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[brucecamblzchin]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

Lol, I can bet this forum is the place to come to for all of SS's employees to laugh their *** off at collecting desperation. You think SSAlex is the only one who comes in here to monitor? **** no! Those guys prolly place bets to see who'll accept what.

I bet it was chaos when Batman came out, employees running around screaming and killing each other. Then one man stood up and said, "Calm down everyone, please! We just have to monitor SS Freaks and hope that the usual nut-swingers accept what we've given them. Once they do, everyone else will follow like mice. Afterwards...we're good."

Haha, you're all slaves!

That definitely happened.

 

[csi]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

Lol, I can bet this forum is the place to come to for all of SS's employees to laugh their *** off at collecting desperation. You think SSAlex is the only one who comes in here to monitor? **** no! Those guys prolly place bets to see who'll accept what.

I bet it was chaos when Batman came out, employees running around screaming and killing each other. Then one man stood up and said, "Calm down everyone, please! We just have to monitor SS Freaks and hope that the usual nut-swingers accept what we've given them. Once they do, everyone else will follow like mice. Afterwards...we're good."

Haha, you're all slaves!

what exactly is a "nut-swinger", or do I now want to know

 

[filip629]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

Of course SS ships out returned products, anything else would be stupid, and there's many examples of that being proved here. Many return flawless items for different reasons. But in order to do so, SS must make sure to check returned items extremely carefully. They have to check to see if every things in the box properly and that there's no flaws. Anything else is unacceptable. You definitely should check the piece even more thoroughly if there's sign of it being opened. But I don't see anything wrong with shipping out returns as long as they have a system for it.

For me personally, this is perfectly acceptable. For example, I ordered the WoW Arthas statue. I never played the game and know nothing of the character however, I was blown away with how AWESOME the statue looked and POd it. Of course it took almost 2 years since the PO date for it to be released. I received the statue and noticed some things I didn't like. The cape didn't reach his shoulder and also rubbed against an ice shard on the base. I literally had to pull on his cape to try and put him on his base. These were obviously manufacturing defects so I decided to return the piece since I didn't know much about the character and bought the piece just because I liked the way it looked. After looking at the Arthas thread here on the forum, I found out these issues existed on all of the statues SSC produced. I shipped mine back fully understanding that it would probably be resold. That isn't an issue. However, there are peeps here claiming that SSC is reselling damaged statues to peeps on the WL. That is a concern. I have never experienced this personally and it is certainly not something I would accept. Again, my only WL conversion was the Green Lantern EX. He arrived minty fresh and with great paint apps. After having such a positive experience, I wouldn't hesitate to jump on the WL again.

 

[Spidey976]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

Lol, I can bet this forum is the place to come to for all of SS's employees to laugh their *** off at collecting desperation. You think SSAlex is the only one who comes in here to monitor? **** no! Those guys prolly place bets to see who'll accept what.

I bet it was chaos when Batman came out, employees running around screaming and killing each other. Then one man stood up and said, "Calm down everyone, please! We just have to monitor SS Freaks and hope that the usual nut-swingers accept what we've given them. Once they do, everyone else will follow like mice. Afterwards...we're good."

Haha, you're all slaves!

So let me guess this straight. You in you VAST time here... Less then a full year ... Now have enough experience here and the ***** to call guys who have been doing this for years "slaves", and why? Because they are not all OCD driven cry babies who can DEAL with the fact that a seam on a statue is 1/10-1/4 of an inch out from the body, and because some of us are excited by the fact that we have WL conversions coming because a crap load of guys JUMPED to conclusions based on a few bad pics??? I am benefiting from someone else choice to cancel this statue, and I am FINE with that. Now I hope they are not terribly disappointed in the end, but that won't be my problem. In the end some of us will be more than happy to have this piece in our collection, and just because we don't agree with you doesn't make us "slaves", but the fact that you would call us that makes you a d****e bag.

Right, and you're here because?

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I don't know either

TROLLING!!! Nuff said

 

[Irvy]

Re: Sideshow Batman PF?

Lmao and then the wild BobaNerd grew bold and ventured into the statue threads to spread his wisdom....

 

[csi]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

So let me guess this straight. You in you VAST time here... Less then a full year ... Now have enough experience here and the ***** to call guys who have been doing this for years "slaves", and why? Because they are not all OCD driven cry babies who can DEAL with the fact that a seam on a statue is 1/10-1/4 of an inch out from the body, and because some of us are excited b the fact that we have WL conversions coming because a crap load of guys JUMPED to conclusions based on a few bad pics??? I am benefiting from someone else choice to cancel this statue, and I am FINE with that. Now I hope they ate terribly disappointed in the end, but that won't be my problem. In the end some of us will be more than happy t have this piece in our collection, and just because we don't agree with you doesn't make us "slaves", but the fact that you would call us that makes you a d****e bag.





TROLLING!!! Nuff said

Spidey did you forget to take your meds again?

 

[Mr. Green]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

my my, Mr. Green have seen strange things on this thread; like THINGs, man.

 

[Spidey976]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

Spidey did you forget to take your meds again?

No I even took the BLUE PILL... lol. Honestly, I am just tired of guys basically calling us all brain dead sheep because we LIKE a statue they don't. I know I bagged on GL and the Batman Bust, but I was WRONG, and at least I had the ***** to say it, and I sure as hell wasn't calling people slaves.... Sorry for the rant, just a little short on patience for guys like this today... lol

 

[franpincho]

Re: Sideshow Batman PF?

It's all good man. Let it go.

Let's just enjoy out Bats PF.

Am I a sheep now because I want the Supes and WW PF now based on how amazing this PF turned out to be? BobaNerd, please advise.

 

[JAWS]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I don't really want to take sides but someone really needs to provide proof of these types of allegations. Here's the problem. I return a Poison Ivy PF because it has googly eyes. Another person off the WL converts for Ivy and gets googly eyes. Now I claim that person who converted got my return. Well, we all know that SSC has tons of statues that have that problem. It doesn't mean that he received my return. Jaws provided a specific example with a problem and an edition number. Another member here claimed he received his return. Is it possible? Of course, but unless that particular individual takes a pic and posts it...how do we know for sure? There are a few peeps here that love to slam SSC and their business practices. However, if anyone is going to say that SSC resells damaged statues, provide indisputable proof. Give me a edition number of a statue that was returned with a picture of the damage. Then let the person whose WL converted and claimed to receive the same damaged piece post pics of the edition number and damage. If everything matches up, I'll buy in completely.

I don't mean to fan the flames as I really don't care about SSC return policy as long as they take back a product I am unhappy with..

But if they don't resell their returns then why were they so adamant about making sure the item I return was not damaged? Otherwise they would charge me a percentage. If they were not going to turn around and sell then why care how it comes back... I guess the argument could be that SSC wants to be sure that I did not break it and I am returning it because I broke it... But I tend to think that it's because they are going to just turn around and resell.

No big deal In my mind. Just because it's been opened does not reduce the value.

 

[Spidey976]

Re: Sideshow Batman PF?

It's all good man. Let it go.

Let's just enjoy out Bats PF.

Am I a sheep now because I want the Supes and WW PF now based on how amazing this PF turned out to be? BobaNerd, please advise.

I would love to have all of them... and maybe someday I will

 

[SurlyJ]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I don't mean to fan the flames as I really don't care about SSC return policy as long as they take back a product I am unhappy with..

But if they don't resell their returns then why were they so adamant about making sure the item I return was not damaged? Otherwise they would charge me a percentage. If they were not going to turn around and sell then why care how it comes back... I guess the argument could be that SSC wants to be sure that I did not break it and I am returning it because I broke it... But I tend to think that it's because they are going to just turn around and resell.

No big deal In my mind. Just because it's been opened does not reduce the value.

It's also possible they take returns and use them for replacement parts. We just don't know and anyone to claim to KNOW without first hand knowledge is misunderstanding the difference between a fact and a conclusion determined from suggestions towards a hypothesis.

 

[brucecamblzchin]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I would argue also that sometimes returns are very spurious and whoever the SS rep is just goes 'Fine, send the fig with a tiny scratch back to us for a full refund as you are clearly outraged.' and they give him a once over and send him back out to someone on the waitlist. No big deal. I could certainly see them using returns for parts etc.

 

[Bmutha]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I would argue also that sometimes returns are very spurious and whoever the SS rep is just goes 'Fine, send the fig with a tiny scratch back to us for a full refund as you are clearly outraged.' and they give him a once over and send him back out to someone on the waitlist. No big deal. I could certainly see them using returns for parts etc.

I don't have a big problem with them doing that. If they are able to swap out damaged parts and send it out again, good as new...what's the issue?

 

[Spidey976]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

A returned product that is not damaged so fair game to be resold, and parts of a product that have been returned that were inspected and no damaged at the time of the inspection are fair game to be sent out as well, and that includes boxes and Styrofoam that may have happy faces drawn on it. Now I am not saying that there haven't been damaged pieces sent back out again, but that could have simply been an oversite by the guys packing them. Lets also face it that there will be pieces that the workers in China damage and try to fix and pass off as fine because I am sure they come out of their pay if they damage pieces. In the end SSC is a business, they aren't doing us a favor by selling us these statues, they are in it to make money. However, I don't think they are out to get us or send us a product we can't live with. Honestly, if that was what they were up to why would they even bother to have reps on sites like the Freaks board. I would stay as far away as I possibly could.

 

[brucecamblzchin]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

What percentage of collectors keep up date and contribute on forums though? 20%? 25%?

 

[filip629]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I don't mean to fan the flames as I really don't care about SSC return policy as long as they take back a product I am unhappy with..

But if they don't resell their returns then why were they so adamant about making sure the item I return was not damaged? Otherwise they would charge me a percentage. If they were not going to turn around and sell then why care how it comes back... I guess the argument could be that SSC wants to be sure that I did not break it and I am returning it because I broke it... But I tend to think that it's because they are going to just turn around and resell.

No big deal In my mind. Just because it's been opened does not reduce the value.

What Surly says below. If a statue isn't damaged and is returned, I fully expect it to be resold and I have no issue with it. If you return an item and it has some damage maybe some of the other pieces (EX feature, base, weapons, COH, or bodies) can be used as replacements. Again, I have no issues with that. Returning a damaged statue and then having that same damaged statue be sent to someone on a WL...I do have a problem with that.

It's also possible they take returns and use them for replacement parts. We just don't know and anyone to claim to KNOW without first hand knowledge is misunderstanding the difference between a fact and a conclusion determined from suggestions towards a hypothesis.

 

[bicoid18]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

What percentage of collectors keep up date and contribute on forums though? 20%? 25%?

I would imagine that it would be more than that considering these are high end collectibles. Just to see what qc issues to look out for as far as a general trend at least before plopping down $500 or more.

I have a question for the Canucks that had their Ex's shipped to Canada. How much did you guys pay to have it shipped up here? I've been combing though the thread and someone mentioned $40 shipping + $40 gst/pst + $20 brokerage fee? Ideally I'd have it shipped to my US address, but I don't have any plans for an extended trip until April or May.


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[brucecamblzchin]

Re: Official Sideshow Batman PF

I would imagine that it would be more than that considering these are high end collectibles. Just to see what qc issues to look out for as far as a general trend at least before plopping down $500 or more.

I doubt it, lotta collectors out there who'd plop that money down without thinking about it. SS may be 'high end' but they're not the most expensive out there not by a long shot.

 

[ShiftyScarecrow]

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Im getting charged $55 to Alaska so I actually hope Canadians arent getting a better deal.