>>8733797I do like FT's stuff, shit I have their motherfucking Fort Max himself on eternal preorder, but I'm not so blind as to think they are the be all and end all of Transformers like the shelf-it-and-forget-it collectors always claim. They have the market cornered because the biggest money in 3P comes from geewun MP boomers which has always been their specialty. They also have enough resources to troll other makers by announcing their version of almost anything so soon after someone else announces theirs. As long as the market doesn't change this will likely remain the status quo for at least another decade.
>>8734514Show.Z is legit but IIRC he is closer to Beijing (or is in Beijing) than wherever most of the 3P factories are, so he often gets stock a bit later than the big name Chinese eBayers, which isn't really a surprise; 1) China is a fuckhuge country and 2) it is very likely that 3P companies also have employees or whatever operating eBay/Taobao/Ali stores for direct selling to consumers. Like anon said here
>>8734522 this also causes his shipping costs to be significantly higher than eBayers.
