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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

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

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>>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.

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