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BBTS is driving me mad!
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04-08-2008, 02:31 AM
poddie
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People need to stop ragging on BBTS. Every time I read a complaint about them it seems obvious that people just don't understand how the process works, and haven't put any thought into the logistics of it.
(1) Timing: They order a certain number of cases from Hasbro. Hasbro does not make any promises on how many they will receive at what time. They may receive 30% of the order in the initial shipment or 10%. It may show up in March or April or May or June. It is simply not up to them.
(2) Pricing: $8.99 for an army builder is not robbery. More than $4.99 for any figure is not robbery. An operation like BBTS does not get the same pricing as Wal-Mart. Their orders are nearly insignificant in comparison. And if they priced army builders the same as the peg warmers their selection would be exactly the same as when you go to your local Target. They would have 40 buzzers, 10 Serpentors, and 20 Stalkers. And they will be at full price. Instead, they give deals on the less hot figures and price the hotter figures reasonably when demand and supply is factored in. They never try to get $15 or $20 for a preorder figure, just enough to spread out their cost across all the figures they get in the cases.
(3) Hasbro will not make special cases up for them. It is nowhere near a large enough order for it. And no, they can't magically create a case for you that Hasbro hasn't shipped to them... the assortment of figures is not available to them to do it. Where would they get the Torpedo, CC, and Rock n Rolls? They simply don't have them.
So as soon as TRU starts paying attention to packaging condition, allowing organized preorders, providing "pile of loot"-like shipping options (saves TONS of money), and does everything in their power to get things out as well as they can (as BBTS does) someone let me know.
In the meantime, I will continue preordering product from one of the best mail order places I have ever dealt with.
Sorry, I just get irked when people badmouth places that have been really good to us without a second thought...
Last edited by poddie; 04-08-2008 at
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