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News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:52 am

It seems like people are bidding awfully high for a pre-order of a figure not to be released for another 2 or 3 months. Do you think they realize this is a pre-order?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-2007-M ... dZViewItem

News Credits: 349 · by **Bed Bugs** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:19 am

I'm sure they don't, which makes it all the more painful, yet still funny. :lol:

News Credits: 5 · by **DARKAGEIS** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:11 am

well if people start complaining its there own fault, i scrolled breifly down and found the "this item is a preorder it is not out till may" staring me in the face.

by **Kalon** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:05 am

wow... i can see the flame war on e-bay already...

by **Bluebullet** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:39 am

*snicker* What dumbasses. What's funnier is that there is nothing they can do to get the seller punished by Ebay. It states that it is a preorder, and no matter how hard it is to find, they are still bound by a legal contract.

News Credits: 7 · by **High Command** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:57 am

Seller wrote:The movie comes out on July 4th, and these will be impossible to find after that. Lock your order in today!

Either that or they'll produce so many that they'll be keeping those shelves warm 'til Christmas.

Only time will tell.

by **Bluebullet** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:03 am

High Command wrote:
Seller wrote:The movie comes out on July 4th, and these will be impossible to find after that. Lock your order in today!

Either that or they'll produce so many that they'll be keeping those shelves warm 'til Christmas.

Only time will tell.

I'm leaning towards your second possibility.

News Credits: 2 · by **tacogrande** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:20 am

Actually I think there's an eBay policy where you can only do preorders 1 month into the future or something close to that. Probably due to the fact that the feedback will expire if you don't leave it after a certain time. They might have changed this policy since I last checked but I think that if the buyer wins and bitches it's a preorder they could probably win because you're no supposed to do preorders that far into the future.

Here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/pre-sale.html

If I was nice I would alert eBay of this auction to get it cancelled. But I'm not, and I think the seller should hose anyone that's got so much money that they can waste almost 3 times the original amount of the toy.
Leader prime, I'll see you on clearance for $10 just like my Primus and Unicron!

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:27 am

That's E-Bay for you, people go nuts without reading the description and then get suprised. This should be amusing to watch...

by **Gutter Bunny** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:25 am

100+ on a figure that will be readily available in months...crazy

News Credits: 349 · by **Bed Bugs** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:48 am

Gutter Bunny wrote:100+ on a figure that will be readily available in months...crazy

Yeah, but they won't even get the figure until a couple months now, that's the crazy part.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:10 pm

Wow spending over $100 on a $35-$40 toy that isnt even out yet. People need to read a little more on ebay. EBay should be notified. We need to stand up for thoses fans out there that dont pay atention because all they see is "movie prime get it now". Im sure prime will be hard to find the first few weeks of release but after that youll be able to get every movie figure there is. Either that or hasbro is makeing way to many figures and there wont be a problem finding them. Either way there is no need to pay over $100 on a movie prime preorder.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:47 pm

dum-dum-dum-duuuuuuumb

so many idiots out there that dont even look at what the auction says. thats how i got a SDCC MOTU figure dirt cheap

the pics showed an out of box figure, but the description said mib. nobody bid on it cuz all they was was the pic of a loose incomplete fig.

by **BingoBrown** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:16 pm

Bidding was ended by the seller on the item. Ebay might have forced him to end it, as I think they have a policy regarding preorder items that says they can only be sold 30-days prior to official release (or something along those lines). But I have no idea where I read that, so I may be full of crap.

News Credits: 2 · by **tacogrande** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:40 pm

BingoBrown wrote:Bidding was ended by the seller on the item. Ebay might have forced him to end it, as I think they have a policy regarding preorder items that says they can only be sold 30-days prior to official release (or something along those lines). But I have no idea where I read that, so I may be full of crap.

Yeah... already posted this. LEARN TO READ. I even gave a link.

(just messing with ya)

News Credits: 3 · by **loomdog32** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:16 am

keep this in mind next time you buy something from ebay using paypal...

You must ship the item to the buyer within 7 Days of receiving payment,

PayPal TOS
11. Seller Protection Policy.
11.3 Eligibility
section g

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm ... ive-policy

The old PayPal TOS said that the buyer had to recieve the item within 14 business day, I guess it changed to shipped within 7 days....