What makes me sad about reading this thread is the apparent lack of knowledge that the members here have about small business... not the delays from TBI.

They give cheap prices by probably (this is a guess) buying from overseas and importing by boat... this takes time, depends on when the container the dock loads is full enoug to send, and has to go through the port AND customs.... so no you won’t get your item on release day.

The one thing that appears to have lots of trouble arriving.... Versions of Megatron... did everyone forget he’s hard to get through customs without getting seized? That didn’t go away guys...

And as for refunds.... this isn’t big box retail with masses of funds from other areas or departments... there’s no shareholders for revenue raising... no hardware division to bail out the department store... no increase on pet food to cover savings on milk... this guy appears to be doing it right. Your money for MP-XX goes to the supplier of MP-XX, for the goods of MP-XX. So when you ask for a refund because you got tired of waiting, your money has already gone to his supplier... it’s not sitting in his bank account waiting for you to want it back. And if he was to refund, then he is stuck with an item no one wants any more, and he would ave to sell at a loss.

All this is common sense and should have been assumed when you placed your order. He had a problem with people understanding shipping and ordering... (who would have thought instock and preorder would be sent together when you paid one lot of shipping!!!) and because of this he had to change what he offered... and people still complain about (making this example up but close enough)wave 2 not arriving yet when it was ordered with wave 5... which hit retail today, so will be sent from his supplier next week sometime... we have become such a bunch of Veruca Salt’s singing “I want it now!!!” I’m embarrassed of our collecting community as a whole!

So if opyou order cheap, be patient... otherwise hope you see the 5 days it’s on preorder, pay the premium, get it from Japan and pay your gst and shipping and gst on shipping and stop complaining that you had to wait longer then those that paid for the “slow boat from China”