Topps shipping price

[TRDouble]

A retailer would want to place a wholesale order. Buying at cost, they would have to sell them for way more than what Topps is asking to make a profit.

Um, yeah, I knew that *hangs head in shame*

[CrimsonGhost]

If this is correct, and I know zip about the manufacturing process (but this seems odd, just one week to manufacture), that might explain why there are limits on how many you can order. If you have a week to manufacture, I imagine that there are only so many figures that can be produced. If a retailer like BBTS or EE decided to place an order for 500 of each figure (just to toss a random number out), that might cause issues within the manufacturing time frame.

A retailer would want to place a wholesale order. Buying at cost, they would have to sell them for way more than what Topps is asking to make a profit.

[TRDouble]

If this is correct, and I know zip about the manufacturing process (but this seems odd, just one week to manufacture), that might explain why there are limits on how many you can order. If you have a week to manufacture, I imagine that there are only so many figures that can be produced. If a retailer like BBTS or EE decided to place an order for 500 of each figure (just to toss a random number out), that might cause issues within the manufacturing time frame.

[LonnieFisher]

The guy I talked to was saying that, if it ships from the Miami wearhouse, domestic is free. Maybe they can use that shipping model? And if they’re offering 5each, it might be nice if they could offer retroactively, when the figures start manufacture, I can be hopeful

From what I understand, they begin production when the initial offering is over and have a week to produce them before the next set starts manufacture. So, technically the first two weeks worth should already be made, with the third weeks figures being manufactured right now. Seems like they only get a week to make them and move on to something else. Then they need to be packaged and shipped to the US to be distributed. So most of out waiting time will be the figures on the water and at the port.
Someone please correct me if my information is incorrect.

[Tiberiusguy]

The guy I talked to was saying that, if it ships from the Miami wearhouse, domestic is free. Maybe they can use that shipping model? And if they’re offering 5each, it might be nice if they could offer retroactively, when the figures start manufacture, I can be hopeful

[Avenging Robot]

Out of curiosity, I added a trading card to my shopping card.

To my US address: It was free for economy and ten dollars for priority.

To my Canadian Address: Cheapest price was 15 bucks. Eeep! The card costs $9.99

That's not good to hear - I'm sure the Canadian shipping charges has already been raised in the past from Canadian card collectors.

[palitoy]

Out of curiosity, I added a trading card to my shopping card.

To my US address: It was free for economy and ten dollars for priority.

To my Canadian Address: Cheapest price was 15 bucks. Eeep! The card costs $9.99

[palitoy]

What's a reasonable time-frame for a company to revise it's shipping operations and update a website, I truly don't know?

A giant corporation doesn't move quickly, it seems like prior to this their business was mainly cards, those ship in little cardstock envelopes.

I'm sure their shipping is expensive on boxes of cards but the price on those averages over $100, so they probably don't get a lot of complaining.

They definitely need to rethink their model if they want Canadian orders.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i would say give it a little time to see if they fix the Canadian shipping. i know that sucks as you miss out on things in the meantime, but this weeks offering is less than a week after the meeting they had and they did at least fix one things that had been brought up.

[Retro76]

Sorry I meant to say maximum order quantity, just corrected.

[PNGwynne]

I thought the quantity change was an option, not a minimum?

What's a reasonable time-frame for a company to revise it's shipping operations and update a website, I truly don't know?

[Retro76]

On the Mego Ambassadors page they indicated a meeting was held last week with Topps and that “changes” were forthcoming. So far the only change has been increasing the number of maximum order quantity from 2 to 5.

[Avenging Robot]

Is Topps being subjected to a unique set of conditions that companies like ZLC Collectibles (and various others I've ordered Mego figures from) are not? If ZLC can ship me four figures for $24 I suspect Topps can do the same; in fact, given their size, they should be able to negotiate a better shipping cost from service providers than a smaller company could. Either they are being robbed by shipping service providers or they are choosing to rob us.

I would say at this point, since they have not made any moves to rectify the shipping cost to Canada, they have chosen to rob us. If they had just "found out" that the shipping costs were out of whack, they could have quickly fixed the issue but bringing in a other shipping service/method.

[TRDouble]

Is Topps being subjected to a unique set of conditions that companies like ZLC Collectibles (and various others I've ordered Mego figures from) are not? If ZLC can ship me four figures for $24 I suspect Topps can do the same; in fact, given their size, they should be able to negotiate a better shipping cost from service providers than a smaller company could. Either they are being robbed by shipping service providers or they are choosing to rob us.

I was curious, so I added four figures to my Topps cart and shipping to Western New York is $16 Economy and $24 Standard. $32 for Priority.

From reading messages here, are shipping costs different based on your location?

[LardLad]

Is Topps being subjected to a unique set of conditions that companies like ZLC Collectibles (and various others I've ordered Mego figures from) are not? If ZLC can ship me four figures for $24 I suspect Topps can do the same; in fact, given their size, they should be able to negotiate a better shipping cost from service providers than a smaller company could. Either they are being robbed by shipping service providers or they are choosing to rob us.