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08-13-2019, 04:31 PM
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#3171
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Phoenix
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Secret Sanctuary
Posts: 12,207
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mva5580
If you buy an XM statue from SpecFiction, you'd go to Todd. Not XM directly.
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Exactly right.
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08-13-2019, 04:32 PM
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#3172
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Jedi Order
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 26,227
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Actually, I just found the info my friend had shared with me. It was posted in the XM community on Facebook, which I have since left, so if anyone is a member, you can go read the whole thing yourself on the page. The person bought it from XM directly at a convention, but doesn't live in one of their Marvel approved countries. Apparently he had used a Singapore address but didn't actually live there (maybe a friend or relative). So, it wasn't eBay or some other random third party seller.
Now, I'm not saying this would happen with Spec Fiction or anything like that, but the situation really opened my eyes to the ease of buying through Sideshow. Even the whole Prime 1 debacle has me nervous to order through them directly.
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08-13-2019, 04:32 PM
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#3173
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Jedi Order
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 26,227
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Another dup.
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08-13-2019, 04:56 PM
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#3174
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Phoenix
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Secret Sanctuary
Posts: 12,207
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP
Actually, I just found the info my friend had shared with me. It was posted in the XM community on Facebook, which I have since left, so if anyone is a member, you can go read the whole thing yourself on the page. The person bought it from XM directly at a convention, but doesn't live in one of their Marvel approved countries. Apparently he had used a Singapore address but didn't actually live there (maybe a friend or relative). So, it wasn't eBay or some other random third party seller.
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That makes sense. The customer mislead XM, and took the risk that it might bite him in end, which it did. It puts XM in a tough spot. If their license only allows them to sell an item in certain countries, how can they provide customer service to someone in a non-approved country?
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08-14-2019, 12:23 AM
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#3175
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Hercules
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 14,296
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nearmint
That makes sense. The customer mislead XM, and took the risk that it might bite him in end, which it did. It puts XM in a tough spot. If their license only allows them to sell an item in certain countries, how can they provide customer service to someone in a non-approved country?
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For collectors outside of the approved region, that's always been the risk with buying XM. From the very beginning.
What made it a risk worth taking is that XM had a low defect rate. However, now it feels like that defect rate is increasing.
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08-14-2019, 12:26 AM
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#3176
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Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Adamantium Member
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 875
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC_808
For collectors outside of the approved region, that's always been the risk with buying XM. From the very beginning.
What made it a risk worth taking is that XM had a low defect rate. However, now it feels like that defect rate is increasing.
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Cutting those production costs I guess. Crappier factories, lesser QC, or both. Sideshow has certainly been a trailblazer on that front lol. Maybe Prime 1 is following suit.
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08-14-2019, 02:01 AM
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#3177
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Alpha Flight
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 4,551
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I think Schachi answered pretty much everything 
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Originally Posted by LeBeau
I can't find the ad or the seller  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by D-ten
Was this a buy it now or an auction?
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That was the end price of an auction, no buy it now.
Link:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Magneto-Side...p2047675.l2557
Of course it could be that the seller secured the statue by bidding with an own account. Also offering international shipping could help selling for more.
Chris
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08-14-2019, 06:12 AM
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#3178
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Inhumans
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: New York
Posts: 9,186
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Quote:
Originally Posted by supermetroid
I want to thank whoever posted the 10% off coupon over a week ago, I think the post was deleted.
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He got commission on each order too.
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08-20-2019, 07:50 AM
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#3179
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 1,934
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebulhym
If calling me a hater helps you feel better about paying that stupid amount of money on the most boring and overpriced Magneto ever made, then I am glad i could help!
In the meantime, none of you apologists was able to prove me wrong. Heh, that's what fanboys do after all. And you owning the statue doesn't make it a success, check your logic.
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I see you pulled your head out for some air? Maybe too late, as you are still dazed and confused.
And nobody has to prove anything. You, are proof of wrong.
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08-20-2019, 08:22 AM
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#3180
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The X-Men
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: New York
Posts: 1,019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Divo
I see you pulled your head out for some air? Maybe too late, as you are still dazed and confused.
And nobody has to prove anything. You, are proof of wrong.
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Northern changes like the wind. Sometimes he hates Sideshow then suddenly becomes in adoration. Hardly reliable and it makes his opinions just that, actually worthless, because they can change 360 degrees overnight.
You on the other hand, are probably typing your messages from one of Sideshow's cubicles.
Tell me, then, why would I spend time answering hopeless fanboys like you, who would be buying 1/4 scale statues of dog---- if Sideshow was making them.
Give me ONE reason?
Don't even try, you can't. And thus, we are done. G'day to you!
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