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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 12, 2019 15:36:00 GMT -5
My bad, yeah loose. I've dealt with a company before, but don't think they have anything to the specific dimensions I want unless I custom order. I'd like something like these: customdisplaycases.com/die_cast_cases.htmAll sides see through, mirror back, flat sides etc, so it could be ever expandable by adding on next to or below existing cases. I may just end up contacting these guys again and seeing if they can customize to the shelf heights and depth for the figs. But was wondering if anyone had bought anything like this "off the shelf" already to the needed dimensions.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 12, 2019 15:08:47 GMT -5
Would anyone recommend a product?
I want glass or acrylic wall mount that would be good for Hasbros, something expandable would be ideal so I could add on depending how much my collection of retros and customs grows.
Just wondered if anyone had gone that route.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 12, 2019 13:19:59 GMT -5
My store has been sold to a carpet place
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 20:52:23 GMT -5
Thanks, Diesel was made by Hasbromaniacs, (I think, at least I bought it from him).
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 18:16:28 GMT -5
Wow, this is crazy, meanwhile Walmarts all over the country are getting cases of them. Does this happen with other lines? I thought RSC preorders were supposed to be filled before they show up at retail?
RSC can't be happy either, sure all the pre orders will be cancelled by the time they actually come in.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 16:54:33 GMT -5
Wow! He looks great now; even the difference in head size isn’t too noticeable here - great job This is why I’d have no problem with Mattel just re-sizing existing Elite or Basic designs in terms of heads or accessories if they decided to go that route to save money - it must be cheaper to do that than design something new from scratch, and if the end result is a choice between the HBK Retro as is vs. this one then there’s no contest for me. Use the budget savings on greater outfit details, accessories, or even new (or old Hasbro) action designs. Honestly, I can't even see a size difference between this head and the one I removed. Same with the vest, fits perfectly. When I got the elite that I took the parts from, I was actually surprised at the proportions of the body parts. But, I've never really had any elites or basics in hand before. Maybe it's just that since the Retros/Hasbros are cartoonish and scaled odd, that the head and accessories seem to fit just fine.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 16:18:44 GMT -5
Both HBKs look better than Mattels. Agree 100%. This went from a figure I wasn't going to even buy, to now one of my favorites. Not cheap though, Mattel has done well though to get even more of my money, so I could get the parts to customize.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 14:54:26 GMT -5
Thinking of trying the recent elite of HBK (Heartbreak Hotel set), taking the head and waist coat and putting them on this retro. Would it work? Or is the other figure too large in comparison for the parts to look ok? I think it would work as the pants/chaps would pass for his entrance gear at that time... post a pic if you do it(!). Paint bled through masking tape, so I'll need to try and fix that, but basically here's my modified HBK Retro. This was my first attempt at doing anything custom on my own since I was 12 and sloppily painting my duplicate Hasbros. The waist coat and chaps are different shades of red, but I still love how it looks, same basic design w/the crosses and all. Great fix for anyone that wants a mid 90's HBK in entrance gear.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 11, 2019 9:00:26 GMT -5
It’s a work Lol maybe the said it to sell more rings This. Yes those guys love wrestling figures but the show is a platform to sell toys and for them to trade nonsense for stuff they want. Marks are buying it hook line and sinker. The entire show is sponsored by ringside as is all of the stuff they give away. Yes, and no. I think it is aimed to move figures, but I would think that's good to get more of the GP interested and give Mattel reason to make more stuff. I especially hope it works with the retros that at least Zach has a special love for. But, they also talk a lot about non-current/non-mattel items especially Hasbro, Jakks, and LJN. And that doesn't serve much purpose to RSC or Mattel, just to the secondary market. I can tell they genuinely love the hobby and I do enjoy the show, even though the ads get annoying at times, but I guess that's how most mainstream promoted podcasts are. Most of the other wrestling shows I listen to are more independent though, I really don't listen to anything done by stars/formers stars of the business.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 10, 2019 13:17:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean it's better than current. And with Sheik and JYD, would be cool have more pre Hasbro era to go along with them. I hate having like one or two guys from a particular era/promotion. NWO Macho just shouldn't exist without Hall, Nash, Hogan, Syxx. Yeah, though Studd fits both mid 80s and 1989 since his look didn't change. Though if they are going to go that route, which is fine, they need a Hogan, heel Piper, face Andre, Bundy, Orton, Orndorff, Volkoff, Bulldogs, heel Hart Foundation, IC era Valentine, IC era Tito, IC era Steamboat, a Magnificent Muraco, George Steele, Ventura, heel Beefcake, a young heel Jake, a young heel Savage, early Hercules Hernandez, the Killer Bees, the US Express, King Harley Race, maybe even a Mr. T if they could get the rights. Totally agree with you on the NWO Savage, he looks completely out of place without Hollywood Hogan, Hall, Nash, and Syxx. Also, of all the legends they have made, I think NWO Savage is definitely the worst (took the spot away from Warrior) - and this hurts to say. The head just looks awful, to me it looks nothing like him. Would have much rather had a long tights Macho King over an NWO. Agree the head is awful. But I still like him better than Warrior. I just despise the split torso, plus being pretty much same attire as the first Hasbro, he doesn't really fit in anywhere in my display. I'd absolutely love any long tights early 90's Macho.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 10, 2019 4:53:40 GMT -5
First off, please don't let one or even a few bad apples ruin selling things on a platform like eBay for you. Yes, there are some real shmucks out there who will give you a giant headache from time to time. But, the vast majority of buyers are just honest folks looking to buy something. I've been buying and selling on eBay for over a decade and only had a handful of really bad experiences. Situations like yours really suck because this buyer clearly had every intention of doing some shady crap right from the start. In no way would any buyer ever be entitled to a partial refund because they think they overpaid. That's just asinine right there. Unfortunately, this is probably the biggest problem with being a lower level eBay seller (they'll bend over backwards to help out power sellers, but don't seem to care a whole lot for small, part-time sellers). Any seller absolutely should be allowed to leave negative feedback for a buyer when it's warranted and eBay removing that option is one of the worst things they're ever done. Sadly, putting a disclaimer in your listings wouldn't really help at all. Yes, it might be a good idea because some unscrupulous buyers might be frightened off by it, but ultimately, whenever you sell something on eBay, you agree to eBay's rules regardless of what you put in your listing. For instance, you can say all payments are due in 24 hours and anything not paid within 24 hours will be cancelled and relisted if you like, but the reality is that eBay allows 2 days before you can even open a non-payment case against a buyer and then allows the buyer an additional 4 days before you can close that case. So, it doesn't really matter what you right in your listing, you're still going to be beholden to eBay's policies and regulations. eBay does usually side with the buyer in disputed, but not ALWAYS. And even if you do lose a case initially, it is possible to get that overturned. I had a sale one time where that came into play. I was doing custom painted and decorated vintage game consoles for a while. I'd buy ugly looking or broken consoles and controllers, fix them up and give them a nice custom paint job (kept me going for a while until stock consoles got too expensive to obtain). Most of the time, a new part or two and some know-how would get a supposedly broken system working like new again. This one time, I just couldn't get a system working again. Not wanting to just waste the parts, I decided to customize it anyway and sell if as a show-piece. I literally wrote both in the listing title "DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY" and in three different places within the body of the listing page "SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY - console will power one, but won't play games. Sold as a display piece only." Sure enough, I sold it and literally minutes after the delivery confirmation showed it as delivered, the buyer opens a Not As Described case claiming that the game system didn't work. Sure enough, because eBay uses a largely automated disputed process, the case was closed against me and the funds were removed from my paypal account, a refund automatically issued to the buyer, and the buyer left me negative feedback (my first and only non-positive feedback). I was pissed, so I called eBay customer service. They read off the script as they usually do until I spoke with a manager and politely requested that a human being actually read the description of the item in question. As soon as they actually did that, the manager promptly apologized, returned the funds to my paypal account, and removed the unwarranted negative feedback from my account. They buyer also had their account suspended for abusing the dispute process. So, yeah, you might initially lose a dispute, but if it's not a justified reason, just put up a stink about it (in a polite manner - yelling and screaming and blaming eBay customer service won't get you anywhere) and it can be changed. Point is that sure, you're gonna run into some crappy buyers looking to scam you on eBay (or any sale platform). But, the positives will almost always outweigh the negatives. Just look at the numbers for your own history. At least 200 sales and only 2 or 3 issues. That's like 1% of the time you have a problem, meaning that 99% of the time it works out splendidly. That's pretty danged good odds. In the future, you might try a tactic that I've found pretty useful in weeding out a few more crap buyers. List things at a Buy It Now price with the Best Offer option. Set you Buy It Now price higher than your normally would and do NOT set an automatic acceptance level for your Best Offer. Almost any buyer interested in what you're selling will try to get it cheaper if they can, so they'll send an offer. Not having an automatically accepted price point will allow you, as a seller, to sort of pre-screen the buyer by looking into their location, feedback history, and other such factors. Then you can better respond to them by counter-offering or declining (and they blocking the buyer if you got skeevy vibes from them). I'm pretty sure I've avoided at least a few headaches that way. I really do appreciate the time you must have taken to write that response. I posted the same question on the ebay message boards and got pretty much the same responces. I've thought about doing the best offer in the past, but I just hate having to respond to offers all day. So I have begun doing that anyway to avoid some of these things down the road. I'll just jack up all my prices add the best offer, and auto decline anything low ball, and then be able to review feedback before commiting to sales. I get sometimes I won't be able to weed them out based on feedback, especially relatively new users, but I would have avoided this guy. I can tell he loves to leave negs/nuetrals, and in most cases when I looked them up, his feedback was the only negatives in those seller's profiles. In the meantime I did report the guy, doubt anything will come of it, and it's proably not worth my time to track down a real person at ebay on the phone and then trying to understand broken English to resolve an issue.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 10, 2019 4:49:57 GMT -5
If you cancel an order the buyer would probably leave a negative or neutral feedback, if it was me, I'd have rejected the request for money back and had him return it Yeah, but then it's a wash anyway after what I paid in shipping and a return label ebay would have charged me. And then I run the risk of it being returned screwed up or him not even sending the same item back. And there's really no way of proving anything.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 10, 2019 4:43:34 GMT -5
Not sure, maybe I'm mistaken, thought he was rumored to be in the lineup with JYD? Maybe someone else has that rumored list. Maybe he was, but I don't remember seeing it. Though, I'd wouldn't mind a Big John Studd figure he was sorta in the Hasbro era. Yeah, I mean it's better than current. And with Sheik and JYD, would be cool have more pre Hasbro era to go along with them. I hate having like one or two guys from a particular era/promotion. NWO Macho just shouldn't exist without Hall, Nash, Hogan, Syxx.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 22:47:03 GMT -5
Guess this would go here, since it's off topic, but on topic.
I was just wondering if it's ever justifiable by ebay standards and not get negative feedback as a result of canceling a BIN purchase?
Recently had an issue with a buyer and a MOC Hasbro I sold.
Now, I saw issues possibly coming after reviewing his feedback, and then sure enough, guy wants partial refund. Firstly, he said he wanted it because he "overpaid", and even before it was delivered.
Then after it was delivered he claimed it wasn't as described and opened a case, I just gave in and did the partial refund, since that's what I would have lost after paying for the return label plus what I paid to ship it in the first place. Also didn't want to take the chance he'd purpously damage it before sending it back, or not even send the same one back.
Had I just cancelled the order before shipping it, added him to my blocked buyers list and relisted, could have avoided the whole situation.
But, I know if I cancel an order they could leave me negative feedback.
If I put a clear disclaimer in my listings that I can cancel an order for any reason, would that cover me at all? Or wouldn't matter?
It just sucks for a seller that ebay will always side with the buyer and there's no way to weed it out with the "bidder requirements" or whatever it's called page. If you can't leave a neg. or nut. for a buyer, there's no way for the feedback to ever matter in that flawed system.
Sorry for the long post, just very annoyed and frustrated by this. I've had at least 200 ebay sales over the years and only had like 2 or 3 issues. But it really just sours me on the whole thing.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 22:03:12 GMT -5
Agree, I was getting optimistic lately with some of the upcoming lineups w/ Goldust, JYD, Studd and Diesel tease. I hope they're starting to figure out who the line should really be aimed at and start to reflect that more with coming releases. If there's at least 2 proper flashbacks (not modern versions of legends like HBK, Jericho and Goldberg), I'll be pretty pleased, as long as they keep pumping them out and I can build up a decent collection sometime soon. I heard about Goldust, JYD, and Diesel, when was Studd announced? Not sure, maybe I'm mistaken, thought he was rumored to be in the lineup with JYD? Maybe someone else has that rumored list.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 17:05:56 GMT -5
At some point, they stop making things, people. Even the Hasbro ring was discontinued while the line was going. They made the KOTR version but they stopped the blue one. Same with current rings. And let's not act like the retro line is all of the sudden a huge seller just cause a podcast talks it up and 2 new waves came out. These things, regardless of reasons why, sat on shelves. Someone recently on twitter had a pic of them on clearance for like $9 with tons of them on the shelf I'm still sorta optimistic about the line, S7 seems to be doing well at Walmart. As long as Mattel has a better idea of what sorta quantities of each wave to make and doesn't flood stores with case upon case of the same guys, maybe they'll do good from here on out? Make and distribute X amount of one wave, move on to the next so there's constantly relevant product in stores. As long as they can avoid another S3 situation where Targets were just flooded with them for a year plus. And if they decide to go a bit more flashback heavy from here on out, I think that will really help out. Most recent few sets are much more colorful and varied in action/poses too than S3, S4 etc.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 6:54:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I would think if there's a demand at some point they would redo it in a different color or add cage or something cool. Amazon still had them for 17.99 as of last night, so I ordered a few just incase.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 6:51:02 GMT -5
Well persistence paid off and I got the rest of what I needed this morning. Hey quick question, anyone know if the scarf comes off Jericho? I picked up 2 extra of him for customs, but don't want to open them if the scarf doesn't come off without damaging the torso.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 9, 2019 2:29:56 GMT -5
Just heads up, Ryder and Hawkins were talking about the ring maybe being out of production on their new episode.
So if anyone needs one may be a good time to pick them up while still available pretty cheap.
Wonder why they would discontinue it though? Do these figs fit with any other ring currently made? Hope that's not bad news for the figures themselves.
Or maybe they'll put out another one in a few months with a different color/decal scheme?
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Feb 8, 2019 16:41:09 GMT -5
Walmarts are different with stocking days/times. Two others show 16 on hand but they're 1/2 hour away in different directions. Probably didn't put those out yet and employees don't help you find crap. Nope, and they're all on palets, so they won't locate them. They need to get their crap together and push product to the floor when it's off the truck. Never see half empty aisles at a Target.
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