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zodconvoy wrote:I received a smashed and mangled box from China today! A full 91 days after ordering (or more than double the Paypal refund limit and triple their estimated shipping time), I got my Reflectors. After this, I'm not dealing with them again no matter what they're calling themselves!

Good to hear! were the figs still in good condition?

Mkall wrote:Good to hear! were the figs still in good condition?

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Good for you! I'm glad you finally got your order.

The box looks like they parked a car on it for a week but the figures were in great shape, thank Primus. They were packed on all six sides with inch thick sheets of styrofoam and every single one was crushed to powder and chunks but they did their job well. Now all the figures need is sheet styrene internal reinforcement, primer, paint, sealer, and Con symbols and I can put it all behind me!

Fun fact: the Chinese postal tracking link has a captcha like passcode system and it saved all the ones I had previously entered. I had checked it 46 time on their site before I started using boxoh.com. And the Chinese site still says it's in China! They connect your tracking to Google Earth on Boxoh (which is why I use them) and according to them, it teleported from China to my doorstep with no stops inbetween.

zodconvoy wrote:I received a smashed and mangled box from China today! A full 91 days after ordering (or more than double the Paypal refund limit and triple their estimated shipping time), I got my Reflectors. After this, I'm not dealing with them again no matter what they're calling themselves!

Glad to hear that. As I've told you before, never say never when you're waiting for a package from China!

cylor wrote:Glad to hear that. As I've told you before, never say never when you're waiting for a package from China!

I've ordered from companies in China and southeast Asia before and I only ever had one other problem with how long something took. And even that took no where near as long as this did. It was ridiculous. My girlfriend and I have two theories on how it got here without going anywhere: either they dug a tunnel straight down through the Earth -or- the teleported it with the same quantum tunneler from Half-Life 2 that got Freeman and Alyx the Kliner's lab a month after they left.

zodconvoy wrote:*(...) My girlfriend and I have two theories on how it got here without going anywhere: either they dug a tunnel straight down through the Earth -or- the teleported it with the same quantum tunneler from Half-Life 2 that got Freeman and Alyx the Kliner's lab a month after they left.

Actually... there was 'only' one week's delay in Gordon Freeman and Alyx's teleportation back to Dr. Kleiner's lab...
So you can scatch that theory which leaves you with the tunnel dug straight down through the earth.