No wonder they sold out so fast!! Excl C 3PO bust.

[lockford88]

he is a uk retailer.he is selling em for a decent price......same as all the uk stores are selling em at. he has them for about a 4.00 difference...which should cover his ebay and paypal fees......so before you guys bash him...know the facts. everyone here is so ready to throw everybody else under the bus so quickly...he didnt get em from star wars shop.....has nothing to do with why sws sold out so quickly. this place is so turning into rebelscum as of late and that sucks........2 weeks ago some jerk bashed me because i was bidding on a dewback statue on ebay.he put a post here saying i was a bad seller and people should outbid me so i dont win it. it was a gift for a friend. if i can snag one for a good price, its going as a gift. but he didnt know that....he didnt care to know that....its just not cool...

[Guts]

Originally Posted by ta2215

He is a MR UK retailer, he posted at RS.com that he is getting something about 200 of these.

What he said. Also, he's listing these for GBP 39.99 - I think his cost was like GBP 36.99. Obviously it's a little expensive once converted to USD, but that's not this guy's fault.

He ordered 200 of these, but he also said that he'll probably get allocated. Anyway, he's not a scalper.

[JSA]

Not trying to throw anybody under a bus at all.

If he is a retailer though, his cost on them has to be pretty cheap.
I don't know the retail price of these, or the conversion to USD, so either way,
if it is a good deal - great! Just if it is a price increase on Ebay from an actual
retailer that would be unfortunate.

JS

[Guts]

Originally Posted by JSAuctionService

Not trying to throw anybody under a bus at all.

If he is a retailer though, his cost on them has to be pretty cheap.
I don't know the retail price of these, or the conversion to USD, so either way,
if it is a good deal - great! Just if it is a price increase on Ebay from an actual
retailer that would be unfortunate.

JS

It comes out to about $70, so including shipping from the UK you're looking at close to $100. But it's supposed to be exclusive to Singapore in the first place, so I'm not sure he could get them for a lot less than GBP 36.99 (the UK is only getting 500 total, as far as I know, just like the US). That's how much he says they cost, anyway. So a markup of a few pounds doesn't seem so bad.

[JSA]

Okey Dokey.

Now if somebody from the US would list 'em at a decent price!
(still don't see how that icon equals a red face?)

JS

[Giant Collector]

Hey Guys give this man a break the retail is £36.99 over hear anyway so its a few quid more, I have used him several times as I'm in the UK myself and he is a very nice person to deal with and most of his stuff is reasonably priced most of the time.
And the chances are he got his ones from forbidden planet not SWshop, and thats probably why they sold out so fast and limited them to 1 per customer at the end.

[ATATDRIVER]

Originally Posted by darthrobbler

I don't think he is the reason SWshop sold out so quick, I think it is because of all the obsessive SW collectors...myself included...

Exactly!

[elwood49]

Originally Posted by lockford88

2 weeks ago some jerk bashed me because i was bidding on a dewback statue on ebay.he put a post here saying i was a bad seller and people should outbid me so i dont win it.

Yeah, I agree that was not cool at all. I love this place so much because it is the anti-RS. I hope it doesn't turn into that either.

Originally Posted by JSAuctionService

Kinda sucks that a retailer wouldn't sell them for list price, but money is always king I guess.

JS

Actually, this is pretty much the list price in the UK for these.

Edit: I was beaten on this point above.

[JSA]

I think it was seeing them at $71.07 that was throwing me.
I don't know what they retailed at in the US, as they were gone from SWS
before I even had a chance to blink and know what the cost was!

I figured the busts would be around $30 to $50 USD retail. Dunno though.

JS

[RichardW]

JS, they were $49.99 on SWS.