Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1

[Roy Focker]

Biggest flaw is no site will keep items in your cart.  At least keep it people's carts from more than 1 minute.

[Duymon]

Honestly I think Kakizaki will be easier. Luca's rvf-25 was so easy to get since the PO window was more like 45 seconds instead of 5.

[jenius]

made it to NY.. still no listing. To search immediately or not to search immediately... that is the question.

[Kanedas Bike]

Just now, Lolicon said:

I'm not going to be confident in my HLJ order until at least a week or two from now, when I don't receive a cancellation email during that time.

Of which they will blame on Bandai.

-b.

[505thAirborne]

7 minutes ago, mister_e said:

I did too, but I am not letting myself get too happy about it. Apparently, HLJ's new ordering system allows orders to go through that shouldn't and they have been cancelling orders recently. It hasn't happened to me yet personally, but given how tonight went I am hoping for the best but expecting the worst

This happened to me on one of the VF-31 DX PO nights, so I am hoping that I don't repeat that again.

[Bivouac010]

Well may pull the trigger on Nin-Nin, whenever it goes up.

[yman1437]

when nin-nin comes up, it's gonna be 36500 yen....you saw it here first

 

[PsYcHoDyNaMiX]

1 minute ago, Lolicon said:

I'm not going to be confident in my HLJ order until at least a week or two from now, when I don't receive a cancellation email during that time.

Right now I'm completely unsure of how HLJ handles their order numbers. On the confirmation screen following submitting my order I was given 000149388, but on the order number under my account shows 15095377. ????

[mamboeidos]

Just now, yman1437 said:

when nin-nin comes up, it's gonna be 36500 yen....you saw it here first

 

maybe for NY too n u saw it here first

[Duymon]

People should watch Anime Export and Bandaionline.

Both are very reliable, but are pay-up-front shops. Both are 100x more reliable than nin-nin

[mister_e]

1 minute ago, 505thAirborne said:

This happened to me on one of the VF-31 DX PO nights, so I am hoping that I don't repeat that again.

Man that sucks that it's already happened to you before. I'm crossing my fingers for both of that we were a few of the lucky ones this time

[Ignacio Ocamica]

1 minute ago, 505thAirborne said:

Thanks Ignacio, hopefully you were able to get one as well! 

Was checking out at HLJ, I selected paypal and got a message to contact the support team. Don't know if that means I was cart jacked. Then I selected credit card, and got the same message.

[mapendieck]

worst first time EVER!!!!

[505thAirborne]

7 minutes ago, mister_e said:

Man that sucks that it's already happened to you before. I'm crossing my fingers for both of that we were a few of the lucky ones this time

Thank you! Fingers crossed for both of us as well! 

[UN Spacy]

Keep trying folks.

A few months back I was able to nab a certain 31 DX from Ami two hours after preorders had closed.

[seti88]

YAHOO AUCTIONS ARE ALREADY LISTING AT 23K YEN STARTING POINTS.....

[rdrunner]

2 minutes ago, yman1437 said:

when nin-nin comes up, it's gonna be 36500 yen....you saw it here first

 

knowing how hard the PO was, I am pretty sure they will "price match" the scalpers on amazon.jp.  YJA has a bunch of auctions that opened up in the last half an hour, all for a target price of 30000 yen.

[mister_e]

2 minutes ago, PsYcHoDyNaMiX said:

Right now I'm completely unsure of how HLJ handles their order numbers. On the confirmation screen following submitting my order I was given 000149388, but on the order number under my account shows 15095377. ????

Double check the confirmation email, one of those numbers may be your customer ID and the other is probably the order ID.

[Lolicon]

FYI Bandai PO night mid-checkout is not the optimal time to be making changes to your account information. 

[rdrunner]

2 minutes ago, Duymon said:

People should watch Anime Export and Bandaionline.

Both are very reliable, but are pay-up-front shops. Both are 100x more reliable than nin-nin

Yes, thanks, will do.  They have both delivered on my POs before.

[nathans82]

Alright, have a good one, I'm going to bed.

[no3Ljm]

Just now, Lolicon said:

FYI Bandai PO night mid-checkout is not the optimal time to be making changes to your account information. 

Agreed. Or change the currency rate during checkout.

 

[yman1437]

congrats to those who got one......still striking out here and options dwindling down....

[Roy Focker]

Who else has to go to work tomorrow?

[mister_e]

I'm surprised this has still not gone up on Amazon yet. All the listings on there now are from third party sellers and they are all 34K or higher

[PsYcHoDyNaMiX]

1 minute ago, mister_e said:

Double check the confirmation email, one of those numbers may be your customer ID and the other is probably the order ID.

I checked and neither one is my customer ID. I also got two emails from HLJ now. The first is an "order acknowledgement" and the second email is an "order confirmation" (after it appeared on my recent orders on their site).

[Alphahorizon]

Just now, Roy Focker said:

Who else has to go to work tomorrow?

2 hours from now!

[Daedalus]

I do, but gonna keep up the fight lol

[moose]

So we are losing out to scalpers I would rather leave this hobby then give them my money.

 

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Just now, Roy Focker said:

Who else has to go to work tomorrow?

I have one hour and 15 minutes left to sleep!

[Bivouac010]

I do but I think I got a cold. heh

[spacemanoeuvres]

Have to look into one of those bots I guess 

 

;(

[Mechinyun]

Need to be up for work in 4 hours - gonna be a great monday!

[Duymon]

Got a report back from my bud in Japan. His wife got a preorder for the 1A at Yamada Denki. The shop only was able to get an alottment of 3 in the middle of bufu Gunma. They got the last one.......

 

His wife now knows how much all those DX chogokins cost.

Press "F" for his marital bliss.

[Shizuka the Cat]

FYI, I am continuing to watch AmazonJP, AmiAmi, HLJ, NY, CDJ. Anime-Export, MyKombini, Nin-Nin, and BandaiOnline.