Hicks and Apone 2nd chance
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Saw it on time, but passed.
Never understood the succes and thought to give someone who really wants it a chance.
eBay prices are getting out of control if you ask me
Never understood the succes and thought to give someone who really wants it a chance.
eBay prices are getting out of control if you ask me
SOLIDSNAKE
Super Freak
OMG I WAS AT WORK !!
my god that proves it sideshow is full of surprises.
Looks like i am going to have to get internet satelite connection and bring my laptob to work.
dam 85 BUCS !!!! thats insane !! people out there are paying like 300 bucs for him used !!
geeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz
my god that proves it sideshow is full of surprises.
Looks like i am going to have to get internet satelite connection and bring my laptob to work.
dam 85 BUCS !!!! thats insane !! people out there are paying like 300 bucs for him used !!
geeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Well done to the guys that got them, 
but its very unfair that people who have been on the waitlist for a long time didnt get them also people like me in the U.K were probably sleeping when they were offered and didnt really stand a chance.
Its all cool though cause Im only really a predator fan.
but its very unfair that people who have been on the waitlist for a long time didnt get them also people like me in the U.K were probably sleeping when they were offered and didnt really stand a chance. Its all cool though cause Im only really a predator fan.
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That really blows.I wanted Hicks too.SS really screwed us.
wait what time zone is that?
I started checking around 10:30 (east coast) but it was already too late.
Alice Adrenochrome
Super Freak
I don't want to talk about it.
bagelsncheesey
Super Freak
Congrats to those who were able to score these! Luckily, I got out of the Aliens line, so I can't kick myself too hard. 
Ryanfromindiana
Super Freak
I'm EST...I thought maybe that was screwy or something, but I went and looked again and that is what it says. I got it very shotly after 9PM EST which has been pretty standard for the newsletter to pop up for the last several weeks.
creecher
Such is Life - Ned Kelly
Hey, I'm older than Lonnie and all experience gave me was bewilderment.
So what's up ya whiney pack of whingers? Sideshow do so much for so many, and the minute you pee your pants you want mummy. No long pants for you. Those of you that don't have Hicks and Apone still don't have it. So what's changed? Your diapers? What needs to change is your attitudes. It's their product, and their business. You don't hear Hot Toys giving you a second chance or a waitlist, and their newsletter is more rumour mongering than detail. Why don't you hit Hot Toys up, if you really want these figures. Email them and ask them what they do with their return orders. Is it, 'Oh, what do we do with these? I guess nobody wants them. May as well put them in the grinder'. Do us old people have to do your thinking for you as well. I guess it goes with the diaper change. If I was the Kurgan, I'd just slice your heads off and walk on by.
lcummins
Universal MODster
...Furthermore, there should have at least been a limit of 1 per customer on figures like these two.
Not cool Sideshow.
Again, I will mention that the original preorder was a limit of 2 per person, or at least ended with that. Sideshow will increase the limit for slow sellers, but I have never seen them decrease the limit unless it was a mistake when it was first put up. These things didn't sell out that quickly when they were first put up for preorder, and Sideshow doesn't usually change their limits just because a figure has become "hot" and is worth a lot on the secondary market.
The only thing you can fault Sideshow for with these, is not fulfilling the Wait List. I've had that happen a couple of times myself.
bagelsncheesey
Super Freak
Lonnie. Breaking hearts with the truth since 1928.
It is true though. They went with the original limit, wouldn't expect them not to.
Ryanfromindiana
Super Freak
Hey, I'm older than Lonnie and all experience gave me was bewilderment.
So what's up ya whiney pack of whingers? Sideshow do so much for so many, and the minute you pee your pants you want mummy. No long pants for you. Those of you that don't have Hicks and Apone still don't have it. So what's changed? Your diapers? What needs to change is your attitudes. It's their product, and their business. You don't hear Hot Toys giving you a second chance or a waitlist, and their newsletter is more rumour mongering than detail. Why don't you hit Hot Toys up, if you really want these figures. Email them and ask them what they do with their return orders. Is it, 'Oh, what do we do with these? I guess nobody wants them. May as well put them in the grinder'. Do us old people have to do your thinking for you as well. I guess it goes with the diaper change. If I was the Kurgan, I'd just slice your heads off and walk on by.
I have missed plenty of stuff, but everytime I get lucky I feel bad after coming here. Then after a while it makes me want to flip stuff out of spite, even when it is stuff I really really want to keep(like these).
icruise
Super Freak
I'm not sure why changing the maximum number allowed would be so terrible, but if their current rules wouldn't allow them to change this, then they should have used another method to sell these figures. The obvious choice would be the waitlist (which I wasn't on, for the record), but if that wouldn't work for some reason, they could have held a contest or lottery for the right to buy them, or used them as prizes of some sort.
lcummins
Universal MODster
Why should they have changed the limit? Just because these are now hot and sell for a lot on eBay? If the limit was 2 when they first put them up, and they didn't sell out immediately, then I see no reason why Sideshow should have made the limit one now. That's how they do these things; they find them, update the stock status in the database and reopen the product page... simple as that.
icruise
Super Freak
lcummins
Universal MODster
Uh, yes?
Sideshow has never really been concerned with the secondary market, as far as things like this go. I'm sure they like to see their product do well on the secondary market, because that usually means increased sales with existing product. But as far as selling items, or even giving them away, the secondary market usually has no real effect, other than they might mention it when giving something really hot away.
Would it have been nice to make it a limit of one? Sure, we would all like to see that, except those that got 2, but it doesn't bother me that they didn't.
Where was this stated in the news letter? I didn't see it...or was it just listed on the web site?
Sideshow does A LOT of things that are customer friendly, ie. replacement parts, good customer service and great convention appearances. But in defense of all the guys who wanted these and didn't get a snowballs chance to grab one (I'm not included by the way as I have no Aliens merchandise), they also, like other companies, do some really grease ball crap too, ie waiting so long to change that buck body, charging so much for Gandalf who is still on the buck platform, and not being sensitive to the market by limiting these RARE and HOT figs to one per customer.
And I can't buy that SSC doesn't pay attention to the secondary market. All companies do, I believe. Its a basic gauge on their market. Plain and simple
my $.02
Sideshow does A LOT of things that are customer friendly, ie. replacement parts, good customer service and great convention appearances. But in defense of all the guys who wanted these and didn't get a snowballs chance to grab one (I'm not included by the way as I have no Aliens merchandise), they also, like other companies, do some really grease ball crap too, ie waiting so long to change that buck body, charging so much for Gandalf who is still on the buck platform, and not being sensitive to the market by limiting these RARE and HOT figs to one per customer.
And I can't buy that SSC doesn't pay attention to the secondary market. All companies do, I believe. Its a basic gauge on their market. Plain and simple
my $.02
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
Sideshow has never really been concerned with the secondary market, as far as things like this go. I'm sure they like to see their product do well on the secondary market, because that usually means increased sales with existing product. But as far as selling items, or even giving them away, the secondary market usually has no real effect, other than they might mention it when giving something really hot away.
Would it have been nice to make it a limit of one? Sure, we would all like to see that, except those that got 2, but it doesn't bother me that they didn't.
Then why do they sell stuff at auction for twice the price?
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