[Mar-l-Aoutat]

I don't think P1 is having those insane shipping costs on purpose. FedEx is having insane shipping costs and P1 has to charge this price.

Of course they have no controll over customs duties. That's not their fault I understand. What I am really worried about is shipping not taxes.

What I think is dumb, is Prime 1 not offering any other option to Ship. Fedex is quick but it's expensive, it is THE most expensive option. How about DHL, EMS, or shipping via ship like their economy shipping to the US. That would help. But instead they keep dealing with fedex express and only them.


Sideshow, as a distributor, surely don't use Fedex to get their P1 pieces from Japan to their warehouse. I guess this stuff is shipped in containers via ship and takes months to arrive so they don't have to overpay.

Now there is still this thing about Sideshow taking a profit margin on the statues they sell. If P1 sells them their statues for 60% of the price, then they are probably not doing a lot of profit selling through Sideshow. I bet that's why they decided to open their international website. Sick of letting Sideshow take all the profit.

And if they sell us their stuff same price they sold to Sideshow (60% of the price or so) so we have cheaper prices OR reduce shipping costs at their own expense to get people to buy, then they are still not making a lot of profit from their own store, plus customers don't buy in bulk. So it ain't better for them than selling from Sideshow again.


So I guess that's why they are expensive as f.


If they want to make a fair profit in all of this and get people to buy they have no choice but offering different shipping options, the quick expensive ones and the slow, cheap ones, OR get warehouses in the US and EU, and these are two things they are working on currently.

Until then I am not buying from them, unless shipping is decent.

Shipping for a 1100 USD 1:3 batman to canada is 900 USD btw. How nice.