So I just received an email from simply toys...

[jetfuel]

... That stated this about my Thanos pre-order.
Dear customer,

you are receiving this email because your order(s) with Simply Toys for Marvel XM studios item(s) is(are) affected. It has come to our attention we are only allowed to sell XM Marvel items to customers with addresses from the following countries:

- Austria
- France
- Germany
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Malaysia
- Portugal
- The Philippines
- Singapore
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- China (pending approval)
- Hong Kong (pending approval)

For customers whose shipping address do not below to any of the above mentioned countries, these are the options:
1. We can cancel your order and refund you the deposit
2. You can find a Singapore address and have the person self collect the item from us. We can still bill you for the item but 7% GST will be charged for all local purchases.
3. Have us ship the XM items to an address from the approved list of countries.


Ain't that just a kick in the sack.

[Apetina]

So it's actually happening! What a bummer. Star Wars license will have the same fate though

[jye318]

very very bad news for me......

[The Mule]

S--t hit the fan.

[ZenLogikos]

More than half of the Magneto owners who posted were from North or South America. Not sure how indicative that is of actual XM ownership, but if it's close, things are going to get very interesting...

So the only method those of us not in approved regions now have to acquire XM, is NOT through XM, NOT through licensed retailers, but ONLY through private citizens performing a service for us.... and/or ebay?

[Marcel54]

I got THE MAIL as well. The "funny" thing is that the European distributor is only allowed to sell in certain countries as well. This is from their website: "Currently we have only specific countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal as you can see on our website/ shop.". So in all we are depended on a few well intending fellow collectors and at the mercy of the "flippers".

[Peedi]

Dear God, I just got the same email, too...one more thing to deal with amongst all the other crap that's hitting me. Not sure what I'm going to do...


So Simply Toys is no longer an option for us in the U.S. Bummer. There goes my Daredevil dreams. For those that don't have a personal/private distributor locked in, it's extra harder to now get an XM statue. Damn near impossible for anybody newer to XM.

There's the list of other sellers. I wonder if they're going through the same thing with US orders?

[Chug]

And suddenly, having an adress in France became much more interesting...

[EnShinNoi]

They're not going to absorb the PayPal fees for their **** up. If I had an order, I'd be sure complaining to well beyond just the website.

[dino76m]

so the initial people who found contacts thorough middle men are safe,, now this is really screwed up,I guess the people who have a middle man are really happy now.. I had 3 orders with XM ,2 i really wanted but guess getting any XM product is over now,
well more money saved.at least