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Originally Posted by evenstaves
Ditto, I usually ship items to the local store, even
And I can't recall a single issue I've ever had with the order "not getting there"
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the only time I've had an issue with ordering something and not getting it wasn't a ship to store problem. It was that I ordered 3 things (IIRC it was Kingdom Rhinox, Scorponok, and something else) and because 1 figure wasn't in they withheld the entire order from shipping for ages. But as soon as I canceled the figure that was holding it up the other two shipped and it was fine and I ended up buying the missing figure from like Toy Snowman or somewhere like that.
My only other gripe was that I once ordered Velocitron Hauler and then literally the very next day I found one in store and bought it. I got home that afternoon with my online order still not having processed and wasn't able to cancel it because apparently you can only cancel orders within the first few hours after you place them. So I had to let the order complete and ship to me then take the extra Hauler to a store to return it.
I've only ever used ship to store a handful of times and of the 4 or 5 times I had one instance of the order not arriving by the date it was marked for but when I went to the store that day I found what I had ordered on the shelves (it was one of the 35th anniversary figures. Bluestreak or Soundblaster I think) so I phoned the pickup info number, told them that my order wasn't listed as in but they literally had what I wanted available and the guys just said to take one and he met me outside the stock room and scanned the one I picked up to mark it as fulfilling the order so I didn't have to cancel the online one and pay again. On a scale of 1 to 10 for hassle and frustration it was like maybe a 3.
But for TFs I don't even really need to do ship-to-store anymore because their free home shipping threshold is $35. So any TF bigger than a core class is probably going to get you free shipping to home.
Besides, I actually got a massive boon once from a Walmart ship-to-home order screw-up. I ordered SS86 Wreck-Gar and the person at the shipping depot sent me a whole case box instead of 1 figure. That's 3 figures in total. So I got 2 extra Wreck-Gars in their Hasbro warehouse box. Sold one to a boardie here for MSRP and returned the other and ended up getting mine for a net profit of like $45 instead of any cost to me.
