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I've used it a few times for some items if the price difference is big enough because I usually don't care when my items arrive as long as they show up someday. Haven't had any issues so far and have a couple packages in route using that method right now. Hopefully those arrive fine as well so I can be totally confident about my SDF-1 arriving safely.

The 1/18 king! Nice pickups!

NP, not sure what the fuss was about...If I had all the Yamato V2s, I wouldn't get all the Arcadia releases either. As for pricing, I think the VF-2 is harder to compare since it's completely different. The Regult missile pod two pack was MSRP at only 400 yen more than two individual regular Regults. I see this as similar in comparison with existing super pack vf-1s so around 10,000 seems likely or hopefully not too much more. Anyways, they know we will all pay the price whatever it is.

I'm thinking/hoping under 10k.

Haha, wish I could say the same! I'm getting literally ruined by Bandai and Arcadia bombarding me from both sides and all my other collecting vices dusting off the scraps! But bring it all on I say!

Nice!

I'm sure everyone who shops with HLJ knows this but be sure to always check different combinations of items for shipping because it isn't always cheaper to combine everything.

Sounds like you let NY convert to usd? If you paid in yen, could have saved around $40.

And ordered at NY with shipping for less than HLJ without shipping again!

Nice! The VF-0S by Arcadia is the best Valk toy imo. I hope they do reissues with the same or better fixes on all of them too. That VF-19 I hear is not too shabby either but I don't own one.

Free upgrade?! Not a bad way to look at it.

Haha, irritating yeah. What's more irritating to me is since NY hasn't listed it yet, it could go up at any unknown time and it will probably sell out faster. But yeah, I don't think how many Arcadia has available directly at their site makes a difference for the other shops.

I'm sure there is a limited and allotted amount any other seller can have. Arcadia would need some way to sync and live monitor sales at every other shop otherwise.

Lol, I forgot about those. Hopefully they will attach those for us on the PF version

I definitely think it's nice and satisfying to do stuff yourself but my highly detailed modeling days are done for now. I spent way too much time doing it when I was younger and the time I know it would take me to do this these days is not worth the price I can just pay for a finished toy. Otherwise, I'd probably just go all out and go with one of the model kits if I wanted personal achievement satisfaction.

I have a lot of respect for those who have the time, patience and skill to do this themselves but time is money and in this case, spending the money seems like the better choice for me. Look forward to seeing pics of people's customs!

NP, I actually asked the same question here not long ago.

Yeah, pay up front is only for Tamashii exclusives at NY.

Nice way to use that discount! I was hoping they would give me a similar coupon for a recent mishap. Instead, they just gave me credit for a percentage of the item that was damaged.

I don't think any shop charges upfront for PF Arcadia releases except those who do for everything (like Anime-Export).

Let's say $20 an hour...it would take more than 6 hours to do that job so seems reasonable to me. Of course I'd rather pay less but this is Macross we're dealing with, lol.

Finally got through but had all kinds of issues getting the payment through. In the end, I just got it done using paypal but never had this issue before. Perhaps just the world giving me a scare regarding me getting the coveted Milia that has been eluding me my whole life (until I git the HMR but that doesn't count).

Hlj was down for me shortly, NY was up briefly but gone before I could get to the payment page and still gone for me. I've tried on several phones and computers that have always worked before. So weird.

Thanks! I've been trying to find that info everywhere and just found it in the email with the payment request. Figures that I've been checking the site constantly for the last week with no problems and the moment I need to pay the site goes down. I noticed HLJ is down too. I hope they get it together before the deadline.

I need to pay for my Milia and NY's site is down. Does anyone know when the actual time the cutoff is for their payment deadline dates?