MP Soundwave now out in TRU stores here

[Wheelie]

I've put my name down at a number of stores, if they call back I'll post the replies up

[drifand]

Is poor judgement. Ghost starscream is not everyone's cup of tea.

I remembered Bandai stopped on Macross 1/55 valks because they picked a bad one to reissue and the hot ones were left out. Same deal here, poor market research.

I am hoping I can still grab one in Perth.

[mknell]

I've put my name down at a number of stores, if they call back I'll post the replies up

which stores?

[Sinnertwin]

Is poor judgement. Ghost starscream is not everyone's cup of tea.

I remembered Bandai stopped on Macross 1/55 valks because they picked a bad one to reissue and the hot ones were left out. Same deal here, poor market research.

I am hoping I can still grab one in Perth.

Ghost Starscream was also originally priced $100 more than Soundwave.
They have also ordered an extra 120 units of Acid Storm compared to Thundercracker too. And its not all about market research & what the fans want, there are also a lot of variables which have to be taken into account when ordering.

[wardok]

Speaking with the "person in charge" at the Garden City store, she described the exact same thing - online orders are sent to the nearest store to your Postcode, and if that store is out of stock, the order just keeps getting transferred to the next nearest store....

...As Sinnertwin commented, I told her that that would have to be the most difficult process to do, just to minimise shipping costs... as there would have to be a lot of orders cancelled/refunded,

Another flaw of this process is that if a store has not unpacked their pallets, the computer system will only see 'out of stock' and then move on to the next-closest store looking for one that can fulfil your online order. Potentially, after a few hops, your order could be rejected and reported to you as 'unavailable.' Meanwhile, the stores that hadn't unpacked yet have now unpacked, and their stock is out on the shelves a day or so later.

Case in point - My house mate ordered online. His order has been confirmed as dispatched from NSW (we're in SA.) Based on the system described above, we must assume there was NO STOCK in SA yesterday.

BUT, THERE WAS. Trucks with stock arrived in SA yesterday. I can confirm that. The store closest me didn't unpack until today, and contacted me. when I arrived they still hadn't unpacked properly - stock was out the back. Now I'm looking at the two-piece shipping carton (173 of 300, to be exact.) And can tell you that Hasbro's warehouse in Regents Park NSW, marked the box as received from Hong Kong on Oct 31 (last Thursday.)


Basically, I'm unconvinced that that is how the on-line orders work, it just seems too convoluted and hard to manage. I will concede happily though, if someone else has more supporting evidence!

W

[kaiden]

I called Gepps Cross SA and they have it in stock but won't have them out for display until tomorrow morning.

[Wheelie]

which stores?

Castle hill and Bankstown, although I can't guarantee that they'll call me when they get their shipments

[drifand]

Ghost Starscream was also originally priced $100 more than Soundwave.
They have also ordered an extra 120 units of Acid Storm compared to Thundercracker too. And its not all about market research & what the fans want, there are also a lot of variables which have to be taken into account when ordering.

Such as finding out that they should have imported more for this and now ponder about profit they could have make?

Not even going to start about mp-10 as some of us didn't even see one in TRU Perth. I didn't see Thundercracker either.

[drifand]

Basically, I'm unconvinced that that is how the on-line orders work, it just seems too convoluted and hard to manage. I will concede happily though, if someone else has more supporting evidence!

W

Well the current evidence is we cannot order in Perth.

[Sinnertwin]

Such as finding out that they should have imported more for this and now ponder about profit they could have make?

Not even going to start about mp-10 as some of us didn't even see one in TRU Perth. I didn't see Thundercracker either.

TRU would have been aware of the interest when they first put up the item on their website back in June. They could have amended their order if it was possible to reflect the interest.
The product would've been ordered and payed for based on their allocated budget.
Have you raised the issues you've been having with previous MP's in Perth with TRU's head office?
And why are you that concerned?

got my takara backup soundwave so this isn't too bad.