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Moosey wrote:Anybody in contact with Lena? I keep checking his eBay page, but seems as if they're just reposting old stuff that didn't sell. Hopefully they'll have something good soon (like Cloud Rodimus)

Yeah of more cloud roadbusters. With Hasbro manufacturing in vietnam now, Lena doesnt get the factory leftovers. Whatever they get, they post.

Lena still posts MP05's regularly, and other TF bits and bobs, but I think I got one of their last Cloud figures. Just arrived on Friday!

william-james88 wrote:

Moosey wrote:Anybody in contact with Lena? I keep checking his eBay page, but seems as if they're just reposting old stuff that didn't sell. Hopefully they'll have something good soon (like Cloud Rodimus)

Yeah of more cloud roadbusters. With Hasbro manufacturing in vietnam now, Lena doesnt get the factory leftovers. Whatever they get, they post.

Ooh cloud roadbuster would be nice, can't wait for those to get in! Is the issue still occurring where their listings only show up in explorer?

Moosey wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Moosey wrote:Anybody in contact with Lena? I keep checking his eBay page, but seems as if they're just reposting old stuff that didn't sell. Hopefully they'll have something good soon (like Cloud Rodimus)

Yeah of more cloud roadbusters. With Hasbro manufacturing in vietnam now, Lena doesnt get the factory leftovers. Whatever they get, they post.

Ooh cloud roadbuster would be nice, can't wait for those to get in! Is the issue still occurring where their listings only show up in explorer?

For me, yes, but I have the same problem with other listings that only show up in explorer, like my own

Also, like Shajaki pointed out, Lena does still put stuff up all the time, its just the same stuff. Its a good way to get MP Megs and the Alternity seekers at ridiculous prices.
Check this for example and then go check Lena. Its even better than Cloud Shockwave (the deal, not the toy).

The MP Megs by the way is not the old original release, its the 2nd run so its newer and doesnt have the rust problems (on mine anyway). Its just a drought period for new stuff. I recomend checking once a week instead of everyday, you will see more changes that way. That Dark of the moon megs by the way wasnt there months ago.

Also Shajaki, they look so good !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (except the Hasbro one, no offense to Hasbro)

It is worth checking back with lena81822 a little more regular as they often put 3 Day Listings up for some of the more choice about-to-be-released figures!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_sop=1&_ssn=lena81822&_armrs=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xtransformers.TRS0&_nkw=transformers&ghostText=&_sacat=0

I recently managed to grab a Hasbro Voyager Sky Byte for less than £8 delivered to the UK and just recently a loose gun/shield from Generations Deluxe Trailcutterbreaker for 67p to try with Gen Hoist for effect!

Does anyone own the Alternity Banzaitron?
Trying to find out which coloured parts in bot mode are plastic and which are painted as I have a potential Lazy Custom idea?

robotmel wrote::D
It is worth checking back with lena81822 a little more regular as they often put 3 Day Listings up for some of the more choice about-to-be-released figures!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_sop=1&_ssn=lena81822&_armrs=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xtransformers.TRS0&_nkw=transformers&ghostText=&_sacat=0

I recently managed to grab a Hasbro Voyager Sky Byte for less than £8 delivered to the UK and just recently a loose gun/shield from Generations Deluxe Trailcutterbreaker for 67p to try with Gen Hoist for effect!

Does anyone own the Alternity Banzaitron?
Trying to find out which coloured parts in bot mode are plastic and which are painted as I have a potential Lazy Custom idea?

I have him but I cant tell whats painted and whats plastic. It looks fully painted to me.

Moosey wrote:

william-james88 wrote:though with obvious factory issues

Wait, I realize he/she takes them from factories, but does every figure he/she sells have bad/obvious issues?

What you're buying from them are factory rejects due to major and/or minor QC issues. Bad enough the factory won't send them out for sale, so it's a crap shoot if you're going to get something good with minor flaws or something with hidden/major flaws not visible from the stock photos they use. Plan on there being something wrong with whatever you get from them.

Kyleor wrote:

Moosey wrote:

william-james88 wrote:though with obvious factory issues

Wait, I realize he/she takes them from factories, but does every figure he/she sells have bad/obvious issues?

What you're buying from them are factory rejects due to major and/or minor QC issues. Bad enough the factory won't send them out for sale, so it's a crap shoot if you're going to get something good with minor flaws or something with hidden/major flaws not visible from the stock photos they use. Plan on there being something wrong with whatever you get from them.

That's not always the case, I bought a full set of MP cassettes off lena, not only were they perfect, they were also factory sealed. And although some items I have bought have had issues (sloppy paint, missing pins) the figures without issues have outweighed the figures with issues, at least in my experience.

leakin' lubricant wrote:

Kyleor wrote:

Moosey wrote:

william-james88 wrote:though with obvious factory issues

Wait, I realize he/she takes them from factories, but does every figure he/she sells have bad/obvious issues?

What you're buying from them are factory rejects due to major and/or minor QC issues. Bad enough the factory won't send them out for sale, so it's a crap shoot if you're going to get something good with minor flaws or something with hidden/major flaws not visible from the stock photos they use. Plan on there being something wrong with whatever you get from them.

That's not always the case, I bought a full set of MP cassettes off lena, not only were they perfect, they were also factory sealed. And although some items I have bought have had issues (sloppy paint, missing pins) the figures without issues have outweighed the figures with issues, at least in my experience.

If they used real pictures of what they actually send out and/or had real descriptions of the issues with their items it wouldn't be a problem. What they are doing is using the same stock pics for all their auctions and claiming things are in a condition that they are not. You're lucky you got acceptable stuff.

I've bought a few things off of Lena so far and not had any major problems to speak of.

- Exclusive MP Sideswipe (no Autobot symbol on front bonnet) - only issue was the sticker sheet said "Tiger Tracks" not "Lambor".

- Generations Arcee - nothing noticeble in terms of issues.

- Generations Roadbuster - Paint apps on legs a little watery (kinda see through) but not really noticeable.

- Generations Chromia - Slight issue with one of her "wings" that sticks out a bit more than the other one

- Cloud Shockwave - nothing I have noticed so far

I just bought a few sheets of Whirl stickers off of them as well, I only wanted one, but was hedging my bets on the auctions and won 2 lots lol - I managed to misplace my sheet.

On the whole, I've been pretty pleased with them so far.

Lena81822 has been a little shy with the Transformers loveliness recently. I haven't seen much listed for a while now?
I hope the seller still has the factory contacts!

robotmel wrote::-?
Lena81822 has been a little shy with the Transformers loveliness recently. I haven't seen much listed for a while now?
I hope the seller still has the factory contacts!

The fact that the factories are in vietnam and no longer in china would explain the lack of new tfs for sale.

If anyone is curious, Lena is still around selling whatever was manufactured in china.

Like platinum predaking with free shipping:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Ha ... SwLN5Wl61D

They also have this off optimus which I cant identify. If anyone can, let us know:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Mo ... SwhcJWO4WH

william-james88 wrote:They also have this off optimus which I cant identify. If anyone can, let us know:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Mo ... SwhcJWO4WH

That is quite strange. At first I thought maybe an AoE Evolutions pack proto, but the partial painting is weird - No yellow eyes and the Autobot symbol on the roof/rifle. Then the unpainted clear blue front windows/quarterpanels despite the rest looking pretty finished? Guess I'll bid on one, but not too high. Never know if this is a proto for something canceled or to-be-released, but that's pure unbridled wild speculation and nothing more.

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:They also have this off optimus which I cant identify. If anyone can, let us know:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Mo ... SwhcJWO4WH

That is quite strange. At first I thought maybe an AoE Evolutions pack proto, but the partial painting is weird - No yellow eyes and the Autobot symbol on the roof/rifle. Then the unpainted clear blue front windows/quarterpanels despite the rest looking pretty finished? Guess I'll bid on one, but not too high. Never know if this is a proto for something canceled or to-be-released, but that's pure unbridled wild speculation and nothing more.

That painted roof really throw me off. Plus there is the fact that these have been selling there for months, so there are far too many to make this a proto. My guess is that this is a scrapped Takara store exclusive.

Lena had prototypes last time I was paying attention. I'd just assume that's what Weirdo Convoy there is.

shajaki wrote:Lena had prototypes last time I was paying attention. I'd just assume that's what Weirdo Convoy there is.

Lena did, but usually those prototypes had no paint. And while they had quite a bit, the amount they have of this optimus is unreal. They've been selling 5 a day for months. Also, those painted guns are throwing me off. They werent painted in the Hasbro release either.

Hi everyone,

this is my first message here, and I created this account specifically to report my disappointement about my first transaction with Lena.

I have been looking for a while to the cheap TFs Lena was selling, and I finally decided to order several masterpieces from her a few weeks ago (namely, the MP-15, M-16 (Frenzy, rumble, ravage and buzzsaw), and MP-5 Megatron).

Today I received the MP-5 (the others have been sent in a separate package I am still waiting), and I believe I should warn other people : I received a KO. It is quite obvious as the pictures in front and back of the box are highly blurry or pixelated (depending on wher you look at), and, most notably, the front pictures is inacurate when compared to a legit MP-5 (i.e.the picture of left leg is cut straight, while in the legit MP-5, the left leg picture follows a smooth transition with the red velvet background).

I have read here and there that so far, there is no MP-5 KO, but several ebayers are currently selling MP-5 KOs at cheap prices (below 100$). These KOs have the same blurry and inacurate pictures as the one I received from Lena.

It is highly disappointing because Lena is praised in almost every TF forum (That's why I purchased from her with confidence).

I am still waiting for my MP-15 & MP-16. Hopefully I already own a MP-15, I'll be able to check if these are also KOs or legit.

So please, double check what you receive from Lena.

I can provide pictures of my MP-5 box for those who need to verify their own.

Cheers,

Pilgrim

PS : sorry for my poor english, I am not a native english speaker (French)

Pilgrim76 wrote:Hi everyone,

this is my first message here, and I created this account specifically to report my disappointement about my first transaction with Lena.

I have been looking for a while to the cheap TFs Lena was selling, and I finally decided to order several masterpieces from her a few weeks ago (namely, the MP-15, M-16 (Frenzy, rumble, ravage and buzzsaw), and MP-5 Megatron).

Today I received the MP-5 (the others have been sent in a separate package I am still waiting), and I believe I should warn other people : I received a KO. It is quite obvious as the pictures in front and back of the box are highly blurry or pixelated (depending on wher you look at), and, most notably, the front pictures is inacurate when compared to a legit MP-5 (i.e.the picture of left leg is cut straight, while in the legit MP-5, the left leg picture follows a smooth transition with the red velvet background).

I have read here and there that so far, there is no MP-5 KO, but several ebayers are currently selling MP-5 KOs at cheap prices (below 100$). These KOs have the same blurry and inacurate pictures as the one I received from Lena.

It is highly disappointing because Lena is praised in almost every TF forum (That's why I purchased from her with confidence).

I am still waiting for my MP-15 & MP-16. Hopefully I already own a MP-15, I'll be able to check if these are also KOs or legit.

So please, double check what you receive from Lena.

I can provide pictures of my MP-5 box for those who need to verify their own.

Cheers,

Pilgrim

PS : sorry for my poor english, I am not a native english speaker (French)

First how sure are you it's a she?

2nd. Buyer beware. Lena is China based but sells from Singaporean proxy.

Btw, did he give you an ebay feedback? I don't know what it is with these Singaporean vendors at ebay. They never respond to your inquiry and NEVER send back any feedback. At least the ones from China are more gracious! They even replace the wrong stock without requiring you to return the wrong item.

Same with the Japanese, very gracious.

Next. Those items are KO. I don't even think they are even overruns. I remember that very crappy MP Clampdown full of QC issues. They are KO my friend.

Mp05, even it its "original"/official glory is a pain in the azz. I haven't transformed mine since I bought him. That's how fragile the Emperor of Destruction is.

Well... I expected some suspicion about my message (because it is my first one and because I complain about a "trusted" seller), but not to look like the bad guy in this problem...

First how sure are you it's a she?

Lena looks like a female name to me, but no, I am not SURE it is a she. I juste assume so.

2nd. Buyer beware. Lena is China based but sells from Singaporean proxy.

I usually purchase from trusted resellers. I finally decided to order from Lena after a long time "lurking" on several TF forums, where she/he was highly praised. Finally, my item was sent through Hong Kong post (here is the tracking number : RT324205801HK). So, unless HK post can be used from singapore, which is unlikely, it seems you are wrong about Lena systematically selling through singaporean proxies.

Btw, did he give you an ebay feedback? I don't know what it is with these Singaporean vendors at ebay. They never respond to your inquiry and NEVER send back any feedback. At least the ones from China are more gracious! They even replace the wrong stock without requiring you to return the wrong item.

No, no feedback yet. But I am not talking about "Singaporians" sellers, I am talking about Lena, which is actually responding to my emails but refuses to admit that she sells KO.

Next. Those items are KO. I don't even think they are even overruns. I remember that very crappy MP Clampdown full of QC issues. They are KO my friend.

Thanks, I know (now). But Lena has been selling (and continues to sell MP-5) as "brand new Takara MP-5"... Also, I have never seen any info about MP-5 being KOed. Yesterday, after receiving the box and seeing all the blurry and pixelated pictures, I started to suspect it was a KO, and after a quick search, found that other ebay sellers have listed KO MP-5s with the same front picture (but they are "honest" enough to mention it in the ad).

Fun fact : when you look at lena's ebay ad, the front box of MP-5 is never shown (and of course this is where the KO is VERY obvious).

Finally, you can have a look at the previous posts in this thread, and you will see that 95% (if not all) of the people posting here are satisfied buying from Lena, and that the received items are, according to the posts, legit. That's why I ordered with confidence.

Mp05, even it its "original"/official glory is a pain in the azz. I haven't transformed mine since I bought him. That's how fragile the Emperor of Destruction is.

Yup I know, I previously owned one (which was sold, now I regret it). I am (re) collecting MPs since they rebooted the line with MP-10, and MP-5 is still missing in my collection.

Long story short, I would like to warn others ordering from Lena (this seller : http://www.ebay.fr/usr/lena81822), that she (or he ) is selling bootlegs...

Regarding my problem I am about to open a paypal dispute (I tried to gently solve this by emails, but as she refuses to admit selling KOs, I now consider this as a scam). I just hope that the other MPs (the cassettes) are legit, which I doubt now...

Pilgrim76 wrote:Well... I expected some suspicion about my message (because it is my first one and because I complain about a "trusted" seller), but not to look like the bad guy in this problem...

First how sure are you it's a she?

Lena looks like a female name to me, but no, I am not SURE it is a she. I juste assume so.

2nd. Buyer beware. Lena is China based but sells from Singaporean proxy.

I usually purchase from trusted resellers. I finally decided to order from Lena after a long time "lurking" on several TF forums, where she/he was highly praised. Finally, my item was sent through Hong Kong post (here is the tracking number : RT324205801HK). So, unless HK post can be used from singapore, which is unlikely, it seems you are wrong about Lena systematically selling through singaporean proxies.

Btw, did he give you an ebay feedback? I don't know what it is with these Singaporean vendors at ebay. They never respond to your inquiry and NEVER send back any feedback. At least the ones from China are more gracious! They even replace the wrong stock without requiring you to return the wrong item.

No, no feedback yet. But I am not talking about "Singaporians" sellers, I am talking about Lena, which is actually responding to my emails but refuses to admit that she sells KO.

Next. Those items are KO. I don't even think they are even overruns. I remember that very crappy MP Clampdown full of QC issues. They are KO my friend.

Thanks, I know (now). But Lena has been selling (and continues to sell MP-5) as "brand new Takara MP-5"... Also, I have never seen any info about MP-5 being KOed. Yesterday, after receiving the box and seeing all the blurry and pixelated pictures, I started to suspect it was a KO, and after a quick search, found that other ebay sellers have listed KO MP-5s with the same front picture (but they are "honest" enough to mention it in the ad).

Fun fact : when you look at lena's ebay ad, the front box of MP-5 is never shown (and of course this is where the KO is VERY obvious).

Finally, you can have a look at the previous posts in this thread, and you will see that 95% (if not all) of the people posting here are satisfied buying from Lena, and that the received items are, according to the posts, legit. That's why I ordered with confidence.

Mp05, even it its "original"/official glory is a pain in the azz. I haven't transformed mine since I bought him. That's how fragile the Emperor of Destruction is.

Yup I know, I previously owned one (which was sold, now I regret it). I am (re) collecting MPs since they rebooted the line with MP-10, and MP-5 is still missing in my collection.

Long story short, I would like to warn others ordering from Lena (this seller : http://www.ebay.fr/usr/lena81822), that she (or he ) is selling bootlegs...

Regarding my problem I am about to open a paypal dispute (I tried to gently solve this by emails, but as she refuses to admit selling KOs, I now consider this as a scam). I just hope that the other MPs (the cassettes) are legit, which I doubt now...

Must be some misunderstanding due to language barriers.

First. I am not defending lena. No need to be paranoid mon ami

Second. I too purchased from lena. The item was sent from Singapore. Hence my query about Singaporeans being less than friendly ebay vendors. Never responded back from my inquiries.

Third. I received a TF stock from lena from Singapore. You got yours from China. So, he must either be based in either countries with a proxy fronting for him in the other.

Fourth. We are kind of in the same boat here. In my case, the product I received was okay average . I gave him a good feedback, he gave me ZILCH! You? You got a K.O.. But given the price ranges he sells, it's already 99.9% sure to be KO.

So buyer beware then.

In AliExpress, there is a vendor called Uncle Billy. Sells both KO and legit TF toys. Even 3rd party. He answers back inquiry and labels his products accurately if KO and original.And he is a big bad Chinese vendor . Get the irony? Chinese get a bad rep but most encounters(ebay) I have with them are good.

Thanks for your reply. Yes I assume, we are in the same boat here...

The thing is that I bid for a MP-5 (I did not purchase it through an "instant buy", as it was not available at the time), and I bid above 100$, close to the regular price for a genuine MP-5.

Obviously, I wouldn't have done this if I knew it was a KO (actually I wouldn't have bid at all).

Well anyway, if it can serve any purpose, I'll post here this evening pictures of my KO and the obvious differences with a genuine MP-5. I have never seen any comparisons on any forum or website, so it may help people in the future.

In the meantime, here is what I mean... these are (as far as I can tell) legit figures :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/MP-05-Masterpiec ... SwJSJXGS97
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/TAKARA-TOMY-TRAN ... Sw3mpXHRRB

And I received exactly the same item as the one below :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Brand-New-Transf ... SwSdZWflwf

You can see the differences... the most obvious is on the left leg which is "cut" straight on the KO while it smoothly fades away on the genuine one, also the general lack of (or very high) contrast depending on where you look (for example there is no grey reflect on the cannon), the highly pixelated red velvet, the blur on the hand and on the face etc...

Pilgrim76 wrote:Thanks for your reply. Yes I assume, we are in the same boat here...

The thing is that I bid for a MP-5 (I did not purchase it through an "instant buy", as it was not available at the time), and I bid above 100$, close to the regular price for a genuine MP-5.

Obviously, I wouldn't have done this if I knew it was a KO (actually I wouldn't have bid at all).

Well anyway, if it can serve any purpose, I'll post here this evening pictures of my KO and the obvious differences with a genuine MP-5. I have never seen any comparisons on any forum or website, so it may help people in the future.

In the meantime, here is what I mean... these are (as far as I can tell) legit figures :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/MP-05-Masterpiec ... SwJSJXGS97
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/TAKARA-TOMY-TRAN ... Sw3mpXHRRB

And I received exactly the same item as the one below :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Brand-New-Transf ... SwSdZWflwf

You can see the differences... the most obvious is on the left leg which is "cut" straight on the KO while it smoothly fades away on the genuine one, also the general lack of (or very high) contrast depending on where you look (for example there is no grey reflect on the cannon), the highly pixelated red velvet, the blur on the hand and on the face etc...

Lesson here is unless the vendor is honest, nearly 99.99% from China is KO. Except the legit sellers that is. I know it hurts that you paid almost the same price an an original. My friendly advice for you mon ami is to buy directly from Japan. There are 2ndary market stores in Japan that sell 100% legit TFs

Last I checked though, there's just 1 in stock at EU 180.00 equivalent. Not including shipping.

Well the loss will probably minimal as I expect to be covered in some way by paypal.

Also, I am, as every TF collector, very cautious about chinese sellers. I have some selected trustable chinese resellers (If I can give a name, seller Toyspark has never sent me a KO, although their packaging for large figures is a bit weak, and boxes sometime arrive damaged), and I hoped to add Lena as one of them based on the general consensus.

If anyone has alreday purchased a MP-5 from Lena, I would be glad to have a feedback on it (eg. a picture of the front) to compare with mine.

Pilgrim76 wrote:If anyone has alreday purchased a MP-5 from Lena, I would be glad to have a feedback on it (eg. a picture of the front) to compare with mine.

I did twice. These are factory rejects, there are no MP 05 KOs. This is the real deal but its still a crappy toy. So crappy that mine had a faulty leg. My box is blurry too, they all are I think. Here is a pic from seibertron:


Transformers Masterpiece Megatron (MP-05) Gallery

And you can tell if the casettes are fake by checking if yo see the ridges in the cardboard of the box.