Buying Transformers on Taobao

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by botfan, Feb 25, 2017.

  1. solskjaer

    solskjaer Well-Known Member

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    Wow...

    In the meantime, FT deleted all its weibo posts. Not looking good.
     
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    Fanstoys website says something in the other direction
     
  3. minstral

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    They also communicate a lot via their Weibo posts, announcing preorders. They might be going below the line and not listing preorders. Seems like it's getting unreliable with so few FT preorders maybe LBP are doing away with them? Being a popular seller maybe they have a lot of Preorders they feel they can't fulfill?

    I've had no word about any FT cancellations from other sellers I use.
     
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    Yeah. The issue is most likely with the seller LBP & their ability to carry most 3P items and not with FT and 3P.
     
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    Has anyone actually been messaged by LBP about their preorders and/or had their money refunded? Most of mine were with them and I have not had a word.
     
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    They refunded all my preorders for Fans Toys stuff.
     
  7. minstral

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    I have a few POs with them, for FT and other companies. Touch wood but nothing from them about cancellations for me. Maybe it's a cut off thing? Depending on when people made their pre orders? Based on the product? I don't have any POs for stunticons or aerialbots with them and all of mine are with the grey render characters.
     
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    LBP has not canceled my Fanstoys pre-orders yet, but at the same time none of the listings exist anymore. I asked Superbuy to ask LBP what was going on and the response I got from SB was replenishment was not due yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't think SB actually contacted LBP, think they misunderstood what I was asking. But no canceled orders as of yet. So fingers crossed they just took the listings down and our waiting for the heat to die down.

    Maybe they canceled orders like Diecasts17's because they knew it was to foreigners. Superbuy would appear to be a Chinese purchaser to LBP. Otherwise no clue what's going.
     
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  9. solskjaer

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    No, they cancelled all FT preorder. It doesn’t matter where you are. You should try to figure out a way to get the money back.
     
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    Is anyone on their (LBP) wechat group? What's the murmur there? Anyone local to China talking about it or being affected?
     
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    That's what I had assumed. Was not looking forward to chasing down those figures. This is what I got from superbuy.
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    Asked Thor Toys if he knew when FT-44 Thomas would be in stock and he said, "No".
     
  13. ILoveDinobot

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    I need help something I ordered from TaoBao came all crushed. Do I contact the seller? Request a partial refund?

    It's from the Tencent official shop too.

    ETA: I paid freight insurance. Not sure if that makes a difference.
     
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  14. solskjaer

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    It will be after the golden week holiday anyway, hopefully middle of October
     
  15. solskjaer

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    To USA? What forwarding services you use?
     
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    ILoveDinobot You can, you up. No can, no BB.

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    TaoBao's, the warehouse they ship it to.
     
  17. solskjaer

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    Take detailed pictures and message them. Tell them the condition, is it broken or damaged? They will see want they can do
     
  18. ILoveDinobot

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    Send the pictures to the warehouse or the seller? It doesn't look like anything is broken.
     
  19. solskjaer

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    Warehouse as it should be caused by oversea shipping and not domestic shipping. If nothing is broken or damaged, you are just claiming the package is crashed, right? Let's see what the warehouse says
     
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    It was only shipped in a plastic bag, no bubble wrap at all. I assume that's on the seller as my items usually have so much bubble warp I have to cut it off.