Emperor Galvatron wrote:I like how we're all in a nice circle jerk on this one but I'm gonna rant a little. How did this get delayed so long? It's not like they don't know the quantity they would need. It can't be much more than the number of Botcon registrations (of which there are a set number) plus 25% for members who don't go.
Or, take the club's past year membership number and add 10%, and have the things ready to ship BEFORE friggin' Botcon. It's the same timeline every year. It's not like there's some great mystery on the dates.
And, on top of that, I paid for my membership before they offered orders on Ramjet or Cheetor, but those have already gone out. Is my money worth less to them because I didn't buy those exclusives? I can't be the only one thinking this, am I?
It's just like the registration for BC itself or the other exclusive figures. Randomly throw the information out with no rhyme or reason and we as customers who pay for a service have to scrounge and listen to excuse after excuse. I enjoy the club, I do. I've been a member since day 1. I like the comics, the perks, and the figures. But it's been almost 7 years now, and these guys still don't have their **** together on basics like getting a known quantity figure out on time, or setting up preorders to guage interest on exclusive figures, or a decent registration window to Botcon.
I'm sorry about the rant, but damn. If I treatd my customers like this, I'd be out on my ass inside of a month.
End rant. Flame me if you want, I really don't care at this point.
PS My keyboard is a little messed up, so if there's a letter or two missing I apologize.
The public had until 3/31/11 to sign up for a year's membership in order to receive the club exclusive, Side Burn. Fun Pub had to wait at least until 4/1 to tally the count and make the order for these figures.
I believe it was 4/28 when Fun Pub announced preorders for the other 2 exclusives, Cheetor and Ramjet. It's possible that they already knew how many figures they wanted to have produced for each prior to 3/31 and finally got the quote on price and time necessary to produce each of these.
If you feel somewhat jaded, I can't help that. All I can say is that almost 3 months after the deadline for the member exclusive, it should be shipping out soon. I don't think that's too bad of a wait.
I would also state that Fun Pub does not know (or can produce) that magic number for each of their exclusives. Last year's Punch/Counterpunch sold out, and they went to work on a second batch - I don't believe SG Cyclonus had required a second run. And this year, that abrasion to sight Ramjet was offered and immediately sold out.
I think the reason the product run number becomes so difficult to tally is because of the secondary market. I ordered 1 each of the two figures offered this year, same as last year. There are those who I can only guess order multiples of a figure in hopes of reselling the limited edition at a higher rate. And there are probably some club members who, for one reason or another, will not even order 1 of each figure.
Reading into the Club's history (and look at their webstore), there were times that they ordered too many of a certain figure and it just didn't sell, so now they've lost money and are still sitting on product, even when offered at a reduced rate. I'm sure they are very attentive to this and would rather sell out of a production run than be forced to house excess of a figure for years and lose money.
So, just "hold your horses" and Side Burn will be delivered to you soon. And you didn't need to be flamed for voicing your opinion!
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