The Energon Pub

[spiritofcat]

After noticing that Xybertoys has free shipping to the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands, I emailed them to ask about Australia.
Here is the reply I received.

Thanks for the email enquiry.

We will also provide FREE Shipping to Australia as well.

For your next order with us, if you order 2 or more regular priced,
non-discounted items in the same order, you can get 10% off your order
total!
Just enter this coupon code when checking out to enjoy the discount: disc10

Please let me know if you have any other questions, and would be most glad
to help you.

Thank you once again, and we hope to serve you soon!!

-Aaron Tai

[i_amtrunks]

I must say, thats a rarity.

How's their stock SoC?

[spiritofcat]

From the quick look I've had, they seem fairly up to date with Japanese releases. Revoltech, Masterpiece, THS etc.
They've got most of the new stuff for preorder too. Music Label, Sports Label...
And most of the latest releases in Titaniums, Alt Ravage and Rumble, Classics Devastator and so on.

The prices are all in pounds, and when converted to US dollars (Basically just double the number) they come out a bit expensive, but you have to remember that that's all you're paying. There isn't any shipping to add to it.

I'll certainly be keeping an eye on them for any of my future online ordering needs.

[Leonardo]

The prices are all in pounds, and when converted to US dollars (Basically just double the number) they come out a bit expensive [...]

This is how we feel every time we walk into a shop. Our TFs are double the price of Americans'.

[spiritofcat]

Actually, I just checked their price for Classics Jetfire, 19.90 in pounds, comes out at about $48 in Aussie Dollars. I paid $45 for mine in the shops, so that's pretty good!

[i_amtrunks]

The prices are all in pounds, and when converted to US dollars (Basically just double the number) they come out a bit expensive [...]

This is how we feel every time we walk into a shop. Our TFs are double the price of Americans'.

Yeah we pay over double for our figures, considering that AU$1 buys US$0.80, they should only be a 1/5 more expensive. eg: A US$10 deluxe figure costs AU$28.

But those prices are very reasonable, and extra few dollars here and there is worth it really, considering how bad releases have been since Christmas.

[spiritofcat]

I got an email from BBTS today to tell me my Revoltech Megatron has arrived, so I decided to compare what I'm paying there to what I would pay at XyberToys.

When included in my order with other items I'm paying US$24.99 plus US$5.00, so US$29.99 total which translates according to xe.com as AU$36.00

If I wanted to order one individually, the postage is US$17.99 giving a total of US$42.98 or AU$51.50

If I bought him from XyberToys by himself for GBP17.90 with 'free' postage he comes out as only AU$43.00

So my conclusion is that for today I'm happy with my BBTS order because of the combined shipping, but in future I think I'll buy things individually from XyberToys.