[TOY ALERT] Pre-order Penalty?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
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MP TOY ALERT! Have you had a pre-order date scooped by another retailer? My experience with TF Collaborative G.I. Joe Bumblebee/Striker and X-Transbots MX-10 Virtus.
Why do we have to wait for our pre-order date to arrive even though the product is available and in stock elsewhere?
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I would expect that Hasbro agrees not to release there inhouse online retail supply so as not to compete with regular retail. With online stores there is real concern that a retailer might drop support for your product if you sell direct or undercut them on release day. Much of this is my speculation.
Even if it's speculation, it makes a lot of sense. 🙏However, I imagined that Hasbro would have handled this kind of thing differently, you know like releasing first in limited quantity instead of having a retailer scoop the street date right out from under the Hasbro Pulse members. At some point, you have to ask what you're really getting from buying through Hasbro Pulse. 😕
Most of my experience is with third party stuff.
At ShowZ You can preorder with a deposit or by paying the full amount. The people that paid the full amount get their figures first, in first paid/first received order.
With Fans Toys, the American market gets their orders fulfilled first, sometimes by a couple of months, as happened with Aussie.
Some retailers pay extra for air freight, some use the slow boat from China.
That's all I can think of right now.
Edit: with Hasbro, some markets (usually Indonesia and the Philippines) have early releases. I assume Amazon uses retailers there.
😮I hadn't even thought of Amazon sourcing internationally for an earlier release date. That would make sense! Also, thanks for sharing those details about pre-ordering at full price @ShowZStore and about Fans Toys catering to the American market first. That ShowZStore detail is DEFINITELY a gem! 😁👏👏👏🙏
So fulfillment diesnt happen all at once. They don't warehouses full of product just sitting there. So they have deals with different stores about when they will get their shipment. Some stores gets their product before others because of that abd their deals. (Might be due to order quantities, sell through fir total product including other figures etc.) Amazon probably buys/sells so much they have higher priority. They may also say hey we don't do street dates. When it gets in our warehouse they just sell, and they can do that because they move so much product they have the power to say that.
Now what I hate is doing a pro order for one price and then realize it's cheaper a week later. Like I'm done pre ordering fans Toys because they are a third less if I can just wait a month or less to buy them.
Also pre-orders might be in shipment waves. So if you weren't right on it you might be on the second or third shipment depending when you got in line.
What you're saying makes total sense. Thanks, Sean! 🙂🙏 And I agree about ANY pre-order price costing more than the product costs a week after release; but that's the gamble, right? Pay the pre-order price and have the most certainty of getting a copy or wait and maybe not get it. One thing I appreciated that X-Transbots or TFSource did (I'm not sure which one was responsible) with the early pre-orders of MX-10 Virtus (Springer) was that they didn't ask for more money when the final product details had been decided and the retail price raised. That saved me $70 on that purchase.
@@mp_reviews thats why I usually why I pre-ordered early. It's often like $10-$20 less than the when released price. But Fan Toys seem to have broke with that post pandemic and reversed it. So now I'm just wait and see with those because every one since Apache/Springer have come out for $20-$50 less later.
@@mp_reviews One more bit about ShowZ, if they reduce the price after you preorder, they refund you the difference in ShowZ points. You're probably thinking "How long after preorder do they cover?" Well, I got a refund on the eleventh of November for a preorder on the twenty-sixth of September! I believe this is the same for normal purchases too.
I promise I don't work for ShowZ.
@UnChannelDuVulpineX 😆 Are you sure you don't? Seriously, though, that's a great bit of customer service! 👏👏👏
@@technicallyartistic Yeah, I thought pre-order prices were often used by 3rd-party companies to generate enough cash to fund them, and one of the perks for going in on something we weren't sure was going to happen was getting a lower price. What Fans Toys is doing in this case does seem like a penalty for the pre-order crowd, but how much control do they really have if sales aren't as good as they hoped? I guess, when all is said and done, most companies are just trying to stay in business and make a product we fans will like.