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Kubricks / Re: Waiting for the next Kubrick Series to drop. . . .
« on: August 26, 2009, 03:15 PM »
Any medicom updates this month?
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I looked into HLJ, but they have a 180,000yen minimum order (pre-paid in full) to enter the wholesaler program and around 500,000Yen in orders per year. That works out to around $5500 per year in orders... that total isn't exactly impossible to get to given how spendy Kubricks are getting, but it was definitely way to much to just jump in without researching their program a bit more. Unfortunately, the S10 and BFC order deadlines passed before I could work out all the details/paperwork with them, so a group buy never materialized this year.
Buying bulk from HLJ could be an option for the Deluxe Series 1 & 2, but it is still way too early in the process to get anything started there... if you are one of the new folks, check out the threads for Series 7/8/9 and you will see how the past group buys have sort of worked - we wait for the "official" Medicom website update before we even really worry about getting a group buy list started.
Have you guys ever thought of forming a collective of sorts to import Kubs at wholesale? Like I see about 10 + people or so on here bought boxes of the boba collection, would it make since for someone to become the "importer" and everyone placed their order with this person? Just a thought but it may prove to be able to save money, I remember reading HLJ does offer wholesale pricing. .
Jeff was pretty much the designated 'importer' for a lot of folks when Robby.jp was around and the prices were good (better?). With the loss of Robby though I don't think anyone has really offered anything of a bulk discount that really amounts to wholesale pricing. With the price increases on the master cases and the shift away from Robby's better (and true wholesale) pricing, the ability of a lot of people to afford a master case for themselves went away. There's no benefit it seems to ordering a master case from the perspective of getting an individual box out of it. Well, not quite true - it should improve your odds to getting a 'chase' box to one in two, but with Medicom not guaranteeing anything and seeing the frequency of dud master cases (no 1/96 chase) then that benefit disappears. I think NCSX may be the future.
Interestingly in ordering single boxes (as opposed to master cases) my success rate is one in four boxes. They were only common chases but I was still darn happy.
Welcome chap!
Hold onto your wallet.
Well, with our newest member, we now have the following breakdown:
evenflow - no chases
bigj22 - L-Slot chase
efranks - no chases
I Am Sith - ?
Jeff - ?
Dan - ?
Outcast34 - ?
chap - L-Slot chase
Not liking my chances for a rare chase this time around, but I'd be psyched to get two commons...