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Originally Posted by CrazyNiceToys
The shipping from automaton toys is 12.99 for Quantron. That is considered cheap for shipping a toy that size IMO. I was actually comparing CAD/US retail costs against the 2 which makes MMC much more expensive. Also I checked out PSX (Planet Steel Express from China?) and their pricing on MMC feral cons it comes out to 524.97 USD (their pricing is in USD) = 561.38 CAD (this is at 1.06 exchange rate) for the set of 5 and take note when you pay with your Credit Card or paypal it never follows XE.com exchange rates. You end up paying more because of higher Bank exchange rates. Then the shipping for 1 Feral con from that website costs 26.61 USD Registered mail (cheapest shipping option from them)... To ship 5 Feral Cons from PSX costs 98.00 USD using EMS which is the only shipping option from them for shipping big packages. Your pushing $660+ CAD mark after shipping and this is without the duties or Taxes. Shipping stuff from China to Canada isn't cheap. Anyhow Maketoys Quantron is 429.99 CAD+12.99 shipping +5% tax (to non quebec/ontario residents) = 465.12. Even at $500 after shipping and HST for Quebec residents its still a $150 price difference compared to PSX pricing with shipping and without duties or taxes... Another note nothing is in stock on PSX for MMC Feral Cons...
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Except I've only had to pay for shipping on two of them and at a cheaper rate than what you're quoting.
Like I said, these are approaching MMC prices once you factor all in assuming you bought when they first came out.
What you're looking at is non EB pricing for MMC's figures and the non-free shipping option that PSX has now - if you got in early you avoided all that and got EB pricing plus exchange rates were very different when they first put preorders up.
So again, yes it is MMC pricing at this point and I'm not sure what Maketoys is doing to cause such a large jump in price compared to GG or even FP's Menasor.
It does make me 100% sure I'm not getting these guys through one of the major retailers as the price they want is too high.
To make it clear you're comparing Quantron EB pricing to MMC non-EB pricing.
Quantron non-EB price in CAD is $535.60 all in.
Also since MMC comes in 1 figure at a time you do not get ding'd on duties at the border.
So yea, MMC level pricing which is a little ludicrous considering how good MMC's figures are and how much more playable they are.
I find Maketoys figures, while beautiful and well engineered, do not have alot of playability due to some of the more delicate parts.
