Email from DST on Shipping

[bettycooks]

I e-mailed the sales dept at Diamond regarding the shipping of the Willow figures and got this info.

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The willow figures are slated to ship out the week of 3/3/04. DST has no way of knowing when an order will fill, because they allocate the shipments.

Some retailers may get part, all, or none of their order in this first wave.
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This is pretty surprising but now I see why some sites list them as coming in March while some like Toydepot have them coming is April/May. that's the second wave of stock.

So some stores will have them next week and some will not, or just a few pcs.

The ones who have to wait until April/May are gonna get screwed as the figures sell out everywhere and impatient people start having to buy them for higher prices on ebay.

I think the retailers who get them in the second wave may have a problem, besides pissed off collectors who cannot understand why some stores have them ready to ship and they don't. It looks bad for them, and they have no idea what to expect next week.

[Demonslayer212]

It would make sense if all retailers got part of their shipment. I ordered Trans and Dopplegangland Willow from cinequest, so I guess I won't be getting those for a while, and the spellbook from nextgen, so that won't be there until may, and I plan on getting reg willow on ebay or in a store.

[kakistos]

Hopefully they'll fill all the MAC orders with this first wave...

[bettycooks]

Didn't Justice Demon say the DST membership thing would offer EVERYTHING???

I plan on ordering everything in one swoop from them, to heck with all these different stores and exclusives, I can't keep track of all that.

[kakistos]

bettycooks said:

Didn't Justice Demon say the DST membership thing would offer EVERYTHING???

I plan on ordering everything in one swoop from them, to heck with all these different stores and exclusives, I can't keep track of all that.

That's what we've been hearing, I think, but I personally would wait for official word when they tell us what's going on with orders and the Collector's Society next week.

[bettycooks]

Hey, I trust what JD said and I'm waiting before doing anything.

I can't afford shipping from 5 different places, those are extra figures I could buy!

[JusticeDemon]

bettycooks said:

Hey, I trust what JD said and I'm waiting before doing anything.

I can't afford shipping from 5 different places, those are extra figures I could buy!

Since Diamond will be filling MAC pre-orders, they'll HAVE to offer all six Willows at least. Also offering the Box Set, World Tour Willow, and boxed versions would be VERY nice, but I don't know about thos e yet. I do not know if Diamond will only honor MAC's preorders for all six, or if they will make all six available even to NEW members. We will hear a lot more on this VERY soon, though.

[CowboyGuy]

Well it sounds good to me. I haven't ordered from anywhere besides cinequest for DWW, and T&S Toys for the boxed set. I hope they'll honor the preorder from MAC. Otherwise I might have to go to ebay for Vampire Willow and Dopplegangland.

[SlayerLover34]

CowboyGuy said:

Well it sounds good to me. I haven't ordered from anywhere besides cinequest for DWW, and T&S Toys for the boxed set. I hope they'll honor the preorder from MAC. Otherwise I might have to go to ebay for Vampire Willow and Dopplegangland.

I have heard from DST and they are DEFINATELY honoring the MAC pre-orders! All 6 plus limited box sets, at least for the MAC members who've already ordered anyway. If you pre-ordered from MAC then DST will contact you with the information sometime next week! It was even mentioned that they are not sure exactly what they will be doing with the REST of the World Tour Willows!