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Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 01:31:24 No.11696047 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11696078 >>11696492 >>11696502 >>11696529 >>11696532 >>11696618 >>11696811 >>11704100 >>11704993

Do these motherfuckers have ANYTHING in stock? I swear it wasn't like this 10 years ago. Backordered labels as far as the eye can see.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 02:00:41 No.11696078 Report

Quoted By: >>11696095 >>11696543

>>11696047
Y'all voted for this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 02:20:26 No.11696095 Report

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>>11696078
I can't believe Joemala would've given me cheap toys. If only I'd known.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 11:52:26 No.11696492 Report

Quoted By: >>11696526 >>11696587

>>11696047
It means that sales are growing, and demand has grown above the supply chain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 12:12:58 No.11696502 Report

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>>11696047
They always under order POs and sometimes just don’t put stuff into your warehouse until you bug them. At least they don’t charge when they fuck up and under order POs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 12:25:41 No.11696507 Report

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Fuck them, I cancelled a backorder because it's been 7 months since and they couldn't find shit. Ami has them right now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 12:53:48 No.11696524 Report

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They cant stock shit, they are using all their floor space acting as a warehouse because of a stupid incentive they didn't fucking understand the consequences of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 12:54:54 No.11696526 Report

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>>11696492
in English eisntein

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 13:01:09 No.11696529 Report

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>>11696047
I stopped using them after they took the wrong lessons from covid and went full retard with their "unlimited warehouse" + no cancellation policy.

You can tell they're desperate to lure back customers by offering 10% coupons all over the front page - absolutely laughable when nothing is actually in stock, on top of being more expensive than any other retailer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 13:05:58 No.11696532 Report

Quoted By: >>11699620

>>11696047
We are in a downswing cycle for toys so less of everything is being made and ordered. Everyone is cautious and so they are ordering just enough to fill preorders and a few extra but not enough to keep a wide inventory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 13:23:47 No.11696543 Report

Quoted By: >>11699640

>>11696078
I filled out a survey from them once and gave feedback on what I considered the bare minimum they could do to stay competitive - like a rewards system, a reasonable PW limit, more flexibility options for customers, etc. And guess what? They did the exact OPPOSITE of everything that was suggested.

Whelp, nice knowing ya HLJ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 14:04:03 No.11696587 Report

Quoted By: >>11696790

>>11696492
Empty shelves in a store can also clearly mean a lack of money to pay for stock, poor planning, poor inventory control and a butt-load of other reasons that don't reflect sales that are 'growing' or some imaginary 'demand.'

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 14:39:12 No.11696618 Report

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>>11696047
It seems like they want to mostly move to a preorder only model. I can’t really blame them with how things have changed over the past year I’m reluctant to make overseas impulse purchases, so if I don’t preorder in the first place, I’m probably not buying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 17:26:49 No.11696790 Report

Quoted By: >>11712551

>>11696587
If anything I imagine demand is falling because the amount of people ordering off them from the US has to have gone down to the tariffs. It only makes sense when the prices rise, less people buy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 17:29:50 No.11696798 Report

Quoted By: >>11696805

I still really like and use HLJ. My only complaint is that you can’t freely cancel anything anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 17:33:28 No.11696805 Report

Quoted By: >>11699645

>>11696798
Man I just ordered 2 things last night that they warned I can’t cancel immediately, saying the preorder window already closed despite just going up for order last night. Their new system is shit, I don’t even know why they let you cancel at all if it doesn’t apply to most things. Feels like they’re just afraid to get rid of it entirely because they know it was always their niche over other sites.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 17:42:17 No.11696811 Report

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>>11696047
Isn't that because everything is made to order now? Why would they have extra stock when they took all their orders in like 6 months+ ago?
And then certain items I don't think they can get more than the allotted amount hence instant order stop. So I don't get why you think extras are always floating around. I imagine most of the stocked items are from cancellations. Which they will have fewer now with the new policy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 18:49:55 No.11696900 Report

Quoted By: >>11696903

Preorders should be universally banned. All they do now is complicate ordering.

The only advantage to preordering was to be able to "reserve your spot" but now companies order so few preorders that if something is insanely high demand, instead of it selling out when they go in stock, instead they just sell out when the preorders drop.

There is no advantage left anymore for the customer, only the retailer who can lock people into orders months or sometimes even a year down the line with in some cases no way out if they refuse cancellations. Sometimes they even make you prepay for something a year down the line and you're giving them a loan a year ahead of time.

This is nonsense. The figure promo images should drop, a release date should be established, the figure should go in stock that day and it should ship shortly after. That's it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 18:51:58 No.11696903 Report

Quoted By: >>11696906

>>11696900
this pasta is getting moldy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 18:52:36 No.11696906 Report

Quoted By: >>11696921

>>11696903
I just wrote it, so go look in archives for it. You won't find it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 19:01:59 No.11696921 Report

Quoted By: >>11696957

>>11696906
I’ve seen that post worded almost exactly the same several times, you may be going senile then

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Feb 2026 19:35:18 No.11696957 Report

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>>11696921
Maybe some other regulatory lunatics roaming around had the same idea due to anger at getting screwed by preorders. Got an archive link? Maybe we can draft a petition together

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 05:28:10 No.11699620 Report

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>>11696532
This

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 05:41:21 No.11699640 Report

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>>11696543
They still somehow end up cheaper than domestic for larger mid price items. Small shit like simple gunpla or parts sets have basically become a scam with how insane shipping has gotten.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 05:42:51 No.11699645 Report

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>>11696805
I had shit I ordered on the day it went up have a retroactive cancelation cutoff weeks prior to the date I ordered it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 23:23:09 No.11704100 Report

Quoted By: >>11704959 >>11712555

>>11696047
HLJ has been trash for a decade now. I don't even care anymore, I'm done with imports. I don't have room to display more shit anyway. It's cheap western Jakks and Jada slop for me from now on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 23:33:49 No.11704116 Report

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My last order with them was 2 boxes of the mikuXgundam Gacha boxes. They charged 70 bucks for something that was the size of a kleenex box. After that I requested a refund of a later order that went to their private warehouse. They said no. I then requested a closure of my account. They said no to that as well. Sucks because they used to be good and the best place for me to get gunpla. Also them changing their time for pre order cancelations is also cancer. All my business goes to Hobby Genki now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Feb 2026 16:16:47 No.11704959 Report

Quoted By: >>11704978

>>11704100
What's left as a good Japanese import store? It seems like shipping just destroyed them really. The tariffs were supposed to harm China but they seem to have harmed Japan more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Feb 2026 16:33:30 No.11704978 Report

Quoted By: >>11705061

>>11704959
It's because all of these plastic figures and toys are actually made in China. They got away with tariffs and other fees by saying they're actually from Japan but if the government looked deeper they'd find it's all China. They would rather disclose it comes from China than risk fees or possible shutdown for lying about import and exportable goods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Feb 2026 16:52:58 No.11704993 Report

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>>11696047
You can thank all of those people who pre-order everything then warehouse it for a while before deciding on whether or not they actually want to buy it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Feb 2026 18:12:55 No.11705061 Report

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>>11704978
That doesn't explain why Japan got hit HARDER than China

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Anonymous Mon 09 Feb 2026 20:15:16 No.11705217 Report

Quoted By: >>11705849

hlj died with redesign
covid just finished it
my account is suspended, becasue i refused to pay for 1 year old order
fuck them

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Feb 2026 10:21:44 No.11705849 Report

Quoted By: >>11706130 >>11706141

>>11705217
ya'll do realize if you need new anime girls to jizz all over you just need a new throwaway email and a different pay pal or burner cc ??
it's not rocket science sister

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Feb 2026 16:39:09 No.11706130 Report

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>>11705849
and change my adress
yeah i will just do that thank you, you stupid fucking nigger

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Feb 2026 16:46:11 No.11706141 Report

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>>11705849
Can you speak in english because none of that entire sentence made any sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Feb 2026 15:03:39 No.11711252 Report

Quoted By: >>11712425

there was some stuff I wanted that showed in stock 3-5 days, 3 days ago. I dragged my feet and when I checked today everything was already out of stock somehow :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 02:01:00 No.11712425 Report

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>>11711252
And of course now all of it is back in stock after I already requested to ship my entire PW this morning…

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 03:01:33 No.11712506 Report

Quoted By: >>11714004

How often do they do shipping discounts? I've had stuff in storage since the Christmas sales and people here said they do frequent discounts, but I haven't seen anything yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 03:37:40 No.11712551 Report

Quoted By: >>11712713

>>11696790
The tariff prices are actually REALLY low though. $15 on every 100 isn't much. Anybody that can squeak out 100 can do so with another 15. It's the SHIPPING prices going up 3X that's caused Americans to stop ordering. And that's before the tariff costs are added in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 03:39:39 No.11712555 Report

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>>11704100
What? HLJ only started having problems less than a year ago when they removed cancellations. Every other issue with them is logistical and extends to all other businesses over there (ridiculous shipping prices, low stock).

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 06:51:55 No.11712713 Report

Quoted By: >>11721276

>>11712551
Its not just $15 though, theres additional fees paid to process it, so it turns into $25-30 pretty quick, which is ridiculous on small orders, especially combined with the shipping that basically doubled in price in the last year

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 04:09:24 No.11714004 Report

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>>11712506
Not as often now that they've switched over to their new 'unlimited' warehouse system. Its not really worth waiting for as its never a flat percentage discount (always an "up to" xx%) so you'd only save maybe a couple bucks at most.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Feb 2026 19:53:16 No.11721276 Report

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>>11712713
>shipping that basically doubled in price in the last year
does that include tariffs or not even including them?

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