would have been fine. What we are talking about right now is actually Surface Parcel, which is yet even more risky and random than SAL altogether (unless I'm mistaken, Surface Parcel is actually by boat...).
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2011-08-10, 01:05 | Link #3815 |
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This is my first figure kit for the year. I can't believe the year is almost over and I'm just getting my first figure kit done. Then again, this kit's been on the bench for a little over a year. It's from a sculptor that goes by the circle polygonia. The complete build progress is here: http://gamerabaenre.com/?page_id=2087
And this is what she looks like now: Full gallery is here: http://gamerabaenre.com/?p=2109
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2011-08-10, 05:59 | Link #3816 | |
Sayaka★Magica
Join Date: Sep 2010
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I've ordered from HLJ a few times as well, always via SAL except for one package, and as far as I'm concerned, they use one of the sturdiest boxes out there, which has kept my goods safe even if they use less inner packaging than their competitors. The problem is, the packages GSC sent appears to have little or no inner packaging aside from outer boxes that might not be the toughest. This is made worse when you think that they're most likely sending by ship and not by plane like SAL. @GameraBaenre Good job with your GK, I saw your post on Figure.fm as well. That's an interesting, unconventional choice you made regarding Asuka's test plugsuit.
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2011-08-10, 07:39 | Link #3817 |
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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With all the rage towards GSC, a package from a friend showed up today as some balm... quite an excellent timing, since it is a Snow Miku 2011 (as expected, airmail would beat the crap out of GSC shipping method, despite this small packet was sent on Friday).
Box and nendo alone: over here. I must admit I wasn't expecting to have troubles while posing her, but it wasn't really a cake walk either: the hole in her back is not really deep, so that "arm" doesn't exactly hold her tight, which is truly a bother when you have to move her torso etc. Probably a balance of karma, I guess my snow miku was one of the average quality among the mass production without any major defect (thankfully *sigh*): -the PVC color of her body is a bit weird: it isn't obvious on the pictures, but her arms and area outside of her face on the faceplate are... well salmon/orangeish for some reason, especially her left arm with de 01 -Hachune hair part had its paint scuffed around the bottom left strand of hair (thank goodness it wasn't on the regular hair part) -The paint finish isn't exactly smooth at some area Frankly, if I were to compare with the Support version, Snow Miku is definitely no match to the latter in term of production quality. That said, the color pattern and her second faceplate are excellent (Blue and Silver are my favorite colors so...), although I think it doesn't exactly worth the price tag I've spent there... (initial 5.5K with 800 yens for the handling over there, and that's without the shipping JP => BE). By the way: does anyone know how to tag an uploaded picture with their respective figurines shown on it, in mfc? Trying to tag this one with Support and Snow 2011, but to no avail (can't find an option for it... just signed in few days ago so).
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2011-08-10, 09:17 | Link #3818 | |
Sayaka★Magica
Join Date: Sep 2010
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If I'm not mistaken, only the picture's uploader can link/unlink a picture to a figurine, so only you can do it for your own pictures.
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2011-08-10, 09:27 | Link #3819 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Greetings fellows, I've finally signed up, so I could post in here. I have lots of figures with boxes and was wondering if anybody would be interested in buying any.
I don't plan to sell them all, since I have favourites, but just let me know. I may consider selling some of my favourites depending on the price, if there is interest =) I'll go take pictures now... http://i52.tinypic.com/245d092.jpg http://i52.tinypic.com/jh3ad5.jpg http://i56.tinypic.com/nv5lk2.jpg http://i54.tinypic.com/11t65qb.jpg http://i56.tinypic.com/15f24ih.jpg http://i56.tinypic.com/oubq4h.jpg I don't know if I should post this here, but I have magazines/manga/dakimakura and various doujins and such if anyone is interested. |
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Nice Gamera, I always love to see your projects That is a nice ass btw
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