we need to talk about pre-orders
hey guys me ho supersorrell thank you very much tuning in today i want to have a little
bit of a run video i need to get something off my chest because it has been driving me insane
for quite some time and i've kind of the over the last year i've really thought about this
and i've really kind of mulled it over and i'm ready to pull the plu to pull the plug
and pull the trigger on something for 20 2022 and i want to talk about it today
we need to talk about pre-orders and the current current situation in the action figure industry
and how things have seemed to be going and i'm not liking it i hate the fact that we have
to go online and and pre-order action figures months in advance pay the money for the figure
and then just sit here getting delay after delay after delay which i know is not the um you know
it's not the fault of any of the retailers the the online retailers here in the uk are
brilliant and they are a great network of shops and they really help us out here in the uk getting
as hard to find collectibles that otherwise we wouldn't be able to get so i do appreciate them
and i love them for it and this is not a rant at them although i do have a dig in a little bit but
for now my rent is mainly at the manufacturers because we're expected to sit here as the
collector and just expect delay after delay and then things seem to just sporadically pop up at
retailers that our online retailers can't get and i don't understand the distribution
surely if one shop can get them all of them should be able to get them
i hate the fact that like i pre-ordered my wonder from the new new the retro line i pre-ordered that
from one of our online retailers and they said it was coming out very soon however i was able to
go to smith the other day and pick one up it was on the shelf on the peg ready to go and it makes
it difficult because whilst i still want to you know help our online retailer network i want the
figures in hand quick so that i can do reviews and you know have the figure in hand and that's where
it comes to a little rant that i want to have right now that's where i want to go with this
because my other main issue is also that if i place a pre-order with any of the online retailers
we then put into a queuing system then that figure will come in stock say it's costco eaves
say whatever is you know a figure will come in stock they then have to work through that list
obviously in some form of order of when people place their orders
and so you're in a queueing system however they do have also stock like in stock as well and usually
they might have different people working on those those things so what happens is that figure is now
in stock on their website but i'm waiting for my dispatch or my invoice to complete to pay it off
however that i could go on their website place an order and receive it the next day
especially with some of the online retailers that offered next day delivery it makes no sense to
pre-order anymore and that's why i'm pulling the plug on pre-orders for next year for 2022 i am
not pre-ordering a figure in 202 i do have some pre-orders in don't get me wrong obviously i've
got some pre-orders that have been pre-placed but i am not placing any new pre-orders going forward
because i don't need to i might be eating these words in a month's time and i might find myself
hating myself and not placing some of these pre-orders however
i don't see it happening there are so many online retailers now that you can go to
and they all seem to have different stock at different times
so for someone like me who wants to keep this channel going
i could literally not place pre-orders and then go with whatever company gets the stock in first
that's the way i'm going to go whether that be smith's whether that be hmv or whether that
be any of our online retailers whoever gets that stock in first is going to get my money
and that's how i'm going to be doing it because i i need the i need the product as
quickly as possible so i can get reviews out there's nothing worse than when i'm sat here
waiting for figures months and months on end but knowing they're in full stock elsewhere like
i get the invoice i pay my invoice on time i pay straight away bang on the door but then
i wait several days for dispatch whilst another website might have it in stock
on the website readily available i can pay on the day i can choose next day delivery for four
pounds something and it's there on my doorstep the next day you know what i mean and i know and
i don't wanna i don't wanna come across as being you know horrible or anything i understand this
is very first world problems i understand that i'm moaning about toys here don't get me wrong
but i think it needs to be said and i think this is an experiment that i'm looking forward to doing
i'm gonna see how how long i can keep going without having to place a pre-order because
another thing that annoys me is obviously then we we can then move on to projects like hazlab
and as much as i love hasbro i love work i love working with them you know i think they're i think
they offer some great product however recently obviously for star wars we tried to have the
rancor failed to death but a product of the same like the same price value was the millennium
falcon for the vintage series the smugglers run version and that sold at regular retail
it didn't have to go through hazlab they just took a punt and they put it out on the shelves
where has that gone high-end collectors are still here you know we're waiting for product i think
projects like hazlab and things like allow allow them to get away with making with
get away with um doing things and cutting corners which i don't like get the product out and get it
to retailers then we'll buy it i don't know why that's no longer a thing i don't know why are we
doing this thing where we pay for everything online wait for everything to arrive and
you know and all just get it into stores get them in people in your shop's hands and we'll buy them
i don't know how am i being bitter here am i being really off i don't know i don't think so
i think for once for once here i feel like i'm not being because i know a lot of people
go out their way to call me a shill for companies and things like that and i'm
really not i will speak my mind when i think it's necessary and today i think it is necessary so
there's a lot of the longing skinnier it is i am not placing any pre-orders for 2022 i've obviously
got some orders in i'm that once those have run out i will be literally buying stock as it arrives
and i've been doing that anyway i already have two wonders because obviously i didn't want the
companies that i placed the orders with especially the online retailers i didn't want them to miss
out so obviously i kept my orders with them and i paid them off and then i've just been
recouping my money by selling them to people that didn't manage to get one like
obviously we've had these recently the ghostbusters mini puffs these have been
sold out everywhere however they were in stock for a few days in a few different retailers i
could have had these sooner but i didn't want to do that because i had the pre-ordering so i waited
longer than what i think you know i waited a while i paid my
i paid my invoice and then not to wait like two weeks for it to arrive
so but then on the other hand
i've got this on pre-order with an online company it's not it's apparently not coming till next year
amazon got this in a week ago for 20 quid it's this is even cheaper than the one i've placed
the order with online but i'm still going to keep the online order because again i've got this for
my channel to do the review to get this out and get get you know the review online for people
i don't want the companies to miss out on the fact that i've placed an order with them i
don't want to back out of that order so i will be selling one arm at cost you know what i mean
um i don't want to be doing that a lot going forward so
i'm finding that i'm able to find things in store faster or you just by buying through
online retailers like i don't understand i'm still waiting on my star wars wrecker action figure
but i know several people that placed an order with the company that i placed my order with
and have got theirs months ago same with the is it the walmart exclusive cody
um i've not had an invoice for that yet i placed my pre-order as soon as the damn thing came out
i know several of my of all of my friends online that have got theirs in hand and have since sold
it on and you know i mean like they've had it and got rid of it and i've not even had mine yet
i don't get it
however though both both of those both the wrecker and the cody were both in
line online with another toy company for a good while i think i think records still available
at toys r uk and i could have had that in hand weeks ago now
but yet because i place the pre-order i'm putting all my eggs in one basket and i'm
waiting for things to arrive whereas if i didn't have those pre-orders in
i could wait for the first company whoever whoever it may be it could be star action
figures it could be kapow it could be in demand it could be common cocktails it could be whoever
whoever gets that thing in first in stock i buy it then
and use that and use the the the express delivery options and get them a lot faster
yeah i didn't want to make a video that is that that was this ranty but i think it was needed
i needed to get this off my chest so basically i'm doing an experiment all next year and if
anyone wants to join in with my experiment please let me know because it'd be awesome i'm going to
literally i'm not placing any more pre-orders now at all so we're going into january yes like
i said have some pre-orders still out they are standing but i'm basically going to try and go
for a whole year now with no pre-orders whatsoever and see if it makes a difference to my collecting
guys what are your thoughts let me know in the comments down below if you enjoyed today's video
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because i'd really like to know and uh i want to see you see where people are at and see if anyone
else is having the same feelings let me know but guys thank you very much for watching as always
i'm your host super so i'll see you in the next video but until then may the horse be with you bye
you