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Post by Bleighdzes on Jan 8, 2005 22:48:07 GMT -5
I just saw a Crypt Curse on Ebay tonight. The good news is that it has a buy now option; the bad news is that the price is 29 dollars, plus 6 dollars shipping. I would have been all over it since I've only got one, but dang, 35 dollars for one figure? Rediculous to me, but for those of you who are desperate to complete your collection and may be missing this one, well,... good luck. Here's the link: cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=348&item=5948701191&rd=1
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Jan 8, 2005 22:50:07 GMT -5
For $35?! No way, please be patient and don't bid on that one folks.
~SS~
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Post by ProfessorSkull on Jan 9, 2005 0:00:32 GMT -5
I got one the other day at K Mart for 9 bucks... man, the money I could be making on eBay...
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Post by Bleighdzes on Jan 22, 2005 12:13:46 GMT -5
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Jan 22, 2005 12:47:44 GMT -5
No thanks, I don't buy from crappy online stores who pull the shortpacks from their just received stock and throw them on Ebay to the highest bidder instead of offering them at a descent price to their online toy store's loyal customers and then make up a trail of fabrications when questioned about it. The guy is a scalper and a liar. Not to mention he majorly overcharges for S&H on top of that.
~SS~
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Post by Secter on Jan 22, 2005 12:59:44 GMT -5
Bah, I use to buy from that place, they had the lowest prices online and fair shipping. Since then they have jacked their prices up to be as high as most other places online ( $1-2 over retail), and have now been putting more and more rare figures up on eBay without offering the "buy now" option, so you can't buy em instantly at their regular store prices.
Really a shame too, I definetly won't be buying from them again. Then again, it may not matter if things don't get better for Xevoz.[/b]
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Post by Heyyou on Jan 22, 2005 14:58:34 GMT -5
Do you suppose this means Hasbro is still sending wave 3 stock out? Or is this guy hording his shortpacks and selling them one at a time on Ebay?
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Post by Secter on Jan 22, 2005 15:16:05 GMT -5
I really have no clue. James said he ordered more wave 3 and didn't get them, but instead got wave 2 stuff shipped to him. Hasbro also said they didn't have any TW when I contacted them about mine that was missing parts. EE has in CK/PC, but nothing else from wave 3. For these reasons I really have no clue.
It would seem that Hasbro really doesn't have any boosters or deluxes left, but then this guy seems to have the full wave 3 assortment. I can't see Hasbro making more wave 3 when it took clearances to sell off most of the left overs(QS, SB), but who knows? Maybe he just had a few left over cases (hard to believe he had full wave 3 sets left over)? Maybe it was an order placed awhile ago he just recieved? I would be curious to find out if he really just got in these sets, or if they are left overs.[/b]
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Post by Ming on Jan 23, 2005 12:30:07 GMT -5
You know what, I've dealt with the guys that you are talking about twice now, and I really think you're all being overly harsh and dramatic about them. Every time I've dealt with them, they've been fantastic. And as far as shipping goes, it hasn't been high at all. Last thing I ordered from them he charged $5.75 for the shipping. And when I got the package, the postage label said "$5.75". How can you claim the shipping is so much when that's what the USPS charges? Don't get mad at the retailer, it's not his fault.
Also, as far as price goes, if they've jacked up their price to be as high as "most other places online", how can you complain? It's not like he's charging more. There is such a thing as competition. If your competition can get away with charging a higher price, then most likely you can get away with it also. The more profit you can make on something, the better.
I really don't think you guys are looking at this situation from a business perspective, no offense. The guy is not in business to succumb to your every whim. He's in business to make money. Do you know what would happen if he put the figures on his normal retail store? Someone (most likely not you because there's so many people out there who want these things) would buy them at a normal price, and you still wouldn't be able to find the figs, so you're back to square one. At least eBay gives everyone a fair shot at buying a limited stock.
And the only people you have to blame for stores putting these things up on eBay is yourselves for bidding for them! It's not the seller who drives the price up to $28. It's the frantic bidders who keep bidding. If no one bids on them, then they won't be up on eBay in the first place.
Look, I'm not trying to offend anyone or tell anyone what to do. If you don't want to shop somewhere for whatever reason, that's your own decision. I just don't find it fair to bash a business for acting just like a business should.
~Ming
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Post by Secter on Jan 23, 2005 13:21:07 GMT -5
Ehh, acting like a business should? I don't see EE trying to eBay off ANY of their rare figures when they had them in, nor BBTS, TIS, or any other retailer for that matter. If he wants to be an eBayer, that's fine, but then please don't offer have the figures at your "store". Please choose, either have the online store and offer the figures like other competing online retailers do, or be an eBay scalper. I really didn't mind him putting the Storm Wing on eBay, but when he started putting every rare he got in up it ticked me off.
And about the prices. I hate to see he can offer them for 7 and then all the sudden I am seeing 8 and 9 and TS jacked up two bucks all the sudden. You know why he did that too.. Targets and B&M retailers are running out of Xevoz and he saw an opportunity to take advantage of the demand, abliet a small one, but all the same. I do think all online places pretty much suck when it comes to prices on Xevoz, if he could offer them for 7 before then you know others can too, especially the bigger ones like EE. Whatever though, its their lose, they don't get my business.
I am not trying to be an @$$ here, but I have spent over $200 at D&S Toys and am a little ticked they would do what they are now for a quick buck. They were one of my favorite places to buy Xevoz for their low prices, but now they are just as high as anyone else and selling most of their hard to find figures on eBay. Imo that just moved them from being one of the best, to one of the worst out there. If I have to buy a figure for 8 bucks, I am gonna now choose EE over D&S, becuase with them I at least know they won' be scalping all their rares off. [/b]
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Jan 23, 2005 14:23:59 GMT -5
The guy charges $6 to ship a booster and that IS overcharging. I have never paid or gotten a USPS Xevoz booster that cost that much to send. In fact I've had several Xevoz toys in the mail at one time that cost less than that shipped.
Please stop with the lies that I'm to blame for his scalping too. The only Xevoz I bought from him in the past was a 2 pack that he also had on the site at the time. He was not keeping these items for Ebay selling only and the item was not hot scalper property. Since then, he's put ALL the HTF stuff straight to ebay because he was that the scalpers were making a killing on items like Curse, Storm, and Wraith. He's a greedy little grub.
Name one other online or mail order Xevoz retailer that does that? Does EE, BBTS, TIS or GSTG throw all or any of the rare figures they get on ebay just to grub a few extra dollars or do they cater to their returning regular customers by giving them a chance to get these HTF figures at a fair price without having to haggle over them? How would you like TRU, Wal Mart or Target to do the same? Why can't they? It's just making a buck right and that's all good right?
It's all about making money huh? Fine, he can make his slimey money scalping but he has also burnt bridges with me over it. I don't like the way he operates, I won't buy from him anymore and I have every right to say so. If you think my views for what I consider dirty selling practices are harsh, like his scalping and overcharging on shipping then good for you. Just don't expect me to fall in line because I feel he is unethical, he has lied to me via E-mail conversations, he is developing poor customer relations for his toy website, and his kind are bad for the hobby in general.
If he wants to be a toy retailer. Fine. A scalper? meh. If he wants to pretend to be both. No thanks....
~SS~
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Post by scifiguy on Jan 23, 2005 17:47:50 GMT -5
Well, I thought I should defend myself from some of these posts. You all have the right to your opinion on what I should do with our merchandise, but it all comes down to my right to do what we please with it. I am tired of SS calling me a liar. I made it quite clear to him, how we got our extra Storm Wings & Tomb Wraiths. They were leftovers we had available when I went to list a bunch of items on Ebay for a .10 listing day. I honestly had no idea of the current values at that time. I obviously found out and that is where you guys get mad. When I say leftovers, this is the part that ticks me off. The reason they were, is from customers who at the time ordered the items and then found them at retail so canceled their orders a day after placing them. They did not get put back into online inventory and I found them when I was looking for things to auction. I also opened some "deadbeat" order boxes when their credit card got declined and never followed through. Found 2 crypt curses we had sold awhile back that way. That is one of them on ebay right now. This is the kind of customer loyalty that makes our business difficult. How many of you have called an online store and asked if they had something in stock, but it was only because you couldn't buy it at target for $1 less. You had the rest of them. We get frequent calls like that. "Oh I have the rest, just need - fill in the blank-". They didn't buy the rest from us, but want us to save them one when we get them. We have many loyal customers and I have never not helped someone out when we could if they were a regular. I don't know who you are Sector, but if you were looking for something, all you needed to do was email us and I would have helped if we could get more in. I am actually currently working on getting some of the SW & Tomb cases in from overseas, but will probably have to sell them as combos with Quick Slinger, Shock Bez, etc to make it worthwhile. Which is tough when KB toys is giving them away. Another fun problem we have with Hasbro and their dumping. We are constantly trying to get new products in for our site. Ebay is a sideline, that once in awhile pays off. We give stuff away too on there, so please don't fault us for a few dollars once in awhile. We have sold all the items in question on our website knowing full well they would be hot later... Feel free to burn me in efigy(sp?) P.S. We have Cryo Katanna 2-packs on our site for the outrageous price of $18.99 and on Ebay. Thundar Shaman too. For those who are not on their high horses and would like to come down to reality, come on over. www.dnstoys.comP.S. As for shipping. Give me a break. Priority mail starts at 3.85 and any xevozs in a decent well packed box goes into the $4.75 arena or more if you are far way. Our shipping and handling is VERY reasonable. Some people just have to pregnant dog about everything.
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Post by Secter on Jan 23, 2005 18:15:49 GMT -5
Thank you for clearing that up Dave. I am sorry I was so hard and jumped the gun criticizing you, but with the crumy way Hasbro has distributed these things, and then to see a store (which I thought got wave 3 casses in and was scalping them all off, but as it turns out, I was totally wrong) selling on eBay made me a little irritable. If these figures really were left overs from people canceling orders and credit card declines then I truly am sorry.
Your store has always been my go to for Xevoz in the past over all other online retailers for your cheap prices and good selection. Again, I apologize for my criticism in the above post.[/b]
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Jan 23, 2005 18:41:30 GMT -5
$3.85 - $4.75 < $6.00 your auctions charge the later at as start off price. I guess you are an admitted pregnant and greedy dog. It's funny that you found one or two of these short pack remainders yet you have had a presence of these short pack type figures on ebay for weeks. Does it matter anyways? Why did you have to sell them that way instead of offering them to your customers? Do I believe you? No, you are scalping stock on ebay and the funny thing is it all appears to be rare HTF Xevoz stuff so no I do not. Not one of the other reputable online or direct from Hasbro B&M stores sinks to that. Yet you do. You overcharge on shipping and admitted to it. Yes, it may be only a buck or two but it's very easy for you to blow it off when it doesn't COME from your pocket but it sure as hell goes INTO it. You got caught with your hand in the cookie jar and you hate it. Tough stuff, I told you I would tell everyone I here about what you were doing when your auctions or store came up. You could have chosen to sell your stuff as an reputable online store but the greed got the best of you, dude. You went scalper. You cost yourself customers, deal with it. You made your fast cash for a "handful" of leftovers from desparate Xevoz newbies and cost yourself tons of orders over the long haul from guys like us who have hundreds of kits. IMO you just got what you deserved; there are better more upstanding people to get my future toy orders from online. Such as.... www.bigbadtoystore.com/stik_menu.aspwww.goodstufftogo.net/html/catalog1.asp?ID=261www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?theme=XevozThe Imagination Station: Toll free phone 1 (888) 305 - 2301 ask for James. He will do anything he can to help and is a fan himself. Not one of these guys will stoop to shilling their rare or HTF Xevoz figures on Ebay and all have comparable or better prices and service than D&S toys. ~SS~
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Post by scifiguy on Jan 23, 2005 19:38:37 GMT -5
Thanks Sector. I appreciate your understanding. If we do get some of the SW / Tomb Wraith from overseas and you need a set feel free to PM or email me and I'll tell you what the cost is after our shipping. They are a little higher since not direct from Hasbro and international shipping costs, but should be able to make a package for less then the $60+ just the two of them have been going for. All depends on if you need any of the extra sets that come in the cases. May have something really cool on the line too, but won't say until I know for sure.. Our last TW is on ebay right now. If Hasbro had just not shortpacked those, or at the very least under producted that assortment, it would be like Thundar Shaman, where you can get for a reasonable cost, like the rest. As it was we only got in one shipment of the Wave 3? and when we tried to re-order that mix was unavailable last year. We could have put them on our site, but then 1-2 people would have bought them (event with a limit of 2) and we would have made $6 on 2 Xevoz. I hope can't blame us for letting the market decide. -SS- I give up on. We are not communist. Free Market society. I wouldn't pay $40 for that toy. I'd just wait and get it later. Year from now, nobody will care. It was just fluke that I didn't put them back on our site first. I was trying to put a little bit of all the things we carry on .10 listing day to increase sales. After I saw the results, I'd have to be stupid to say "lets put the other 3 on the website for $8.99 each" As for -SS- (initials say it all) Well, frankly I need to thank you, actually. We have never had so much traffic from our website from this forum since you posted your mis-information campaign. Several rather large Xevoz orders of our so-called overpriced and outrageous shipping costs. Several people have remarked about how great our prices are and our service. It just goes to show you can not please everybody. You imply we have been selling many of these for weeks on Ebay. As I told you, and you seem to ignore. We had 4 of one and 3 of the other. That was what was left. One of each went up there right away, and we found that sold real well, so we listed the next pair and then got you whining at us. If you had done what another person on here did and asked what price we would sell one for, you might have gotten a better response, but you immediately started griping at me first. That person got one for way less then what we could have sold it for on Ebay, but more then what we would have wanted to sell it for on the store website. This goes back to my point above. Why should I cater to you when you don't support our store on even a minor basis. You don't seem to mind using Ebay yourself to sell overpriced toys or picking up bargains. Mr/Mrs Moores Ebay Name: "nicetocu" Pretty hypocritical I think. See below for more on his great support of our store in 2004. As for shipping, ever heard of handling (boxes, peanuts, etc). I don't think a $1 or sometimes less is a gouge. Some stores have flat rate shipping, but have higher prices on the toys. All the same in the end. We want people to see our fair toy prices and then pay what it costs to ship versus the other way around. Just a choice. We certainly do not gouge. $6.40 on a Xevoz (1.2lb box) to your zip is correct ($5.40 for actual shipping & $1 for handling). Look it up and quit making general false statements. www.dnstoys.com ( You're IN STOCK toy store, instead of constantly out of stock, like some listed above) Just a follow up to show you what a great customer -SS- has been and how we overcharged him on shipping. He calls me a liar... Hmmm Below is the many orders he placed with us in 2004.... Glad I don't count on him to pay the bills... ************************************** Customer: L.Moore Texarkana AR Date: 12/15/2004 Shipped Via: Priority Mail Tracking Number: Actual Shipping Cost: $5.40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01128 1 Galactic Heroes Skiff Guard, Lando, Gamor, Jawas $23.99 $23.99 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plus Tax: $0.00 Plus Postage: $5.90 Total: $29.89 *** Never paid for this order... later got it for cheap on Ebay.... Order Number : 12390 Placed : 07/11/2004 19:42:45 EDT Ship To: Bill To: S. moore S. moore ****************** ******************** Texarkana AR 71854 Texarkana AR 71854 US US Code Name Quantity Price/Ea. Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85512 Transcorcher and Street Punk 1 $18.99 $18.99 Shipping: 1. DHL Ground - Continental US Only (5-7 days): $7.38 Sales Tax: $0.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total: $26.37 Customer: L.Moore ************** Texarkana AR 71854 Date: 8/24/2004 Shipped Via: Priority Mail Tracking Number: Actual Shipping Cost: $7.85 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85512 1 Xevoz Transcorcher and Street Punk $13.39 $13.39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plus Tax: $0.00 Plus Postage: $8.85 Total: $22.24
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