Without this information, it looked like this place was devolving into yet another hisstank style website.
It is good to see this site and it's reps are above the crap pervasive at the other sites, just wanted to know what was up, that's all.
Well, I do have a "pecking order" which has developed over time, but that's due to folks who have a long-standing record of helping me out. It's "favors" but also that there's a standard of trust I've built with them to know that they'll pull through and vice-versa. Not saying I don't trust you guys, but I know them pretty well from experience. For this site, (without forgetting anyone), Eddie, MB, Fogger, NSA, Cloud Strife, MW and probably now Hellion are dudes who I know will come through in a pinch, almost always. It just so happens that almost all of those guys are either Mods or Officers, but we're not trying to be "exclusive", it's just how I've worked out a system over the years. I still wind up paying retarded prices on shit quite a bit, though. So even with a safety net of other collectors, sometimes I still have to shell out for certain items.
The other thing, and I'd have to check PMs, is that I think you, DH and a few others had asked me about stuff from a line (literally, toyline or the stand-in-line line at SDCC) I know little about, and had I any extra room (as it turns out, I was right... I didn't, and actually had to ship Eddie's to him at the last minute) so once I hit up the Hasbro booth, if there was time for me to hit up those booths, I would. The lines weren't that welcoming, unfortunately, and I had other stuff to do, so I didn't make the Mattel line, for instance.
Throwing in an offer to help out, and us saying "sorry" isn't a "fuck you" by any means. It just means we're either maxed out or it's not in the game plan. Hell, NSA was running around half the time playing "Take a Pic of This-n-That" for the members here, plus I had other things to do besides stand in lines. Hasbro's a line I was in already, beyond that is just icing on the proverbial cake.
We could over-promise and not deliver, and that would leave you behind because you were expecting it and then have to pay even higher secondary prices for it. At least we were honest?
The Starstriker box was also the same size as the Shocktank box. I haven't opened a SS box, but I imagine there's lots of empty space. This year's box is probably a bit heavier though.
3 of those motherfuckers in that unwieldy Hasbro shopping bag were not light, by any means. So I'd probably bet so.
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