No big surprise, but one of my two CC claims were rejected.  Not sure why they didn't reject both at the same time.  Essentially they are defaulting to paypal's policy to file a claim and saying it is past the time allowed.  I guess using your CC through paypal doesn't actually give you an extra layer of protection for something like this.  Not the best policy for long lead preorder items in general.  Oddly the first claim rejected was the wave of 13 that I was trying to get a partial refund of since I received 2 of 13.  Bantha is still under research, but I'm not expected a different outcome.

It won't be that far of a move.  Within 30 minutes or so.  Not that I'm thinking of selling it, but just for the future in case I decide to get rid of everything, I was wondering if full disassembly was possible to put everything back in the original packaging.  So far, it is mostly disassembled.  Only things I haven't tried yet are the above mentioned sail posts...not really sure if the top portion can be separated from the main beam...and the feet underneath.  Everything else has come apart with no issue and is put back into the original packaging.  I just didn't want to force the thing and break something.

I used a MC, but order stuff December 21 and January 22 so it hasn't been as long.  We shall see how it goes.

I never thought the vintage custom world would be so crazy.

Just received my SS Bantha.  Very solid and the box art is amazing.  Preordered on 2/15 and in my hands four months later.  That is how you run a business.

I stumbled upon a facebook page about his business practices.  Apparently he has been sued around seven times in the past several years and lost six of the cases to the tune of around $30K total.  The thoughts are that Thrawn was something that was in production before he even announced the wave of 13 and that the ST Han is essentially left over product from when SS was running the company.  It seems that if you email customer service, that is when you actually receive something.  I did that around six months ago, and I got my loose Thrawn and ST Han at the same time.  It seems odd I got both at once while others were only getting Thrawn and then Han months later.  Supposedly, RFT and Sandtrooper are "in storage" in China.  Thoughts about these are they are leftovers from the multipacks he sold of these figures.  He claimed issues with Wedge and Biggs.  There are pictures of the prototype of those two.  Someone found an auction for a Beru and Owen that are thought to do be from the wave of 13.  They don't look all that hot.

I'm not surprised his site is showing out of stock.  Supposedly his etsy store is now closed as well.  I emailed customer service again last night to ask where my stuff is.  He also has done the third part of his update.  He had stated the updates were in three parts:  first was wave of 13 (no progress really), part two was Bantha (you guys need to contact the factory for me), and third was supposed to be "everything else" which I have no clue what that could be. 

I sent him a FB message about a year or so ago, and he claims they already had an ESB and ROTJ wave planned out.  If he isn't just a straight up thief, he is incompetent at business.  If SS can bang these things out, then TFSB should have had a lot more stuff completed by this time.

Finally got my Ghost Rider retro this past week or so from Amazon.  I can't believe this line is done for now.  Also can't believe I managed to get an entire Hasbro line without too much hastle and not having to step into a store to do so.

I noticed that the last time with the Holiday Fett preorder which is the same time I preordered RFT, hence why I'm waiting for the new ones to show up in the US shop first.  Unless something sells out before hitting the US, I will stick with that method from now on.

I really try to avoid ebay for selling, but I may have to resort to it.  Sales have slowed dramatically, but I think that could be due to the state of the economy.  I'm down to the last few items of my 3 3/4" Hasbro stuff.  I was having success with Sideshow 12", but that has died off.  I was trying to unload all the prequel stuff first and haven't tried any OT yet.  I have just begun selling lego stuff.  While prices look great on the sites that track that stuff, making sales has been very difficult.  I don't think a lot of people want to spend the money right now.  Hopefully things pick up soon.