Statues & Figures Thread - Any & All Game Related

[L1Slayer]

Originally Posted by Spect3r

You are checking prices for general public, companies have contracts, get way cheaper prices because of the amount they send.

Also, thats to Europe that is a much longer travel than from Japan to Canada (from where Mike is and all this $500 talk comes from)

Fair point on that. Canada and Australia seem to have insane quotes. As for why is beyond me. All I'm saying is, it's hardly on purpose.

Originally Posted by Spect3r

I read it now (sorry, was at work and cant stop reading/replying for many minutes at a time.
Thus values from P1 are insane, sorry to say.

No problem. And you are right on it being insane. So are the shipping prices in general. (including XM and Sideshow)

Originally Posted by Spect3r

Amazon is a cancer in the world, with their book banning and all, so i am sorry if i find it hard to have the slightest appreciation for them.
You are allowed to try to justify it but if is unexplainable then how can you?

As I said in the respective thread, I understand your view and I largely share it. But it contains many people that work their ass off and like the saying goes: "shit is always falling down".
I guess, we just have different viewing angles on this, but overall I agree that Amazon is a real cancer.

Originally Posted by Spect3r

They are not in the business for the past year or 2, they should have it figured it out by now, hell, just look at what companies like Nin Nin Game has, is not rocket science

To be honest, I don't know Nin Nin Games, but they look like a bigger retailer, selling all kinds of stuff. My best guess on this is, that they have way more quota with better conditions.
Edit: Nin Nin quotes me 215€ for a 1:4 P1 statue. And another one for 65€.
Don't know what to make out of that.

Originally Posted by Spect3r

I am not jumping ship, i am stating the obvious
How the hell can other companies do it and they after all this time, havent yet?
Specially, if resellers of their products can do it, how the hell dont they manage to?

Probably because resellers get them delivered in larger quantities.
Sideshow for example gets their stock via ship oversees. (That's also the reason why it takes 1-2 Months longer until retailers get their stock)
Edit: Their new US economy shipping is working similar afaik. Getting your order shipped out with various different other items from other companies via ship. Takes 1-2 Months, but costs only half and sometimes even less.

I think at this point we can agree on shipping prices being very high (too high) more often then not.
The reason why I went into this topic "more in depth" is just that some comments look like accusations, while I cannot really believe P1 would try to rip their customers off this way. They could come up with better methods. The last few comments made it pretty clear that no one is willing to buy, unless shipping prices go down. And I can admit, maybe Prime 1 can do better, but as I said before they seem to try. In the end these prices are sure as hell not earning them more money.