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Mattel delays are becoming annoying.
Topic Started: Jan 12 2012, 02:19 AM (625 Views)
Yandy
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i keep this mellow for now.

so mattel keeps delaying product and pushing things back and it seem like they can't keep their subscription on track.

some folks are becoming victim to bankruptor because mattel can't can figure out how and when to charge correctly anymore.

Since it's all very confusing they might as well offer the pre-order system because next year people are going to drop off like flies and it all seems to be flowing downhill now anyways.

What's next 2013 sub figure delivers in 2017?
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See my post on breakable plastic.

A soulution is stop buying mattels crap.!
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can't, it's my plastic crack. :ilikeit:

i won't be selling ass for it rest assured,

I'm just saying this years subscription deal has already been a hassle
you have to monitor the internet/email because it's teh crap and matty has kept changing everything.
last years subscription hasn't even cleared for some of us.
mine's been charged but cancelled on my history invoice. :plasma:

matty's a dumbass, digital river can't get it together much either, and if next year sounds like the same crap then it'll be cherry picker year for me finally.
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I have yet to buy anything
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Thanos, do you have any MotU Classics?

he-man.org thread-STRANGE-Happening-at-Mattycollector-com

Heheh...I'm not even logged into matty and i got this today,
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No I do not.
I thought about getting a couple o the Evil Lynn's.
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Digtial River is complete crap.

Mattel is fucking cheap, website cheap, check, Toys extra cheap, plastic check.


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St.Thanos
Feb 9 2012, 01:20 AM
No I do not.
I thought about getting a couple o the Evil Lynn's.
I'm pretty content on the selections so far. Faker & Scare Glow are pretty awesome and evil Lyn is just win!

The Palace guards and Trapjaw probably have the most fun factor though Boyo.

There's flaws here and there but for the most part I've had a better ratio of figures that were up to par.

Maybe, i'll do my pay-it-forward thing again someday & send you a couple surprises if I can still find an address for ya'.

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Digtial River is complete crap.

Mattel is fucking cheap, website cheap, check, Toys extra cheap, plastic check.



i don't know about cheap, It's a big operation even though they play it down as small. I just don't buy the kool-aid when MotU is their biggest franchise in the boys department and that it's their property that they don't have to really do any liscensing with. I will say this though....Mattel isn't exactly keeping all it's ducks in row.

We've known since SDCC that they were finally going to try tying up the 3yr. hiatus of combining shipping. they should've had the new interface beta tetsed by now and had most of the bugs worked out. It really doesn't seem that way.

There's a lot of shit still in limbo in many instances for alot of folks, at this point I don't even know myself where i stand in my subscriptions.

I can see where some people are panicking and getting irate, I'm personaly not going to give a damn, I've got the money set aside regardless of how they work out this shit but I still don't like the fact that i don't know what to look forward to exactly.

I could've been an ass and completed the order yesterday although I only needed the webstor head, I wonder what would have happened and how much more it would've screwed shit up.

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There is only one solution: don't be an enabler. :D

I keep hearing how those current MotU figures are prone to problems, and not worth the high price and hassle. I think they look cool and it's amazing to see all the characters they are releasing, but if fans were not paying for it, Mattel would be forced to turn to some alternate plan. You know they would not let He-Man lie for long.

Personally, I think they could support fans with these classic figures, but also do something new with the brand for kids and sell them in actual stores. Been 10 years now since the last major attempt at mainstream...

I will admit, I considered getting a couple of the new figures, but it seems like it will just be one more huge money sink and I cannot afford to start that kind of path. It is crack, indeed.

But I do like that Battleground Teela figure. :)

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well here's my situation.

back when fisto, sorceress, and shadow weaver were due out...well...I didn't want to go public with this until it was resolved but...

In short terms, I did something not so ethical, i glitched their system.

They put those 3 characters in my cart before the sale started. i added a sorceress which in turn added a fisto, and then another shadow weaver. I figured the order wouldn't go through, or if anything I'd send the free shadow weaver back at my own expense.

let me take time out to say that DR should be up with the times by now and should have done implemented combining shipping at least for subscribers.

Anyhows, DR sent me an email saying they cancelled that order and would refund me the money. I thought cased closed>moving on, except that it isn't.

they sent me my regular eternian subscrription (I had 2) but then they sent me the glitched order as well. i had to check with my bank to see if I was ever charged or refunded and i was neither so DR once again showed me their ignorance and incapability. I'll give them credit for trying to communicate for once and for even trying to rectify the situation although they still fucked up and sent me 9 free figures anyways..(3 fistos, 3 sorceresses, 3 shadow weavers.)

My sub was cancelled before kobra kahn was released and they said to call the matty hotline if i had questions. I refuse to call that number until they get someone in there that can understand english a bit more or until they get someone in there that won't give me the run around and won't leave me in limbo. My questions are why is DR so fucking ignorant when it comes to e-commerce and why isn't mattel dropping them for their inabilities and insufficiencies?

I PM'd the big G-man about the situation but I'm a pee-on so i didn't get an answer as to what to do or whom to call.

I still don't see any improvements to ordering at mattycollector like he promised, nor any signs of the Customer Relationships improving.

I don't feel comfortable holding all these free figures and do plan on sending them back or paying for what I can but not having a sub has actually been cheaper and less stressful.


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I wonder? if the rest of your hair will fall out :P
Like I said, stop buying.... and the pain will go away.
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Remember that guy who worked on 2002 line ?
I think his name was adam? he made a bunch promises too
and nothing changed. These toy reps are nothing but spin doctors.
Give you a cookie & pat on the head and hope you will shut up.

Nothing will change until like Northy says.. stop enabling mattel
and things might change.
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i'm cancelled and in limbo boyo.

so i'm not obligated to buy anything from matty anymore.

all i'm going to say is the sub is designed to relieve the collector and make things simpler for ordering but to me its proven to be more of a burden so far.

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Hey man, buy them if you enjoy it, but if it is causing you stress and leaving you unhappy don't feel like you must buy to keep up. It's that simple.
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i plan to, as I've said before i was lucky with most of my figures.

i try not to get caught up in the drama actually, the frustration for me only occured when it came to having the subscription with the recent delays, being in limbo, or dealing with DR's crap-ass customer realations.

remember when we could order from afx or the he-store?

you paid for what you wanted ahead of time, as many as you wanted, plus the money was transferred right away. it was much simpler ordering process to say the least.

sure delays happened, but even then the situations were never as bad as mattycollector. The worst thing that happened was the faker/kahn staction 2-pack getting cancelled and in the end people getting refunded money that they long forgot about.

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