spacemanoeuvres Posted November 24, 2017 Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) http://www.figinstock.com/figinstock-be-shutdown.html FigInStock To Be Shutdown After 7 years of operation, FigInStock will close its doors this year. As we try to figure how FigInStock can evolve, it became clear that the time we can allow to side projects like FigInstock is thin and do not allow us to make what FigInStock should be. FigInStock is now a little out of date (technically speaking), works on aging serveurs, needs a lot of love we can not give now, and sometimes requires a lot of money. Evolutions we had planned were pushed back from month to month, to become years. But, rather than talking about what it will become, let's talt about what FigInStock is (and soon was) : The project was created in July 2010, because my wife told me she was in pain on Mandarake products checking It was rebuild from scratch on may 2012 and attracted a lot of people More than 12.200 users are registered on FigInStock, thank you for using it, it loves you too 31.022 Mandarake alerts 26.676 Amiami pre-owned alerts 43.316 products for restocks alerts 10.940 products for price alerts 922.350.658 requests (we were closed to 1 billion !) More than 20 milion e-mails sent (!!!) 1 big server, at least 4 crawlers, working 24/7 for you As said, FigInStock will shut down at the end of the year. All data will be erased, data will not be given to any third party. We apologize for the sudden news and hope FigInStock helped you as hard as it can in its best years. Thank you for using FigInStock ! Edited November 24, 2017 by spacemanoeuvres Quote
seti88 Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 Awww shucks....someone savvy enough shld try and take over ..... It really is helpful for those harder to find items... Quote
sh9000 Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 That sucks. They were helpful to me at least a few times in securing orders. Quote
Sanity is Optional Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 Fore those desperate for a replacement: I've been using Distill Web Monitor plugin, and just leaving a computer running with it set up to send me email alerts. Quote
Negotiator Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 oh noooo that's how i got my last couple of valks. Rip Quote
Acteon Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 Nuts, I only learned about the service earlier this year (thanks to you lovely people) and it's really helped me pick things up I would otherwise have missed. A great shame, but as someone who has run a hobby site for 22 years I can totally understand how draining it can be. For all the people they've helped, I'm sure they'll be leaving with a ton of goodwill and gratitude. Quote
spacemanoeuvres Posted November 25, 2017 Author Posted November 25, 2017 Bummed about this news. FigInStock helped me nab a bunch of figures and I look forward to browsing my alerts everyday. Hopefully someone develops a similar site/service soon to fill the void. Quote
Slave IV Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 Heard about it but never bothered using it. Does this mean the playing field has been leveled?;) Quote
Kanedas Bike Posted November 25, 2017 Posted November 25, 2017 This flat out sucks, even for non-users of the site. Honestly I'm not sure why there weren't more people that used FIS, it was free, wasn't invitation-only or anything like that and was very easy to use. Hopefully someone else puts up a similar service. MW members should also realize that a lot of the 'heads-up' posts for hard to find items were put up by other members that got notifications from Fig-In-Stock. Oh well. Back to guessing when an item is available, wonky browser plug-ins and F5'ing the night and day away. -b. Quote
JetJockey Posted November 26, 2017 Posted November 26, 2017 I only heard about that site recently and never used it. I know there are Twitter things like that too where you can get updates for in stock items. I guess I'm old school though and just check the store sites myself. All this bots checking sites would end if companies decided to make enough for demand. So would the recent thing of running to Twitter and other so called social media sites to post how fast items sold out. I hate that. Quote
Scyla Posted November 26, 2017 Posted November 26, 2017 These are some sad news. I just missed a Fig in Stock notification for MP Sunstreaker but because I couldn't get my lazy ass moving I missed it. Quote
Sandman Posted November 27, 2017 Posted November 27, 2017 Is there no one who can take over this? Is he willing to pass along the source code? Quote
Graham Posted November 27, 2017 Posted November 27, 2017 Damn, that's a shame it's closing. Fig-In-Stock really helped me score several of the Delta DXs this past year. Quote
Valkyrie23 Posted November 28, 2017 Posted November 28, 2017 Damn this sucks. FIG definitely helped with a lot of these Bandai pre orders and post release stock over the years. Many thanks to them! Quote
eggy99 Posted November 28, 2017 Posted November 28, 2017 Sad that it is coming to an end. Will be a sorely missed resource. Quote
wm cheng Posted November 28, 2017 Posted November 28, 2017 Darnit! Just found out about it and started using it one toy ago. It will be missed. Quote
Sandman Posted December 30, 2017 Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) Call the time of death, Figinstock is gone. Edited December 30, 2017 by Sandman Quote
eXis10z Posted January 2, 2018 Posted January 2, 2018 Hopefully it will be back in another form by someone else. Quote
General Rasp Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 Such a shame Figinstock had to shut down. Any recommendations for a substitute? Quote
Sanity is Optional Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 Just now, General Rasp said: Such a shame Figinstock had to shut down. Any recommendations for a substitute? https://distill.io/ I have the plugin running on a computer I leave on, and set email alerts for anything I'm trying to catch (like Chogokin and Metal Composite figures). Quote
Bishop Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 Thanks for doing this for all these years! I appreciate all the efforts in maintaning something like this. It was really helpful to have and save me a lot of time. Quote
yman1437 Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 sorry for necrothreading....I have a quick a=question about using distill.io with hlj. even if I am logged on (account preference set to JPY), the website would keep switching the currency to Mexican, Candadian, resulting in a alert change when it's not. Any help? Thanks! Quote
Sanity is Optional Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Try setting it up to only scan certain portions of the website, you can tell it to ignore fields inside the area it scans as well (shows as a red box). Quote
yman1437 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 thanks for the reply. but what I am trying to monitor are actually the prices, which keeps switching currencies.... Quote
Sanity is Optional Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 1 hour ago, yman1437 said: thanks for the reply. but what I am trying to monitor are actually the prices, which keeps switching currencies.... Have a field for "must include" and stick in the currency symbol you want it to watch? Quote
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