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1966 has problems with scratches in glossy paint (advice was to buff it out with car polish ), windshield frame does not sit flush with the car body, doors do not close completely flush, outlines of red lines paint are wobbly.
Yeah, I had a lot of similar problems with my 1966 Batmobile. It was a complete mess and one of the most disappointing high-end 1:6 purchases of my 20+ years of collecting. While the car looked impressive at first glance it only took a few minutes to see all the glaring faults. Detailing and craft issues like paint are one thing, but to see such crucial design, engineering, mechanical, manufacturing and workmanship faults (like doors not closing flush or the broken hood not opening because it was fused shut with sloppy adhesive) are another. They eventually sold these faulty cars admittedly as discounted B-stock, or re-sold them from returns, but still shipped them out to buyers at full price in their initial batches. That shouldn't have been happening from the start.
I don't hate Jazzinc in the slightest or mean to discredit them – in fact I admire them greatly for what they're attempting to do and chose to support their collector/crowd-funded approach – but I'm surprised at what they allow to leave their production floor that eventually makes it to the final boxing and mailing stages. Do they not know or see when a product is faulty before shipping it out? They seem to be missing a step in the process. For convenience, we might call that "quality control", but in this collector community we tend to throw that term around too easily without a clear definition of measure, so I'll just call it a "pause" in their process. I realize they operate with a margin of inconsistency in their products, but it would save them a lot of back-peddling, returns, refunds and general customer support if they paid attention to what was being shipped out.
We can debate about what constitutes quality for a price, but that's a very subjective topic with no real measure. Some will pay hundreds while others are comfortable with thousands. There's no lateral measure or guarantee of what a price tag equates to when buying comparable products from different companies. The issue here is what Jazzinc allows to leave their factory and into the buyer's hands. They should be aware of what they're shipping, there's room for improvement in that "pause" stage, and I do think it's a valid point of critique. It's not an active discrediting of the company (like Danoby deliberately engages in), but an honest consumer concern that Jazzinc could benefit from listening to.
All that being said, I like all the vehicles I own from jazzinc, since they are from my favorite IPs, and I would not own them if not for jazzinc. I also admire his commitmnet to research of screen accuracy.
But nevertheless, I believe there is no fault in pointing out the mistakes and problems, as it can only serve to better the next product. Why should I say nothing, when I paid as much as I did?
My feelings exactly. We don't need to find ourselves quarrelling and childishly bashing each other in a tribal way to assert dominance in the discussion here. As I said, unlike someone like Danoby who clearly targets, attacks and unfairly discredits certain makers for his own agenda, we're generally supportive of them (Jazzinc, in this case) and appreciate the options they've added to the collector base. However, it's not wrong or unfair to critique when they've clearly fallen short somewhere in the products we buy from them. We're the buyers and ultimately we have the final product in our hands representing the last point in the chain of that object's existence. If it has faults we're where those issues will be felt, but those faults should be felt and rectified by the maker before the buyer receives them. It's just that simple of a point of accountability.
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