Hicks and Apone 2nd chance

[Sachiel]

SWEET!

I got... none.

 

[The Craw]

this same thing happened to me a few times. im on an active waitlist and somehow they find the figure and off it goes to 2nd chance or off to some contest. makes me mad. Waitlists must only work at shipping time to cover cancelations. otherwise they are worthless.

 

[p!tu]

 

[The Chaver]

I would have only bought one (I think...) but I don't really have a problem with those who bought two. I have a problem with the half-assed way SS handled this whole issue.

Yes,they are a shady bunch of a-holes aren't they?

 

[nicky]

SSC should cancel all these "second chance" orders, send a gift card to those who ordered this with an explanation and retrieve those files and offer the pieces to the Waitlisters who waited 2 friggin' years.

Bad practice SSC.. you still have a chance do do the right thing.

I didnt get anything but an apologetic email about my recently cancelled 2nd chance Rambo III fig - I was on the wait-list so automatically went striaght thru to 2nd chance but after 10 days of being in "processing" I finally got an email saying they had over-sold their quantities and what they had left was damaged figs and already spoken for by others. No gift code, just the email.

 

[nash]

I didnt get anything but an apologetic email about my recently cancelled 2nd chance Rambo III fig - I was on the wait-list so automatically went striaght thru to 2nd chance but after 10 days of being in "processing" I finally got an email saying they had over-sold their quantities and what they had left was damaged figs and already spoken for by others. No gift code, just the email.

that sucks big time dude. how do you oversell something when the site doesnt allow more orders than there are stock.

 

[lcummins]

...somehow they find the figure and off it goes to 2nd chance or off to some contest...

To be fair, most of the items for contests are either over-stocked, or were allocated to contests from the very beginning... or so I understand it.

 

[lcummins]

that sucks big time dude. how do you oversell something when the site doesnt allow more orders than there are stock.

They have oversold some preorders in anticipation of cancellations and such. A couple of times in the past, I've called to ask if they could hold off charging for an item for a week or a few days, and been told they could, but couldn't guarantee the item would still be available when they go to charge the card for it, because it was oversold.

 

[Sachiel]

Wow, I hope that doesn't happen to my Elder waitlist.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Wow, where was all this interest when these figures were first offered?

I hope the perceived value of Hicks hasn't made people go crazy.

 

[nash]

Wow, where was all this interest when these figures were first offered?

I hope the perceived value of Hicks hasn't made people go crazy.

of course it has.

 

[icruise]

Wow, where was all this interest when these figures were first offered?

I for one wasn't collecting 1/6th scale figures when they were originally sold, but it does make me think twice about passing on some things like the new Alien figures, since I don't want to miss out again.

 

[royasave33]

why why why i was at work and just got back im going tocry i hate my life where are the razors maybe i will drown my self in the toilet bowl god damit

 

[Grange Wallis]

I'm fuming I missed this...​

 

[mr.thrifty]

it's called business. over 1000 views in four hours, 10 pages of comments. how many people now are going to be checking that newsletter often? they know what there doing. it would have been nice to get in on those but what there getting people to do is buy more of them when there on preorder so they won't have to pay aftermarket prices. there not even made when there first offered. I'm sure they look at the preorder interest when judging how many to make. more people are becoming aware of how much pred/aliens figures go up in price. soon so many folks will be getting them at retail that the aftermarket price won't be that much. and ssc/hot toys will get more $$$ in the first place instead of flippers. just my two cents. bet we all wish we bought two when they first came out.

 

[Sachiel]

Wow, where was all this interest when these figures were first offered?

I hope the perceived value of Hicks hasn't made people go crazy.

I was stupid and didn't buy it when they were first available.

I mean, jeez, they were $85!

 

[Dark Blade Clan]

This thread has some crazy attention. Congrats to all who got in on this.

I'm ^^^ing pissed cuz I just received the newsletter 30 mins ago. thanks a million SS.

 

[Memnoch]

This thread has some crazy attention. Congrats to all who got in on this.

I'm ^^^ing pissed cuz I just received the newsletter 30 mins ago. thanks a million SS.

Again not SS's fault. They post the newsletter immediately on their website. That's the place to check for things like this. NEVER wait for it to hit the inbox.

 

[FACEBOX]

Eh..... Prime example of why I've NEVER ordered through sideshow before, and I don't plan to anytime soon neither.

It really sucks for you guys that didn't manage to get one.
Congrats to those who did. Furthermore, there should have at least been a limit of 1 per customer on figures like these two.


Not cool Sideshow.

 

[eighthsamurai]

AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

missed it AGAIN!!! the thing that hurts most is that sideshow took me off the hicks wait list a couple of months ago. they obviously thought these were long gone. damn that's a shocker. my first hicks gets lost in the post, the second p!tu beats me to it by a matter of minutes and the third i just plain missed by a mile.