Titans Return Brainstorm re-issue.

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Hoffman, Jul 10, 2017.

  1. Hoffman

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    Not everybody is American.
     
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    well, i think everybody who wants him should get him.. though it makes me feel dumb for buying 5 to maybe make a few bucks on reselling them down the road.
     
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    YES! FINALLY! I wanted him since I first saw him, I was never able to get the Hasbro version for a resonable price, I'm soo happy this is happening!
     
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    What version is this?

    I bought mine from Walgreens online and imported here in our country months ago.

    If this is a release that our local hasbro toy distributor can carry like usual regular releases, then it kinda sucks from my end.
    I paid almost double the SRP (shipping cost included) for this figure so called Walgreens Exclusive then Hasbro will eventually release it under much cheaper SRP regular item.
    Bummer.

    Then Hasbro SHOULD release other Walgreens Exclusive from Marvel Legends under a regular release (Venom, Namor, etc...)
     
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    It's the walgreens version
     
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    Keep in mind, just because it's available, it doesn't mean that stores in your country/region are going to order it.
     
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    WHAT?!? They're not?! :lol 

    I'm not Japanese, but I still get the Japanese figures I really want. I was just saying if you really want one, they're not hard to come by. They're all over eBay if you want, and Walgreens.com still has it in stock (if you live in the US). It just seems weird to reissue something that's still readily available. In any case... It's a great toy. Everyone deserves to have one.
     
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    A quick search of ebay shows that any option would cost me $40-$50 CAD shipped. Retail in CAD would be $20-25. It's available sure...for twice what it would cost at retail. Buyers outside NA would likely have to pay even more on shipping.

    Again, a lot of stuff is readily available to Americans due to extremely low prices and shipping rates. I understand that this news is no big deal to US residents. To the rest of the world it might be.
     
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    Hooray TFW. Bit late to that party. He's been up on TFSource for days.

    I tell you, I hit the preorder button the moment I saw it. He never made it to Australian stores, and this time I am NOT missing out.
     
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    Good. Making it an exclusive sucked.

    I'm glad you want the rest of us to pay three-to-four times the amount that deluxes are worth in the US to get Brainstorm, but I bought a Legends Brainstorm for the same price as I could buy Hasbro's Brainstorm.

    @Hoffman hit the nail on the head - Americans have a lot more access to this stuff and it's still cheaper for all of you, so don't take for granted how hard/expensive some of these things can be for the rest of the world to get ahold of - it's frankly rude to assume that everyone is American and therefore everyone always has access to everything that you do. It's bad enough that the world is so American-centric making a lot of us elsewhere miss out on certain items. Please don't rub it in our faces (though I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but regardless, I felt the need to say it as a general statement).
     
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    Retail for a deluxe in Australia is $25, $30 if you're buying RID or Premiere Edition. The TFSource reissue, before shipping, is within that price range so I'm overjoyed.

    Ebay prices, on the other hand, are asking for $40 or even $50AUD. I don't know about you, but I don't believe many deluxes are worth that price. Maybe a Generations Warpath, WFC Optimus Prime or a Takara release is worth that price, but not a Deluxe.

    Furthermore, its a matter of principal. I refuse to support scalping in any shape or form. It sends a message to those scumbags that its okay to do it. I've seen how ugly the Amiibo scene got back in the day, and I do NOT want to see it happen to Transformers.
     
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    Yeah them Walgreens are real hard to find here in West Australia. I've tried looking in the big desert next door, but no luck. But I'm a slacker and probably just not looking hard enough.


    INDISPUTABLE FACT: Everybody on the entire planet is American.
    You, me, everybody, no exceptions.

    Try $60 + AUD Mr D.
    Last time I looked it was CHEAPER to buy the TAK one, or any of the various 3P ones (there was about $10 price diff at the time, with the highest TR Brainstorms at about $90 AUD which would be $69 USD.
     
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    Well, there are two options for you:

    1) petition your government to join the US

    2) kindly ask someone here to ship you one.

    I'd happily have done #2 while they were still in stores for you. Now he's on the website but to get free shipping you'd have to order two. If you want two of them (perhaps to trade to a fellow canadian) I'm sure someone would be happy to order them and then once they arrive slap a different shipping label on the box and send it off to you.
     
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    If Canadians would get their shipping prices under control, I'd be happy to sell stuff to Canadians again. Damn it, I can't even ship to a buddy 500 miles away in Quebec for under $30 anymore. There's no excuse for it costing almost triple what it costs for me to send the same package 3000 miles to California. Seriously, $12.75 to Beverly Hills versus $34.30 to Montreal?
     
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  16. Hoffman

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    How does shipping from the US to Canada reflect on Canadian shipping rates?

    Our shipping is definitely expensive. But after hearing a number of horror stories about shipping from US friends, maybe it's not a bad thing.
     
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    Funny thing, shipping from Germany abroad is almost laughable cheap if you don't require tracking.

    Shipping from the US to Germany is almost triple the price.
     
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    Yea I don't get it either. I see him often enough at Walgreens. Though $22 is an offensive price.
     
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    Getting the UK dropped SDCC set was cheaper then importing the wallgreen....
     
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    Because my assumption is that it's turned over to Canada Post upon crossing the border and that's where the bulk of the charge is coming from. It's apparently a flat rate the instant it enters Canada because Vancouver is the same $34 as Montreal.

    The fight with cross border sales used to be getting a payment type that a foreign bank would accept. Towards the end of my international buying days, almost nobody was accepting USPS money orders anymore. My bank wouldn't accept anything my buddy in Canada sent me either so we were stuck with bartering and there's a reason government-issued currency replaced bartering.

    Meanwhile, the Chinese pay $1 per ePacket to flood the market with literal knockoffs. Yet another one-way "free" trade deal subsidized by American taxpayers.
     
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