ZetaToys Kronos (Masterpiece Superion/Aerialbots)

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by daimchoc, Oct 28, 2016.

  1. MV Steve

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    Mine shipped within the last day, I imagine the better part of a week before it's in the system and it was with free shipping so I'm not gonna expect it any sooner than 2 months min.
     
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    Tracking shows that my set is being returned to Show.Z for some sort of issue. :mad: 
     
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    I ordered this exact set from ShowZ during the previous wave earlier this year. Order time to received time to me in the US using free shipping was approx 45 days. I got Constructor from ShowZ recently which took about the same time.
     
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  4. MV Steve

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    That's pretty good! I hope this return to sender thing is not turning into a common thing to happen. If it does then 3 weeks to a month can be added to the ship time!
     
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    Ordered mine Feb 25th and it shipped that date also.

    Arrived June 2nd....
     
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    My FH Overlord was also returned recently. Annoying.
     
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    I think ShowZ just needs to change their free shipping method. There are other stores that sell a lot of the same products at the same prices also offering free shipping and when I've ordered from them it's hardly ever gone longer than 3 weeks and no return to sender. Some even get your order to you within a week and as of late the time frame of when an order gets shipped and then gets in the actual system to move has started to take a while at ShowZ. I've had a recent order take 10 days before I got my ship notice then another 5 before the system showed it was moving. Having something like that happen then get returned could add a month or more to an order for no good reason at all which is really bad.
     
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    Man that sucks. Hope it gets resolved quickly.
     
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    Lmao. ShowZ just inflated the price of their listing for this guy.

    I was 50/50 on him since the price was so good but now I think I'll wait.

    Might get the black redeco if it's actually painted or wait for a different set.
     
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    My guess is they raised the price because they are now giving faster shipping for free because guys like me had theirs returned to them with the old default free shipping.
     
  11. MV Steve

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    I saw this too, lol! I had him on my watch list and went to go buy him over a week ago and it was sold out. I thought "that sucks, I checked within the hour and it was available, wth!" Then I went back a couple hours later to look at something about it and it was in stock so I jumped on it hoping it wasn't a mistake and on Wednesday last week I got a ship notice. Couple days later, out of stock, but now back more expensive. I think they are realizing they are gonna lose profit if they have to keep reshipping using FedEx because of the returns so they upped the price, that's my guess anyway. What sucks is they knew about some returns when they shipped mine and they sent it using their free SAL which is gonna get returned so I have to wait for it to go through the process and take its sweet ass time getting back to them and finally get a reship. So its gonna end up taking as long as SAL would have, lame!

    What sucks is I think they are trying to make the most profit by cutting corners on the shipping! Multiple other stores are within the same price range with product and yet ship so much faster TF Safari repeatedly sent orders to me within a week and they have free shipping. I just ordered from TFS Express and their prices are a ton cheaper but they charge shipping which I took the cheapest and was about $30 cheaper than anyone so I expected some slow ass shipping and just got a FedEx tracking number which means within 2 weeks! All other orders I've had through other stores, big or small, haven't taken longer than 3 weeks on average so I don't understand why they've taken the chance with SAL for so long when it has caused so many shipping problems.
     
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    Yeah, I was in the same boat. I was watching and saw they only had one left last week so I thought “now or never” and grabbed it. Then the next day they had 9 more and were selling about 1.5/day but I figured they’d just keep putting up more.

    I’m sure the shipping problems are the issue because I haven’t seen anywhere else that offers the price as low as ShowZ when you add shipping whether it’s Chinese retailers or taobao or whatever.
     
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    That's the thing though, there are other stores that sell at or within a few bucks of ShowZ and offer free shipping and from personal experience those stores dont slack on getting your order processed and shipped in a fast time frame so that's why its really weird what is going on with ShowZ at times. TF Safari, TF Direct & Terry's had Superitron/Armageddon ranging from $379, $384, to $399 which is the same as ShowZ since they sold Superitron (until now) for $379 and Armageddon for $399. ShowZ does have more inventory than most other stores so they sell more and I would have thought that at the first return or two they would have said screw that we are fixing this! I'm not saying they should throw money away on shipping but if those other stores have reliable shipping going on, ShowZ should be a step ahead of them.

    I can't say it enough, it's just weird! I've placed an order for a single item and it took 10 days before shipping with another 4 before it was in the system actually moving and took 43 days I think it was to get here, then I place a different order for 3 items that all ship separately and get shipped 2 days later and in the system 1 day later going FedEx which I never specified and all arrived in 2 weeks, not complaining at all about that but WTF! It messes with my braino_O 

    Btw, did yours ship free? And did you get a tracking number starting with CP?
     
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    Ah ok, It looks like now it’s the same price or higher at Terry’s and Baba’s and sold out with no price at TFSafari. I’m surprised Baba has a free shipping option though, so that’s not bad, I know it was like $130 or something at Bombusbee.

    Yeah, I got a CP tracking number and not really showing up anywhere so far, so who knows if it’ll be heading back to ShowZ for some reason.
     
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    The TF Safari prices only show when you click on the items. I did get excited and was about to buy Armageddon at Bombusbee and did a quick 180 when I saw that shipping. They're another one, they either have free or some ridiculous amount for shipping.

    CP is China Post which then goes SAL. If you bought last week then it went out of stock and back in, I bought immediately after so its possible we bought the same day. I know there were already reports of Superitron, Toyworld Prime, Mazinger Z, & something FansHobby being returned before I made my purchase and it was a load of CP tracking numbers that caused the Gigapower Grassor returns so I'm disappointed they chose to try and send the latest orders out that way anyway.
     
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    Great! This doesn't look good, my tracking just updated and I dont know what it means but I see a bunch of words that are not good
    Screenshot_20210622-013700_17TRACK.jpg
     
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    Covid staffing levels/shipping capacity... or at least that what I read into it.

    I had some xtb spares that did this. XTB just resent it out (different tracking number) and it flew through. Weird, especially as my initial number never updated at all (and I was sent an image of the label, so I know they processed it)
     
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    Yeah mine just got the same message:


    Shanghai, [Sitang Sales Department, Baoshan District] has been accepted and mailed, solicitor: Wang Ying, Tel: 13661792474, affected by the epidemic, overseas postal processing capacity is insufficient, mail delivery time limit will be extended
     
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    Funny you mention that because I'm expecting XTB spares and was just comparing this tracking number with that one. I noticed it started the tracking history with the same message then repeated then moved on a few steps then the message again at Shanghai and now seems like it has been dispatched. I also was given images of the label at first but it wasn't returned so it seems ok, an LY tracking number for what it's worth. I placed an order yesterday with TF Direct and they shipped same day, also starting with LY. My TFS Express order the day before also shipped same day but FedEx tracking. I hope they all go through easy. I can see that this message has held up movement with the little XTB parts so I'm dreading what this big Zeta box is gonna go like.
     
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    As of today Terry has Superitron (metallic) at $439.98 (and the original non-metallic set at $379.98 from a long time ago). Now sold out.
    Baba has the metallic set at $421.39

    So seeing ShowZ drop the SAL shipping and end up at $419.99 isn't shocking.

    If you've been watching these for a while then maybe Terry and baba did raise their prices once ShowZ had to finally give up on SAL. Was ShowZ using the cheap shipping holding down the prices for everyone? I'm sure ShowZ was making a bit of extra bit of profit using SAL shipping up until the past month or so when all the returns and re-shipping likely got to be too expensive. But I think both baba and Terry used to use SAL themselves until they also discovered that returned and lost packages were getting to be a big expense for them.

    I've had the 6 and 10 day waits from all 3 of these shops before items get moving. I'm still waiting on baba to ship my Double Evil. From my experience they've all been about equally slow getting items in the mail. I just assume it is the cost of doing business with them. Same way I'm not shocked if it takes BBTS 5 or 6 days to ship a pile of loot.
     
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