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Post by madkilla on Feb 24, 2014 19:49:08 GMT -5
Well my Poseidon showed up from goodshipped. No bonus weapons but the figure is dead mint, which is a joyous change of pace for me. There are tiny flaws in the paint but nothing glaring. The first three getters releases were nice, these G getters are just another level. So looking forward to the shin getter 1 & 2, hopefully those purchases will be drama free.
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Post by Robot Lover/Fighter on Feb 24, 2014 21:34:02 GMT -5
Looking good madkilla, congrats on your score...
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Post by surlyj on Feb 25, 2014 3:04:18 GMT -5
Awesome. My liger and posiedon are in customs. Imagine I'll have them wednesday. Goodshipped check them both and said there were no flaws or paint defects, so we'll see. Fingers crossed.
FP Intimidator looks great too. I sold my two leg cars and decided not to get it, but he looks great.
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Post by madkilla on Feb 25, 2014 8:30:06 GMT -5
Thanks, Intimidator ended up being pretty awesome. I almost sold the first two limbs because i wasnt that impressed. They ended up looking good as shin guards.
I just read your post on TFW2005. Are you thinking about getting out of the transformers game? I did for quite a while. The new MPs and some third party got me back into them.
Poseidon actually gives the other two a run for their money. This set is really incredible. Strangely I prefer the regular legs over the treaded legs. He is just a bit taller and looks more imposing.
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Post by surlyj on Feb 25, 2014 14:26:57 GMT -5
I definitely plan to use the real legs and mot the treads. I never cared for the treads on Poseidon. To me his classic was the lift up chest whirlwird more than the treaded legs.
Yeah, I kind of am getting out of Transformers. I go back and forth, but of all the things I've bought and then sold, TF is the highest volume. I sold everything that wasn't an MP or large 3rd party bot a while ago and sold half my MPs a few weeks ago. I don't know. They are great, but the transforming stuff is really just for fun, as the only one I've ever really displayed in both modes is grimlock. Sometimes I'll turn Optimus or Sideswipe into alt mode and go "... Ok, great... A car". I like robots, not utilitarian vehicles. Never been a car person of any sort, really.
One of my favorite TFs is Maketoys Yellow Giant, and even he I haven't transformed once since completing the set, and if I ever do, it will just be back to individual bot modes. I have no desire to have a dump truck or a crane sitting on my shelf.
I was hesitant to get into high end stuff like fewture, but after getting dragon, I realized that persinally, i would rather have one $500-800 piece that absolutely blows my mind than a $200 piece that is just cool. Sure, ultimately I'd like to have them all, but I'm not in a position to buy tht ultimetal without selling some stuff first, and the MPs would be the first to go and make the most sense to me. One day I may buy them back after I get a house and have ample more space, but for now, I'd rather go with less and more, and I also firrmly believe that this Ultimetal will be going for $2k in a year's time. If the QC and quality is there, which I now believe it will be because of the Gette G team, this Optimus Prime will be one of the grail pieces for all adult transformer fans, despite the fact that it doesn't transform.
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Post by gokinrob on Feb 26, 2014 8:46:30 GMT -5
I received my Poseuden from TnT yesterday - I must say, I'm surprised. I only ordered the Liger & Poseiden from them, and I got the tomahawk-thing bonus. A pleasant surprise.
So I guess there's no rhyme & reason as to who does & doesn't get the gift set item.
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Post by Robot Lover/Fighter on Feb 26, 2014 19:41:08 GMT -5
Indeed, it seems like some re-sellers never got the memo ... Congrats on your bonus gokinrob ...
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Post by mecha-mania on Feb 27, 2014 2:23:09 GMT -5
I received my Poseuden from TnT yesterday - I must say, I'm surprised. I only ordered the Liger & Poseiden from them, and I got the tomahawk-thing bonus. A pleasant surprise. So I guess there's no rhyme & reason as to who does & doesn't get the gift set item. Clearly, some retailers are trying to pull a fast one by taking out the gift set. So i suppose this experience tells us who to preorder from and who not to in the future.
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Post by surlyj on Feb 27, 2014 4:15:52 GMT -5
I received my Poseuden from TnT yesterday - I must say, I'm surprised. I only ordered the Liger & Poseiden from them, and I got the tomahawk-thing bonus. A pleasant surprise. So I guess there's no rhyme & reason as to who does & doesn't get the gift set item. Clearly, some retailers are trying to pull a fast one by taking out the gift set. So i suppose this experience tells us who to preorder from and who not to in the future. Read back the last page or so. The evidence does not support your claim that retailers are somehow being dishonest or intentionally removing the gift set.
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Post by mecha-mania on Feb 28, 2014 1:31:18 GMT -5
Clearly, some retailers are trying to pull a fast one by taking out the gift set. So i suppose this experience tells us who to preorder from and who not to in the future. Read back the last page or so. The evidence does not support your claim that retailers are somehow being dishonest or intentionally removing the gift set. One poster had mentioned (several pages back) he got his weapon set even though he ordered only poseidon, while madkilla (on this page) mentioned he didnt, so why the double standards? If its not the fault of retailers, then how did this problem come about? Madkilla@ just curious, does the box of your poseidon comes with an empty slot meant for the weapon set? The reason i am asking this is to check if there is a different packaging for boxes that does not include the bonus weapon.
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Post by surlyj on Feb 28, 2014 1:56:47 GMT -5
Read back the last page or so. The evidence does not support your claim that retailers are somehow being dishonest or intentionally removing the gift set. One poster had mentioned (several pages back) he got his weapon set even though he ordered only poseidon, while madkilla (on this page) mentioned he didnt, so why the double standards? If its not the fault of retailers, then how did this problem come about? Madkilla@ just curious, does the box of your poseidon comes with an empty slot meant for the weapon set? The reason i am asking this is to check if there is a different packaging for boxes that does not include the bonus weapon. Well, people who ordered a single poseidon and didn't get the weapon set (from bbts I believe), said their box wasn't opened and it was factory sealed from fewture, meaning bbts couldn't have removed the weapons. What it seems like it happening, is that fewture shipped out poseidon two ways, one with and one without, based on how the retailers ordered their figures. If the retailer ordered a set, then sold that set as individual pieces, those poseidons would have the weapons. However if the retailer ordered their poseidons to be sold as single units as just single units, then they were shipped by fewture without the weapons. That is the most logical sense to make of this. If retailers are removing weapons from poseidons because fewture shipped them all with weapons, then it is fewture who is at fault here, for claiming the weapons to be exclusive, but just packing all the figures with them anyways. I doubt that is what is happening and based on people getting factory sealed poseidons without the weapons, what I outlined is the only real logical sense to make of this. Make sense? as for my liger and poseidon, they have been in customs since Monday!!! I'm getting annoyed and worried that they are being tampered with. Some asshole inspection officer better not be cutting haphazardly into my boxes and messing with myridiculously expensive gokins!
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Post by mecha-mania on Feb 28, 2014 2:14:53 GMT -5
One poster had mentioned (several pages back) he got his weapon set even though he ordered only poseidon, while madkilla (on this page) mentioned he didnt, so why the double standards? If its not the fault of retailers, then how did this problem come about? Madkilla@ just curious, does the box of your poseidon comes with an empty slot meant for the weapon set? The reason i am asking this is to check if there is a different packaging for boxes that does not include the bonus weapon. Well, people who ordered a single poseidon and didn't get the weapon set (from bbts I believe), said their box wasn't opened and it was factory sealed from fewture, meaning bbts couldn't have removed the weapons. What it seems like it happening, is that fewture shipped out poseidon two ways, one with and one without, based on how the retailers ordered their figures. If the retailer ordered a set, then sold that set as individual pieces, those poseidons would have the weapons. However if the retailer ordered their poseidons to be sold as single units as just single units, then they were shipped by fewture without the weapons. That is the most logical sense to make of this. If retailers are removing weapons from poseidons because fewture shipped them all with weapons, then it is fewture who is at fault here, for claiming the weapons to be exclusive, but just packing all the figures with them anyways. I doubt that is what is happening and based on people getting factory sealed poseidons without the weapons, what I outlined is the only real logical sense to make of this. Make sense? as for my liger and poseidon, they have been in customs since Monday!!! I'm getting annoyed and worried that they are being tampered with. Some asshole inspection officer better not be cutting haphazardly into my boxes and messing with myridiculously expensive gokins! Yes, it does makes sense, but really complicated, fewture might have to mark the poseidon boxes with/without the bonus weapons especially when both type of boxes are exactly the same size. Hope that you get your liger and poseidon soon. I hate it when my stuff get held up for too long in customs, not only the delay is annoying, my local customs and post office tend to mishandle my packages, especially large boxes.
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Post by surlyj on Feb 28, 2014 14:17:57 GMT -5
Hooray! Liger and Poseidon are waiting for me at my mailing address
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Post by surlyj on Mar 1, 2014 1:06:39 GMT -5
Got my fewture liger and poseidon!!! They are frigging amazing. Only two small flaws between them. One open hand on poseidon is scratched up pretty badly on the back. Hopefully goodshipped can get a replacement for me since it's a small part. The bigger bummer is one small black scratch on the right blue chest panel of liger. Not really noticeable at a distance, but definitely noticeable up close. Nothing i can do about that short of paying to have it shipped back to china, which isn't happening. Just wish goodshipped had caught it since I asked him to check the figure over for flaws first. But it is pretty small, hairline. Couple of other very small paint imperfections on other parts of both, but only a couple and nothing I would have ever noticed if I wasn't scrutinizing every inch. And tomorrow I go to ikea in the morning to pick up the detolf my fiance was gonna buy me for xmas but couldn't find in stock, so I can finally open up dragon and display them all on Sunday to ring in my bday on monday Very excited!
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Post by Robot Lover/Fighter on Mar 1, 2014 16:14:50 GMT -5
Wohoo!!! congrats surlyj,im glad it all worked out and advanced happy bday to you on monday...
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Post by krimpov on Mar 3, 2014 2:23:09 GMT -5
Good for you. I bet they're awesome. (Honestly. Even though it may come across as sourpuss sarcasm, it's not.)
I finally managed to pay for Nippon-Yasan's ransom more than a week ago (22/02). The order was still open.
On Friday, I e-mailed them about this. The order was still open.
Today, instead of a reply, I got a store e-mail telling me that my order had just been cancelled. Got a refund for the pre-order payment, but had to write them again to get them to refund me those extra shipping fees.
In the end, my wallet didn't suffer much. I will lose ¥4,650 if Paypal refuses to waive those fees. Add to this whatever more I'll have to pay to get my hands on that trio later down the road (good thing I don't care much for the bonus). But this whole ordeal was enough to convince me not to deal with them again unless I'm desperate. The recent reputation they got is not an exaggeration. Just Google them.
PS: I just checked, they got all three in stock at 37,000¥ each (up from 36,200¥). If that Poseidon was the one I pre-ordered, it should include the bonus tomahawks. Try your luck if you're willing to deal with them. I'm not.
PS2: Nice surprise, Paypal did reverse the transaction fees. Ended up losing about $30 due to currency fluctuations and conversion fees - mostly the latter.
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Post by gokinrob on Mar 5, 2014 8:20:35 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your issues with NY. I will definitely NOT ever buy from them.
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Post by chachipower on Mar 5, 2014 17:57:29 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your issues with NY. I will definitely NOT ever buy from them. My first order from them was Danguard wbich I never got. They djdint email me to say to pay for preorder. They just left order open til I realized everyone was getting theirs so I paid and received processing email. Over a week later, I still hadnt received order status so I emailed back. They responded by saying ghey are cancelling order even though they had them in stock. I said it was my first time ordering and whatnot. They didnt care. Then they decide they dont need to refund my money. They cancelled and kept payment until I evebtually filed complaj t with paypal. i had already ordered my 3 getters so I kept the orders. That went soso because they wouldnt respond to emails, they wojld only contact me to tell me I owed more for shippjng. Not happy with overall experience. Never again. I stick to the big 3. Bbts, HLJ and amiami
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Post by surlyj on Mar 6, 2014 2:55:14 GMT -5
Sorry you guys are having and had so much trouble with nippon yissan. First time I saw that site I felt a little sketchy about it. I also generally stick to the big 3, but have been very happy with goodshipped so far. Just ordered the Um-01 ultimetal optimus prime from him as well, because apparently these three insanely expensive robots weren't enough.
I finally got my extra detolf setup and have unboxed and set up dragon and liger and holy hell are they amazing to handle. I'm a little nuts and bought some jewelers gloves to handle them. Really paranoid about getting my oily hands all over them. The paint is too beautiful to risk marring.
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Post by mecha-mania on Mar 6, 2014 3:06:53 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your issues with NY. I will definitely NOT ever buy from them. My first order from them was Danguard wbich I never got. They djdint email me to say to pay for preorder. They just left order open til I realized everyone was getting theirs so I paid and received processing email. Over a week later, I still hadnt received order status so I emailed back. They responded by saying ghey are cancelling order even though they had them in stock. I said it was my first time ordering and whatnot. They didnt care. Then they decide they dont need to refund my money. They cancelled and kept payment until I evebtually filed complaj t with paypal. i had already ordered my 3 getters so I kept the orders. That went soso because they wouldnt respond to emails, they wojld only contact me to tell me I owed more for shippjng. Not happy with overall experience. Never again. I stick to the big 3. Bbts, HLJ and amiami exact same problem happened to me when i preordered danguard ace from NY. but other than that, my experience with them have been excellent.
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