I saw the link on the MMMV & pounced immediately on the BBTS offer & although I'm sceptical whether I'll actually get them it cant hurt trying  

If anybody is interested BBTS are also offering the Spinner as well which isn't a bad deal for what is a quite beautiful bit of kit . http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/search.aspx?search=blade+runner

Karamazov80 .......now where have I seen that name before?  Aren't you the Cosbaby fan?

To answer your question ........first realise that regards English language conventions ,British English is fundamentally different to American English. The use of  the double inverted commas ,"" ,are, for example ,used in both quotation & speech displays in American English whereas in British English they are (or should be) used in speech displays only . Whilst that is not absolutely relevant to your question it is of course essential to emphasise that the notation of each of our languages in their respective written forms may differ. My use of the single inverted commas ,in this instance the word 'friend' ,is another convention known as 'scare quote' which is simply a way of using a word although distancing oneself from its dictionary/thesaurus definition by placing the word within single inverted commas.  I used the word friend in such a manner to emphasise that the person sending the items is obviously a friend although in the eyes of the customs authorities he is an anonymous sender of items & not a retailer or an accomplice.  Check this out ......especially the last 3 words which undoubtedly refer to me http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node31.html

I hope that 'helped'    


 

Quote from: buttheadsmate on September 18, 2010, 05:38 PM

Often don't? Sometimes do ?     

Asians lie. Yanks don't.

Thanks for that .....very helpful .

Quote from: Symposium on September  6, 2009, 03:00 AM

I've found Hong Kong sellers the cheapest for postage followed by Japan and then the states. It really depends on what you're buying of course .

Thanks, I'll bare that it mind. I'd just seen single figures from the states with postage at £17 which I thought was a bit extreme.

I'm in the UK & although I'm just a lurker I buy most of my stuff from the US,Japan & HK/China. Whether my opinion is worth anything being a newbie & all    but you should also consider 'HM Customs' who often tend to charge import duty on high cost 'declared' items from the US yet tend to turn a blind eye to virtually everything I buy from HK/China & Japan. Until you get stung you tend to dismiss this as 'happening to someone else' but can often add up to a fair sum of money. Just saying.   

All this patch/no patch stuff sounds like errors to me... 

Of course that is absolutely what I have ......no more than a factory error of the McQ/Johnston Boba Fett    You'll hopefully excuse my question asked in the previous post but I was pretty confused there for a minute. The McQ/J Boba Fett seems to be a rarity (singly & loose) on ebay & it is pretty ironic that I now have to search for a normal 'normal' when I've secured all the chases

Maybe double check what you're looking at.

The Johnston/McQuarrie Fett shouldn't have pockets at all.

Every image I've seen shows one pocket & the carded 'McQ/J' I have has one pocket .  The McQ/J is identical to the McQ apart from the head .....mine is anyhow.

.....& the extra pocket 

These are now hitting ebay at $138 plus shipping.