seti88 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 https://toyarena.com/collections/featured-preorders/products/bandai-dx-chogokin-macross-plus-yf-21-guld-goa-bowman-use-action-figure another shop..no experience with it.. Quote
borgified Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Did get stuff from Toyarena from 2011 to 2015, but have not dealt with them afterwards. Smaller store with a very limited amount of selection compared with TFsource/BBTS. Shipping might be possibly more than TFSource/BBTS, but who knows? Quote
orbitalharvest Posted January 18 Posted January 18 On 1/14/2024 at 8:29 PM, IIymij said: What are the chances that places like AmiAmi, Genki Hobby, HLJ, and others would re-open their orders at the same price? not sure if it was already mentioned. at jpn release, there's still a very very slim chance that there may be an extra or 2 available for direct purchase. most likely due to ppl cancelling because of unforeseen circumstances, or a shop may even hold a few back. but they'll go in a blink of an eye. the 3 shops you mentioned usually do not tho. but i have seen items open on ami ami or genki occasionally. sign up for notifications when an item becomes available, tho sometimes that process is slow and there's no guarantees. i just got a jpn 2nd release blitzway voltron from genki this way also, mandarake will have some too on release. again, most likely at that point with the elevated market value in both of these scenarios i suspect the 21 will go fast in any of these cases. there are tea leaves that indicate usually how hot a valk may be. this one felt pretty 🔥🔥🔥 and these will still go quickly as most will want the early jpn/asia release. good luck! Quote
betocc Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Yeserday I got this from Animota. I had never heard frrom them before the YF-21 PO, but I took the risk of ordering a couple of YF-21 from them and see what happens... well, this is what happened. https://animota.net/products/animota-e-pre4126 Dear XXXX, Hello, this is animota support. First of all, thank you for using animota. We are writing an e-mail about the product you ordered. We received a notification from the manufacturer regarding the following pre-order items that you recently ordered. "DX Chogokin "Macross Plus" YF-21 (Gard Gore Bowman machine)" Since orders for this product exceeded expectations in Japan and overseas, the product was sold by lottery at the last minute instead of by pre-order. Therefore, we are unable to guarantee that we can provide the product. Generally, we do not allow cancellations of pre-ordered items, but in this case, we will accept cancellations, and we would appreciate it if you could let us know. We are very sorry to inform you of this situation despite your order. We appreciate your understanding. Best regards, animota support Quote
IIymij Posted January 18 Posted January 18 4 hours ago, betocc said: Yeserday I got this from Animota. I had never heard frrom them before the YF-21 PO, but I took the risk of ordering a couple of YF-21 from them and see what happens... well, this is what happened. https://animota.net/products/animota-e-pre4126 Dear XXXX, Hello, this is animota support. First of all, thank you for using animota. We are writing an e-mail about the product you ordered. We received a notification from the manufacturer regarding the following pre-order items that you recently ordered. "DX Chogokin "Macross Plus" YF-21 (Gard Gore Bowman machine)" Since orders for this product exceeded expectations in Japan and overseas, the product was sold by lottery at the last minute instead of by pre-order. Therefore, we are unable to guarantee that we can provide the product. Generally, we do not allow cancellations of pre-ordered items, but in this case, we will accept cancellations, and we would appreciate it if you could let us know. We are very sorry to inform you of this situation despite your order. We appreciate your understanding. Best regards, animota support so not a WWM release anymore? Quote
Big s Posted January 18 Posted January 18 1 hour ago, IIymij said: so not a WWM release anymore? It’s definitely a wwm release. A lot of American stores still have it up for preorder. Just that it might be more of a gamble getting one from certain Japanese sites that may have oversold or that Bandai short changed them Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) The Amazon.com pre-order listing is up... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRK23S71/ So, Amazon's price pretty much matches the Crunchyroll Store and is about $14 cheaper than going thru BBTS. Nothing to write home about, but for those who missed out on pre-ordering elsewhere and are uncomfortable ordering from certain stores they are not familiar with (I am reminded of Nippon-Yasan stealing $200 from me), I guess Amazon is an option. Edited January 19 by Shizuka the Cat Quote
treatment Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRK23S71/ Don't forget to add your applicable State local sales or whatever tax... Edited January 19 by treatment Quote
no3Ljm Posted January 19 Posted January 19 16 minutes ago, treatment said: US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRK23S71/ *snip* Don't forget to add your applicable State local sales or whatever tax... You can get $50 off too if you get approved on their Amazon Visa Card in case you need one. Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) What?!?!? It says currently unavailable... out of stock (already?!) 13 mins ago? Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. How did you guys find the listing? I tried a search on Amazon.com and turned up nothing unless I use your URL link. I guess my search-fu is weak. Edited January 19 by wm cheng Quote
borgified Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) Either that Amazon US is not sending it up to Canada @wm cheng. Two listings for it in Canada is Sold Out at $450 CND and $560 CDN (at Navtio World and I knew these guys will jack the price up the A**) Edit: Also Unavailable on Amazon.ca for us Canucke Heads. Edited January 19 by borgified Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 3 minutes ago, borgified said: Either that Amazon US is not sending it up to Canada @wm cheng. Two listings for it in Canada is Sold Out at $450 CND and $560 CDN (at Navtio World and I knew these guys will jack the price up the A**) Oh! Are our US friends seeing that it's available or is it just me delivering to Canada? All the other WWM Tamashii stuff is available to ship up to Canada - just this YF-21 says its unavailable. Plus I can't find it via Amazon search, only through the link posted here. I would really like to use up my Amazon.com GCs. This is what I see (can any US friends confirm it is still available to US purchasers?) Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 1 minute ago, wm cheng said: Oh! Are our US friends seeing that it's available or is it just me delivering to Canada? All the other WWM Tamashii stuff is available to ship up to Canada - just this YF-21 says its unavailable. Plus I can't find it via Amazon search, only through the link posted here. I would really like to use up my Amazon.com GCs. This is what I see (can any US friends confirm it is still available to US purchasers?) Shows as availalbe for pre-order at Amazon US, as of 10 seconds ago. Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) Thanks! I just tried through a VPN (US Chicago) and changed the delivery address to my friend in Florida and it still gives me the Out of Stock / Unavailable message. Argh, what's going on? They just don't want to sell to just ME? I tried both Firefox and Chrome and even when not signed in with US Location setup and VPN through US Chicago it still Currently unavailable Edited January 19 by wm cheng Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) 4 minutes ago, wm cheng said: Thanks! I just tried through a VPN (US Chicago) and changed the delivery address to my friend in Florida and it still gives me the Out of Stock / Unavailable message. Argh, what's going on? They just don't want to sell to just ME? I tried both Firefox and Chrome and even when not signed in with US Location setup and VPN through US Chicago it still Currently unavailable I just refreshed and the Amazon US listing disappeared. Correction.... now shows as unavailable. Edited January 19 by Shizuka the Cat Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) Thanks @Shizuka the Cat Damn, it sold out in 13mins on Amazon.com? 🤬 I thought WWM was the new "civilized" way of paying more to order for us old "farts" that had enough of middle-of-the-night madness. I wonder if that's why I couldn't search for it - or it didn't show up in the search results, could this be a mistake early posting and another posting with proper stock will appear or am I just so desperate that I'm just grasping at straws. There are still stock of all the other WWM releases even to this day?! Edited January 19 by wm cheng Quote
treatment Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Usual scalper bots most likely hoovered up initial allocations. At US340 + taxes, just hope scalpers get permanently stuck with unsold inventory of it. As such, just wait a bit. It'll most likely come up avaiable again. Just don't buy 'em from scalpers and/or scalper-shops... Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Thanks @treatment I certainly hope they will come up and be available again. It's weird I can't search for them - how did you find the link in the first place? What was the delivery date for the Japan Pre-Orders? Was it June something? The Amazon ones seem to be initially Oct 1 and since I missed that, if they come on sale on Amazon again, it would be another batch probably even later than that? Quote
borgified Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Sent you a PM @wm cheng, this might be another option for you. Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 7 minutes ago, borgified said: Sent you a PM @wm cheng, this might be another option for you. Thanks @borgified - I'm really hoping for Amazon.com to use up my gift cards. Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 29 minutes ago, wm cheng said: Thanks @Shizuka the Cat Damn, it sold out in 13mins on Amazon.com? 🤬 I thought WWM was the new "civilized" way of paying more to order for us old "farts" that had enough of middle-of-the-night madness. I wonder if that's why I couldn't search for it - or it didn't show up in the search results, could this be a mistake early posting and another posting with proper stock will appear or am I just so desperate that I'm just grasping at straws. There are still stock of all the other WWM releases even to this day?! After the issue with my VF-25G Revival pre-order thru Amazon US (It is only now shipping, 4 months after release date, despite me pre-ordering), I no longer trust that Amazon can reliably acquire enough inventory to fulfill long-duration or open pre-order windows. Knowing that the YF-21 was going to be in high demand, I was religiously refreshing my Amazon search results page, so as to not miss the listing showing up. Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 3 minutes ago, Shizuka the Cat said: After the issue with my VF-25G Revival pre-order thru Amazon US (It is only now shipping, 4 months after release date, despite me pre-ordering), I no longer trust that Amazon can reliably acquire enough inventory to fulfill long-duration or open pre-order windows. Knowing that the YF-21 was going to be in high demand, I was religiously refreshing my Amazon search results page, so as to not miss the listing showing up. So you were able to search for it and it showed up in your search results? What were your search words? Were you able to order it through Amazon.com? Quote
sh9000 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Anybody use their Amazon rewards on the DX YF-21? What's the cheapest shipped price that somebody preordered one for? Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 54 minutes ago, wm cheng said: So you were able to search for it and it showed up in your search results? What were your search words? Were you able to order it through Amazon.com? I actually had 3 different searches prepared, because Amazon's search engine can be.... uhh... not great sometimes. My searches were: "DX Chogokin Macross YF-21" (sorted by Featured) "DX Chogokin Macross Plus YF-21" (sorted by Featured) "DX Chogokin Macross" (sorted by Newest Arrivals) I only discovered that Amazon began listing the YF-21 because it showed up on just 1 of my searches, namely "DX Chogokin Macross Plus YF-21". It did show up on the other 2 searches later on, but I think that was about 5 - 10 minutes later.... then stopped showing up altogether when it was no longer available. Quote
Slave IV Posted January 19 Posted January 19 1 hour ago, Shizuka the Cat said: After the issue with my VF-25G Revival pre-order thru Amazon US (It is only now shipping, 4 months after release date, despite me pre-ordering), I no longer trust that Amazon can reliably acquire enough inventory to fulfill long-duration or open pre-order windows. Knowing that the YF-21 was going to be in high demand, I was religiously refreshing my Amazon search results page, so as to not miss the listing showing up. Just to ease some of your worry, it typically takes domestic (US) shops 3 months after Japan release to get stock here, which corresponds to about how long it takes for a ferry to make it's way across the ocean and then you probably need to add domestic shipping to the shops and then their own inventory downtimes. So getting it 4 months after release date sounds perfectly normal. I personally wouldn't just because I'd rather save around $100 ordering direct from Japan and don't care about when I get it. Quote
wm cheng Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Thanks @Shizuka the Cat so it wasn't my Amazon Search-Fu was so weak, it was that I was too late - argh. I really hope it comes up on Amazon.com for sale again. Quote
Shizuka the Cat Posted January 19 Posted January 19 5 minutes ago, Slave IV said: Just to ease some of your worry, it typically takes domestic (US) shops 3 months after Japan release to get stock here, which corresponds to about how long it takes for a ferry to make it's way across the ocean and then you probably need to add domestic shipping to the shops and then their own inventory downtimes. So getting it 4 months after release date sounds perfectly normal. I personally wouldn't just because I'd rather save around $100 ordering direct from Japan and don't care about when I get it. I think that is why Amazon was showing a US expect to receive date of November 2023 vs Japan release date of September 2023. As such, my pre-order was still 2 months late from when Amazon originally said to expect it. Quote
Pontus Posted January 19 Posted January 19 I'm surprised it didn't come up in the Amazon listing for all the other DX WWM releases along with the YF-19 (only $217!) because they're all on the same listing. Maybe it will soon, so keep an eye out there too. I just pre-ordered the 171 there for $275 which is just shy of my maximum price for valks. I thought seriously about pre-ordering a second 19 to go with a DX 21, but I'm not paying $350 for a 21 when I have a perfectly good Yamato. It's funny though how prices change. Before Bandai first showed off the prototype 21, prices were insane for the Yamato. Afterwards, they came down to the $200 range for a bit. Now that the DX is getting an actual release and preorders, prices on the old Yamatos are back to being sky high again. No sense. Quote
no3Ljm Posted January 19 Posted January 19 I was contemplating earlier to place an order from Amazon as a backup after @treatment posted the link. Even thinking of opening another Amazon Visa card just to get that $50 off. Surprised to see it's now unavailable. Quote
IIymij Posted January 20 Posted January 20 On 1/15/2024 at 1:15 PM, MikeRoz said: 15% off at USAGS today with code MLK-15. That works out to $51 on their price of $339.99. https://www.usagundamstore.com/collections/new/products/macross-plus-dx-chogokin-yf-21-guld-goa-bowman-machine I will not add a PG Perfect Strike pre-order, I will not add a PG Perfect Strike pre-order, I will not add a PG Perfect Strike pre-order... @wm cheng not sure if this helps but you can you add it to cart via the USA Gundam store and with a discount Quote
wm cheng Posted January 20 Posted January 20 Thanks @IIymij - I'm hoping to use my Gift Cards for Amazon.com, but now I don't know if I have enough nerve to wait it out for the possibility it might come back to Amazon or just bite the bullet and order from USAGS and hard swallow the delivery, customs, brokerage & duties just to ease my mind that I'd get it. This is as bad as the middle-of-the-night madness except this lasts longer than the 1-5mins rush. Quote
sh9000 Posted January 20 Posted January 20 3 hours ago, sh9000 said: What's the cheapest shipped price that somebody preordered one for? $262.99 shipped. Quote
Lolicon Posted January 20 Posted January 20 7 minutes ago, jenius said: Lol, using gift certificates doesn't count does it? That's a difficult concept for some. Quote
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