Man at this point I've cursed myself to see customs everywhere from everything. I'm making this year's custom theme Spawn everything, and I have a lot of WIP figures, I just got in all my paints from my wife so over the next month I should be finishing up plenty, next yr when I get back from Korea though I'm go heavy on TMNT customs, I have 2 that need to be finished and then I want to start that April and do Casey for the '07 group, I wanna do some '03 customs as well but we'll see how and where it goes, I mad I didn't do that B2tF Keno custom
Did you order the Pizza Monster and Ratking sets together or separately? Just curious, it looks like 15$ for each shipped separately or together. The cheapskate in me wants to order both together but I'm not sure on the release time on either of them.
I ordered it all together. I figured I’m probably waiting at least a few months for any of this stuff to show up anyway. On the bright side, it doesn’t look like I’ll need to hunt fucking Target for a SINGLE GOD DAMN THING for the foreseeable future. HAHAHAHAHA!
I don’t want the large pizza monster, but I do want the little one and the pizza - just can’t bring myself to buy it just for those
The frogs are one of those things I could see myself buying on impulse, maybe. I just don’t have much memory of them. And the stack of NECA TMNT stuff I’ve accumulated is borderline embarrassing, lol. It has gotten totally out of hand. Lines need to be drawn somewhere. I put up new shelves and moved all of my stuff into a different dedicated room in the house, and I still don’t know if I’ll have the space to display all of them.
I thought about ordering the pizza monster, but then I remembered how much I hated that episode as a kid so why would I want an eternal piece of plastic commemorating a single episode that I didn't even like? *phew* I really hope NECA are able to get Rat King out before the end of the year. Still waiting on B&R (which I thankfully found at Target afterwards, but still).
I ordered a Rat King/Vernon set, a second Roadkill set and three Aliens set, was charged $15 shipping total (it should be free, but NECA is being cheap and at least its not Torka and Razzar shipping). Other then April/foot soldier, ultimate foot soldier, and the Frogs. I am current.
Not offering free shipping isn't being cheap - Their operation isn't large enough to eat the massive losses in shipping that larger companies can endure in order to facilitate a larger market-share by enticing shoppers to use them vs. someone else. Since NECA's only competition would either be Walmart or Target, and since neither of them can seem to stay stocked for very long, it makes more business sense to not incur the loss unnecessarily since there's really not much of a "gain" in offering free shipping. We've all gotten very spoiled thanks to Amazon in terms of not paying shipping for things. And while I'm not keen on spending money on shipping because Target don't seem to want my money locally, I can at least justify it as: 1. Not paying sales tax at NECA (so saving ~$5 there). 2. Not having to haunt all of the local Target stores in the area only to come up empty-handed (time and fuel, but mostly time - and frustration).
When I finally get around to finishing it, that street scene display is going to go on a new shelf where the red square is drawn...hoping it will be able to hold most of the rest of the figures...haha.
It sounds like you have an axe grind with NECA since your response didn't actually refute anything that I originally said. Also manufacturer <> store. Stores require infrastructure and funding to run. It's like not NECA are selling these off the truck straight from the factory docks. Not saying that the profit margin isn't potentially higher selling directly from the NECA store, but this is hardly the mad-cash-grab you're making it out to be. Free shipping started with Amazon. Other retailers followed suit in order to remain competitive in the online market. This isn't the retailer being "less greedy" - it's trying to survive/compete. No retailer "wants" to take massive losses on shipping and packing materials, but some is better than none when it comes to revenue.
