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Collectibles => Disney Parks Droid Factory => Topic started by: Rob on May 4, 2021, 11:28 AM
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Jayson's got another scoop... I'm not clear on if we can order this one or if it's in park only, but here it is:
(https://i.imgur.com/yYUCsjQ.jpg)
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Comments on social media are everything you’d expect with a dash of even worse at times.
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I hope it turns up online so I can pick one up. I have skipped quite a few of the goofy repaint BB-units but I am a total sucker for any and all R-series astromech repaints they want to crank out. I can find a place on my shelf for this proud little R2-unit.
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eBay prices have stopped from about $50 a few days ago to about $35 now... hoping that means there’s no limit on them. When it hits about $20 shipped I’ll just get one there to be done with it.
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Are these already *out* (see what I did there)?
Jayson mentioned these would be associated with Pride month (June).
I'll be looking to pick one of these up too when they price gets reasonable.
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I believe they are since they’re hitting eBay.
I’m waiting for friends to go to the park or the app but I want it.
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I think it's cool that Disney did this for Pride month. I just bought one for $28 shipped. My daughter loves rainbow stuff and she's really getting into Star Wars. This one is for her!
Also trying to verify what the Aurebesh text is. I translated it as DROID BUILD.
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I like it and will definitely get one if I can.
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Grabbed one for $28 shipped as well.
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It's growing on me. And Nick, I can see how kids would be attracted to the colors.
Might have to try getting 2 -- one for my collection and the second to replace the first should my toddler niece take a liking to it and decides she wants it.
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I couldn't hold back the surprise. I got some bad news today, so I showed her the picture. She loved it. So I told her that I ordered it for her. She was thrilled! And it helped me for just a little while.
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I like this one, like what it represents. My "supplier" was able to grab a couple for me today while he was at Hollywood Studios. I'll be there at the end of July, and I suppose there's a chance they might still be there then, but I didn't want to risk it...
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I bit and ordered one for $30 shipped last night. I usually pay $22 or $23 anyway, and decided the extra few dollars was worth it to be done.
You should all be able to get them for $22 in a week or two now.
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I went in on this droid shipped for $28 last week too, and I pretty much never get the Disney droids. I think I have only gone in on Chopper and the Depot 5-pack previously. This one is something special, I feel.
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Got mine yesterday - lots of paint deco on this one - I was pleasantly surprised by how extensive the rainbow design is on the figure
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Maybe the other people who bought there's for $28 didn't do so from same seller, but are you having any issues with the seller? The estimated arrival date for mine when I bought it was tomorrow. It was marked as shipped day I bought it but still hasn't made it to the PO. When I asked yesterday he said he didn't have a good box for it until yesterday and that it had shipped. Still no update on shipping tonight. I'm in no rush to get it but hate when sellers dawdle and then give you run around answers.
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I’ve had a couple purchases recently where it is marked shipped but not sent for several days. Same kind of setup you probably have where the guy might not even possess it yet he has sold it and marked it as shipped. Mine have all turned out okay but it still bugs.
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Maybe the other people who bought there's for $28 didn't do so from same seller, but are you having any issues with the seller? The estimated arrival date for mine when I bought it was tomorrow. It was marked as shipped day I bought it but still hasn't made it to the PO. When I asked yesterday he said he didn't have a good box for it until yesterday and that it had shipped. Still no update on shipping tonight. I'm in no rush to get it but hate when sellers dawdle and then give you run around answers.
Because you mentioned it I looked into mine, which was a $28 one also. He generated a tracking number the day I bought mine too, it is scheduled tobe here by Friday, but when I track it the post office is still waiting for item.
I sent him a message asking why it hasn't been received at the post office yet and his reply was "idk. I don't work there."
So I asked him flat out in a follow-up if he had taken it to the post office already, and he quickly replied that he has. Supposedly he is going to ask the post office tomorrow what happened to it.
I run my business through the mail, and while I've dealt with a lot of crazy things through the USPS in the last 6 months, when I drop off a package it gets scanned in that day. Hundreds of times, without fail. When packages stop getting scanned for tracking it is usually en route. So I don't know that I take this guy's story at face value...but it's not like I'm worried about being ripped off or anything either. It is just slimy.
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Totally unrelated to figures but related still to eBay, I’m getting a lot of people who make tracking info but it never actually ships. I wait till the estimated time is up and then file a claim. I’ve had to file more claims this year than I’d filed in all the time I’d been on eBay combined. I don’t know wtf is up but people are being chodes on eBay anymore.
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Yeah the shipped notification happens when you print the label, not when it’s at the post office. Some people know this and take advantage, then blame the post office. The best you can do is give lower ratings when filling out all the 5-star options when giving feedback.
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Yeah I get my $ back and then 1 Star them and out the scam in comments.
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It was processed through his home PO today so at least it's on its way now.
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I've been using eBay for 20 years now and I don't think I've ever had someone not mail me what I ordered. I can't recall it every happening. Maybe I'm just lucky? It's not like I don't use it, I have a 1600 feedback rating at this point...
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I don't want to admit my rating, but I've had numerous occasions where items aren't sent. It's especially frustrating when it's something rare or an item I've won for a good price. So this would have been more about principle than it being difficult to buy another at same cost. I also don't buy the Park exclusives if not for cost typically so that just added to my annoyance.
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It was processed through his home PO today so at least it's on its way now.
Same here, I am almost positive we must have ordered from the same guy.
I heckled him a bit this morning, reminding him to check up on my package today and warning him I would follow up with eBay if this thing isn't en route like he was claiming. His response was to tell me he would go to the post office and have them recall the package so he could refund me and not deal with me. I don't even know if that's a real thing you can do, but I told him I was only interested in a refund if he was admitting he hadn't sent it yet. He doubled down on his story that it was already mailed out and got even more pissy about it.
It finally got accepted at his local post office just after that. I sent him a snarky message about that amazing coincidence, and he snarked back. Eventually he called me a crybaby and I responded that he was a lying liar who lies. He finally told me he was going to go through with "recalling" the package (which he said he had tracked to Texas somehow in the 4 hours since it had arrived at his California post office) and refunding my money to cancel the sale. Neither of which has happened yet, but eh, who knows? It looks like there are plenty out there to buy now, so either way will work for me.
It just rankles me that he printed the shipping on Friday and didn't ship it til Wednesday, then pawned it off as a post office error. It feels to me like he took the sales he made and used that money to buy the figures afterward. And that's not in and of itself a bad thing as long as it is done in good faith. I keep my own costs down by only printing and assembling an item I sell after it has sold. But I tell the buyer that is what is happening up front, disclose a 3-5 day handling time in the listing, and only print the label to start the tracking when I am going to put it in the mailbox. Maybe I took it too personal because he was "cheating" to get better seller ratings than I can by playing straight? I dunno.
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I've been using eBay for 20 years now and I don't think I've ever had someone not mail me what I ordered. I can't recall it every happening. Maybe I'm just lucky? It's not like I don't use it, I have a 1600 feedback rating at this point...
I buy from a lot of Chinese or Chinese resellers in the US. The Chinese based sellers I find are super reliable. The Chinese US based resellers, outlets, or whatever, used to be reliable, but it’s them I’m having issues with now. One cancelled my order outright and recently, one sent a tracking via DHL that basically showed nothing traceable and even EBay was perplexed. That one I got a refund. Then something similar happened with another... then another never even sent tracking information or anything. They don’t even respond to eBay once I open a case and contact them. It’s weird.
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Btw you can’t “recall” a package from usps. That’s not a thing lol.
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Btw you can’t “recall” a package from usps. That’s not a thing lol.
Yep, just another one of his lies. It amazes me that he would want to be so petty with a customer, but maybe he hates his life of selling Disney Park exclusives on eBay?
Anyway the package showed up yesterday, though it should have arrived last Tuesday. It's done, and I love that droid, it is over the top and perfect.
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That seller is a clown who's trying to work the eBay system. eBay policy says that items should ship within a certain period of time following the sale. I think that's around 2 - 3 business days. Most likely the sale happened and for some reason he couldn't follow through with shipping the order within eBay's shipping window. So he prints the label within that timeframe, but takes his sweet time getting it to the USPS for dropoff. The longest amount of time I might take from a sale to shipping is 2 - 3 days, and that's only if the sale happens after the USPS closes on Saturday and it's a holiday weekend. It's rare, but it has happened.
The tracking data on the USPS app will tell the tale. I just sold a POTF2 CommTech R2-D2 with holographic Leia on eBay. It sold on Friday night, and I shipped it out yesterday. Looking at the tracking data for that item, it shows me when the shipping label was created (6:53 AM) and when it was accepted by USPS (3:19 PM). And I don't even use costly shipping. You get all of that info from sending a First Class package via USPS. If there's no acceptance scan? Then the guy is full of ****.
If he would have been honest I wouldn't think it was a big deal. But lying is just inexcusable - especially when it's such a blatant, dumb lie.
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You are exactly right Nick--and I had fun poking every hole in his excuses when 5 days after he supposedly dropped it off it coincidentally got its acceptance scan at the post office after I got on him about it.
Oh well. I will have to settle for not leaving him any feedback, he is one of those retaliators who gives a negative for a negative (or a neutral) by the looks of his record. And calls people names like "bipolar case" in that negative feedback. A real winner indeed.
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People are just such dicks anymore. Why are you on eBay selling if the bare minimum work of putting the thing in the mail on time is so taxing you’re willing to go through the hubbub that doofus did? I just do not get it at all.
I have delays getting to the PO too at times but 5 days? Cmon. Even the black knight in Monty Python coulda managed to get there in time.
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Calling him a "Lying liar who lies" gave me a chuckle, LOL!
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Did everyone get this off Ebay or through Disney? Bet price I'm seeing on Ebay is $28 plus $5 shipping - not sure if I want this for $30+
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Did everyone get this off Ebay or through Disney? Bet price I'm seeing on Ebay is $28 plus $5 shipping - not sure if I want this for $30+
I'm still looking for one too. I'm hoping these hit the app or in higher quantities come June 1 when pride months starts.
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Did everyone get this off Ebay or through Disney? Bet price I'm seeing on Ebay is $28 plus $5 shipping - not sure if I want this for $30+
I'm still looking for one too. I'm hoping these hit the app or in higher quantities come June 1 when pride months starts.
I'll keep an eye out for it and maybe we can group order if it pops up. I can check with my Disney contact too.
*EDIT* Reached out to my Disney contact on FB to check stock and prices. Anyone else looking for these or just Dave and me?
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I'll keep an eye out for it and maybe we can group order if it pops up. I can check with my Disney contact too.
*EDIT* Reached out to my Disney contact on FB to check stock and prices. Anyone else looking for these or just Dave and me?
Me
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Sounds like they hit the parks briefly and were gone in a week. Probably see more of these pop up in the coming month.
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Real brief. My friend trying to pick one up for me said the cashier didn't realize they already received a batch.
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I guess these are pretty much dried up at parks and ebay.
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I guess these are pretty much dried up at parks and ebay.
Amazing how quick these came and went.
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Maybe I didn't search well enough but is there really only one on ebay and with a $90 bid?
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Maybe I didn't search well enough but is there really only one on ebay and with a $90 bid?
There is one out there? Usually there are zero.
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Three on ebay right now. The lowest is an auction with a $120 bid. Wow.
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Good grief. I’m glad I picked this one up early…
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I guess I'm not going to be picking up a second one just for myself. My daughter loves this droid!
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Hope they make more batches. Would suck if it was a one-and-done.
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Still no sign of more of these? What the heck happened?
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Maybe they simply underestimated demand and thought of it as a June / Pride thing only?
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Some of their stuff is super limited, so it’s not a first by any means. Look at the dathomir (which my phone keeps wanting to change to “fat homie”) astromech. That one also sold out fast and goes for stupid $. As I recall people were sorta overlooking that one too which seems to help fuel the prices rising then.
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Dathomir astromech? Which one was that???
*EDIT - nevermind. I did some searching and found out that it's R3-BOO17
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I'm now calling on Disney to make a Fat Homie astromech! ;D
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I know some people that went to the parks in June and these were nowhere to be found.
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I'm now calling on Disney to make a Fat Homie astromech! ;D
I too would buy a “fat homie” astromech. Disney needs to make this happen.