So will we be able to buy Transformers? That's all I care about, I would like to think that Hasbro would be able to sell them at retail AND have them available before Target or Walmart, I mean once they send out their shipments to those department stores or elsewhere, they are paid etc.

 

Considering it’s essentially supposed to be a completely new website a new account is kind of a necessity. It’s also not something that is difficult to do

No reason why transformers won’t be on the site really

 

You do love taking me to task lately. *sigh* And while it's not difficult, it's annoying on the 6th time. (Yes, I've had to redo it 5 times between the different iterations.) It's tiring and aggravating.

 

Damn, yea 5 or 6 times does definitely get old. Hopefully with an updated site it’ll be the last time for awhile though  

 

Hope these lazy a-holes will pick up the slack from their cancellation of the Fan Club...  
I guess we've had a trickle of the 3 "Prime Wars Trilogy" exclusives + Grotusque and Arcee,
but the amount of limited TF's has dropped waaaaay back lately, which is not cool.

 

The number of retail exclusives has actually increased over the last couple of years and doesn’t seem to be slowing.

 

I just took a look at Hasbro's official aliexpress site, and they have these figures listed at 25cm (~10inches). Are these upscaled versions of: Platinum Edition Rise of Rodimus Prime I'd ask there, but that thread was closed almost 2-years ago). From what I've read there, these weren't great figures, and from a youtube video I saw, these seemed smaller than 10inches. While on the surface, $49 for a 10" figure (leader class?) doesn't seem like a deal, but with an additional $12 off with the "Save $2 off every $15 spent" coupons, some might have interest in these particular "Rise of Rodimus Prime" figures, (especially if they're upscaled to ~10inches?). Can anyone confirm or deny 10-inch versions of these figures and/or improvements? I know sometimes upscaled "Deformations" on AE improve on things.

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That size given is wrong, they were never upsized

 

I love buying on HTS. I've had nothing but good experiences there.

 

Scroll down. The sizes are 15cm.

 

Because it's impossible to import/export between databases. Does Hasbro have any IT people here or are they all in India? Don't answer; the situation with their abortion of a website says it all.

 

You do realize them taking the site down for a rebuild is them acknowledging that their site sucks. The database may not be worth transferring. Maybe the new site will operate on a different programming language. There’s a lot of behind the scenes stuff that you and I don’t know about so you should stop pretending like you’re the grand king poobah of knowing everything

 

How about international shipping this time?

 

Curated = Guaranteed never to have anything worth buying

Seriously, I think it's going to be the exact opposite of this. You're not wrong about people not buying kid-oriented toys from HTS, but that doesn't mean I don't think HTS is going to attempt more of exactly that.

 

And if you knew what I do, you'd know the site's programming language has nothing to do with the database. SQL is the standard for every relational database model out there from Access to Oracle and has been for decades. You may as well defend moving exclusively to Edge or even an iPhone app because the screen layout is different.

They just don't want to map the data. They're making a classical business software mistake thinking their customers won't just sign up somewhere else. People take the path of least resistance and not carrying over accounts removes that advantage. That's not even accounting for their site being so bad, between its broken search, sluggish interface, and poor availability, that it was the last ditch alternative if every other option was exhausted.

 

A: don’t really care what you do because you come across as a belligerent know it all
B: it generally takes less than 5 minutes to sign up for an account on a website, you’re making a big deal out of nothing

 

Sorry I brought it up.

 

HTS selling on Walmart.com, eBay, Amazon, etc shows that they're not getting the traffic they want on their own site. You don't pay these platforms 15% commission for no reason.

 

A lot of retailers are selling on these platforms today. And, as a point of interest, when a company declares they will start selling on Amazon, their stock price JUMPS!  

Amazon and Walmart have a larger pool of customers, so it makes sense to sell there.

This isn't about not selling on your site, but about reaching NEW CUSTOMERS. There's a metric for calculating the cost of acquiring new customers, and a 15% selling fee may be a pittance to the true marketing costs of getting people to buy your product.

So Walmart sales are not necessarily diluting HTS traffic or hurting direct sales.

Further, HTS includes a discount flier (to their own site) in every shipping box, potentially luring Walmart/Amazon customers to HTS and creating a repeat customer.

All of that said, I wonder why Hasbro never considered printing the HTS website on the products themselves.   You'd think that when they disclaim the availability of all products in all markets, they might want to suggest buying directly from their warehouse. But clearly, this might antagonize their wholesale customers (even though I doubt Walmart would even notice the packaging advert!).

 

There's a difference between Billy's Toy Store in Podunk Pennsyltucky using a marketplace's marketing infrastructure and a national brand doing it. You do know how it worked out for Toys R Us to neglect their own operations year after year, right?