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Two, maybe even three could be considered acceptable if you're getting them for your friends. But they allow you to buy 20 at a time.RodimusConvoy13 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Mkall wrote:And lo the division between the Club-Haves and the Club-Missed-Outs shall begin again for another year.
Congrats to all who managed to get theirs. This current method of selling these sickens me to no end. I hope there will be a change next year.
Every year people ask for a change and it never happens. What needs to happen is one group buys all the figures and then goes to the boards trying to sell them at a mark up. I say this every year but there's no need to own more than one of the figure, period. I don't care about your dio, fan-fic, or pictures. There's also no reason to do group orders for non-club members; there's a reason why it's called a CLUB exclusive. Now if you'll excuse me I'm looking into how much my kidney will go for on the black market; I missed out on the pre-orders.
You know, I'm sorry that you didn't get to order a figure, but if someone wants to have 2 of the same figure, or if they want to help a friend out and order one for them too, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. You missed out, it sucks, but it's not like you didn't know this figure was coming. They announced this figure quite a while back.
breastforce wrote:I bought 2 Runabouts but only because the postage costs are so high to the UK, and It's likely that I'll be hit with UK VAT as well. I am happy to divide the total cost (after customs) to myself in 2 and sell on one of the figures to a UK member. I will make £0.00 profit. It will still be cheaper for each of us than it would have been to buy the figure direct from TFCC. Again, this comes back to the huge postage charges.
In terms of how many figures should be purchasable? A cap of 3 of each figure would go a long way to stop scalpers, as you could reasonably argue that you would want 1 figure MIB, 1 for display and then 1 for a friend.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Every year we bring up the idea of a cap. A group not one person needs to say this at bot-con. I doubt anyone will though.
I totally agree. I think 2-3 figures per member is perfectly reasonable, even if the intent is to sell one later to recoup costs. I don't have an issue with that, I know how tight money can be and it's an expensive hobby. My issue is with those that buy in volume only to hold them until the price goes up, then sell them all for massive profits.breastforce wrote:In terms of how many figures should be purchasable? A cap of 3 of each figure would go a long way to stop scalpers, as you could reasonably argue that you would want 1 figure MIB, 1 for display and then 1 for a friend.
Marcdachamp wrote:Planned on getting Drift the whole time, but caved on Over-Run at the last minute. I'm a sap.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Primacron's Little Helper wrote:RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Primacron's Little Helper wrote:Got Him!!!!
I've got a question for other international people who've ordered the figure(s), I noticed on my email confirmation that it said I needed to send a fax of my credit card and photo ID if it was my first order. Really!? That seems really strange to me. Also, technically joining the club would have been my first order.
Would be really grateful if someone could clear that up for me.
It looks like that's for International Orders. Are you in the United States? If so, you don't need to do that. At least according to the confirmation I got.
Nope I'm in Europe, I've sent a email asking for confirmation - it said that they reserve the right to cancel the order so hopefully I'll get a couple of days grace if that's what's required.
That said, if I was buying almost anything else and a company asked me to fax my credit card and ID to them I think I'd laugh all the way to their competitors site.
harrogatebantam31 wrote:Primacron's Little Helper wrote:RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Primacron's Little Helper wrote:Got Him!!!!
I've got a question for other international people who've ordered the figure(s), I noticed on my email confirmation that it said I needed to send a fax of my credit card and photo ID if it was my first order. Really!? That seems really strange to me. Also, technically joining the club would have been my first order.
Would be really grateful if someone could clear that up for me.
It looks like that's for International Orders. Are you in the United States? If so, you don't need to do that. At least according to the confirmation I got.
Nope I'm in Europe, I've sent a email asking for confirmation - it said that they reserve the right to cancel the order so hopefully I'll get a couple of days grace if that's what's required.
That said, if I was buying almost anything else and a company asked me to fax my credit card and ID to them I think I'd laugh all the way to their competitors site.
Just to go back to the faxing of ID etc... for international collectors I have sent the Club an email explaining that I don't have access to a fax machine and asking them to clarify what other method I could use. I stated I would be a bit cheesed off if they just cancelled my order for this when they have had 3 years membership from me with no previous problems.
As of yet I have not had a response.
Dead Metal wrote:Dudes, a mate of mine has (hopefully) managed to grab a Runabout for me due to me not being in the club, you know why I don't join the club?
Reason number one, international membership is insane.
International shipping is insane.
Oh and you need a credit card to join and buy stuff, which I don't have and don't plan on owning any time soon.
Seriously, the pre-orders for these have been out for the entire week, sure most of it was wasted due to how incompetent the club is, but the fact still stands, they where available and you had time to get them. You didn't? Your own fault.
But I agree, Club members should be able to order one for themselves prior to the rest of the world. No idea how much that would do, due to the club always crashing and going down the crapper the day they go for sale.
Delicon wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Dudes, a mate of mine has (hopefully) managed to grab a Runabout for me due to me not being in the club, you know why I don't join the club?
Reason number one, international membership is insane.
International shipping is insane.
Oh and you need a credit card to join and buy stuff, which I don't have and don't plan on owning any time soon.
Seriously, the pre-orders for these have been out for the entire week, sure most of it was wasted due to how incompetent the club is, but the fact still stands, they where available and you had time to get them. You didn't? Your own fault.
But I agree, Club members should be able to order one for themselves prior to the rest of the world. No idea how much that would do, due to the club always crashing and going down the crapper the day they go for sale.
Here's why the system is broken. Some collectors have enough money to buy at will but many others have a more limited budget and you also never know when life is going to throw you more bills.
The club kinda operates on the theory of "Wait for us as long as we tell you to and stop complaining, even if that means weeks or months" while they expect the fanbase to operate on the theory of "24-36 hrs is plenty of time and any other purchases/bills don't matter as much as ours"
That's just not right.
Stormrider wrote:Delicon wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Dudes, a mate of mine has (hopefully) managed to grab a Runabout for me due to me not being in the club, you know why I don't join the club?
Reason number one, international membership is insane.
International shipping is insane.
Oh and you need a credit card to join and buy stuff, which I don't have and don't plan on owning any time soon.
Seriously, the pre-orders for these have been out for the entire week, sure most of it was wasted due to how incompetent the club is, but the fact still stands, they where available and you had time to get them. You didn't? Your own fault.
But I agree, Club members should be able to order one for themselves prior to the rest of the world. No idea how much that would do, due to the club always crashing and going down the crapper the day they go for sale.
Here's why the system is broken. Some collectors have enough money to buy at will but many others have a more limited budget and you also never know when life is going to throw you more bills.
The club kinda operates on the theory of "Wait for us as long as we tell you to and stop complaining, even if that means weeks or months" while they expect the fanbase to operate on the theory of "24-36 hrs is plenty of time and any other purchases/bills don't matter as much as ours"
That's just not right.
Don't fight each other. TFCC's whole system of preordering figures is flawed. They are the only online Transformers company (that I know) that still sells preorders this way. It's an all out frenzy, with lots of disappointments for people. It shouldn't be like this. There are much better ways to offer these figures so that everyone has the opportunity to buy them and TFCC has the opportunity to rake in even more profits. But they don't seem to be able to lead themselves in that direction.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Stormrider wrote:Don't fight each other. TFCC's whole system of preordering figures is flawed. They are the only online Transformers company (that I know) that still sells preorders this way. It's an all out frenzy, with lots of disappointments for people. It shouldn't be like this. There are much better ways to offer these figures so that everyone has the opportunity to buy them and TFCC has the opportunity to rake in even more profits. But they don't seem to be able to lead themselves in that direction.
Because they're fu*king pathetic, I don't know whats. I can't call them amateurs, because that would imply that they're willing to learn and actually care about what they do, but they don't.
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