It looks like Chrome Gutter is being reissued soon anyways. I just looked on Taobao and most of the listings are for preorder deposits.
2 highly rated sellers appear to have it in stock though.

I'm copying this to the Taobao thread.
变形金刚 Gigapower HQ-03R GP嚎叫 机器恐龙 剑龙 电镀修正版-淘宝网
第三方 GIGAPOWER GP-HQ03R 机器恐龙 GP嚎叫 电镀版 预定-淘宝网

 

I'm finding some very cool stuff on Taobao. Thanks for posting about it. Is there a thread here that walks an American through the considerations of ordering there?

 

I hope BBTS or TCP gets new Gutter's. I just suck at the Taobao site. Even wot the help I got. I know, I suck.  

First I need to get my money back thru PayPal...ugh.

 

Good luck...apparently you need a Taoboa agent? Aliexpress is my pick.

 

They have nothing for sale on eBay UK, so I can't comment on that side of it... but I'd say around 90% of their feedback is for the same item that cost 99 cents!


The highest price item they've sold is $10.50.

So, in my opinion...

 

the seller has made its feedback private very suspicious that , was once a top rated seller now a top rated scammer shame they put up a good seller account and do that

 

regarding my dispute with online_sk something odd i have noticed in first pic of this listing it has a 30 day money back if you do not want the item and its not to your liking on another paragraph is after sales that if the item is faulty that the seller would pay for return of item in my case seller is refusing to do so and is doing everything to put me off 2nd pic is other terms and conditions 14 day money back and buyer pays return postage a difference between the 2 did the seller take this listing pics from a genuine listing i will bring this up with pay pal

 

I've used aliexpress many times, but their selection is smaller and prices higher than I can typically find on eBay for high-end collectibles.

 

From what I can see, only show z is on Ali. And his prices range, some stuff is priced very well, some stuff is 10-15 above baba. So I’ll stick with baba.

I may have to give taobao a shot. Those GP figs are big though, so I’m not certain of the final ship cost. I can’t find the shipping weight listed

 

Anyone have experience with eBay seller guofei8608038?

 

That question keeps coming up... if you do a search of this thread they have been mentioned several times.
While they haven't done anything wrong, as yet, their listings are very suspect... for example

 

I've opened a claim with him.
My order missed the estimated delivery date. It isn't unusual for an order from China (I live in Italy), but it's almost a month and my patience is over.
He has provided a tracking code that doesn't work and after I've opened the claim asking for a refund, he has updated the tracking info with the same code and asked me to be patient.
On the 24th I will be able to escalate it and believe me, I will.

Meanwhile another italian user has left a negative feedback: "ladrooooo" (thiefffff)

 

I've been keeping an eye on this one so I noticed that feedback, the first negative, I'm expecting more... in fact I've been expecting them to turn rogue for a long time, which is a shame as they have a lot of things I want at reasonable prices  

 

I looked on the main page for his name, it wasn't there but didn't search the thread.

Sorry to hear this but I appreciate you sharing, please keep us posted.

 

Filed a dispute and now I get to wait 10 days. Package has been sitting in San Francisco since Feb 8. No movement since. I hate rolling the dice with China sellers with few exceptions.

 

My Reximus Prime showed up from tjzhki123-4 today. I ordered it on Feb 2nd. Box was a bit smashed and the plastic clamshell was busted up, but the figure was fine.

 

He looks like another candidate to go rogue. You might have got your Reximus Prime..but I would bet almost anything that no one gets their FT Grinder figures from him. His quantity appears to be unlimited. That is how they all start, Grinder, Soar, Sever, Forager and Willis are the big the scammers. Low prices and unlimited quantities on these and you can pretty much figure they are scams..

 

Paypal claims against scammer
wangyanjun66 end in my favour and issues full refunds for each. Hope karma finds him for all of his scamming.

 

The same thing just happened too me. Ordered combiner hands and feet off of Wangpan986-1 the last part of January and nothing yet? He communicated saying that he had items in stock and quality ia good but i check the tracking number and all i get is label created and nothing ever shows up or updates. Now the listing of both items i bought had been taking down and being investigated by Ebay. Whatever happened tp honest people. And now because of this I've missed out on other combiner hands and feet.
I hope Ebay shuts this guy down for good!

 

They'll shut them down... but they'll just resurface with a new account, as well as keeping going for a while with the multiple accounts they probably already have