Good prices and free postage on Wave 4, Wave 5, TIE Fighter, TIE interceptor and Y-Wing. Enjoy!

They have a fairly shady practice on the Amazon UK store of displaying the packs at half price and then ramping the delivery cost up. E.g. TIE Fighter is £4.88 with £4.62 delivery cost. If you want two then its double the delivery cost.

Bleh.

They have a fairly shady practice on the Amazon UK store of displaying the packs at half price and then ramping the delivery cost up. E.g. TIE Fighter is £4.88 with £4.62 delivery cost. If you want two then its double the delivery cost.

Bleh.

Are we talking about the same Book Depository here? They've had free shipping to everywhere as long as I can remember (though I've always used their site directly since Amazon is a pain in other ways).

They also sell via the Amazon site. But they have their own website as well. Hence the confusion I guess.

The pricing for the packs on their website seems completely arbitrary though.

I got a shuttle from them for £15 and they didn't rip me off on postage, also ordered lots of battletech books at decent prices never personally had an issue with them.

Love that site. I just got a Tie Defender with free delivery to Australia, for less than I can get it here. Wooop

RoV

Ionic, thanks for the info!

They have a fairly shady practice on the Amazon UK store of displaying the packs at half price and then ramping the delivery cost up. E.g. TIE Fighter is £4.88 with £4.62 delivery cost. If you want two then its double the delivery cost.

Bleh.

Anybody seen Angel Galleria selling X-wing? It appears to be a children's toy store, and they price gouge like a bootlegger during Prohibition, not to mention that they're attempting to sell (hazardous-to-health) miniatures to kids. I've reviewed them a couple times on Amazon to try and warn folks...

Edit: typ-o. (I'm an OCD B.A. in English, typing on a Gen1 iPad with a nonstandard browser, so most of my edits are fixing spelling errors.)

I've also been trying to report some Ebay sellers, but the report system is crap so I can't specify my grievance. Essentially they are selling NEW X-wing packs unopened and mint for a little below RRP, however when you read the description you realise they have removed all upgrade cards (!!). How can it be new and unopened if the upgrade cards are taken out and sold individually. To make it worse, they have stupid high delivery costs.

As an example, they were selling a new TIE Defender for £8.99 (RRP £11.99), with NO upgrade cards and a delivery cost of £3.99. The price is one matter, that's down to the buyer, but listing the product as new is just a sham.

That's disgusting. Do they specify there are no upgrade cards, or did you learn that the hard way?

let me pile on.. beware of FRP games They have been sitting on a refund of mine for a couple of weeks now. I believe they are one of those 'Virtual" stores that don't have much real stock and what they do is place an order once you place an order with them.. well they couldn't get the item I wanted and it took them two weeks to figure it out as they had to "search" their other warehouse.. blah blah blah..and every other day i got to hear some different excuse as to why my item wasn't shipped even though they said they had it IN stock before i placed the order. finally they said the item they had wasn't in sellable condition? what ever that means..and of course the person running the place isn't authorized to make refunds and has to contact his boss but they sure took my money fast!!! .And then they tried to get me to buy a different item!! I used paypal so if my money is not refunded by today i am going to start a dispute with them and the BBB..OTOH I have always had good service with Miniature market and Coolstuff for games...both those companies are great..

Bit confused about some of the replies. Book Depository is owned by Amazon but has its own website. Prices are a bit random but are always cheaper than RRP and they have free shipping to anywhere in the world. I live in Hong Kong so it's by far the cheapest option for me. Delivery is relatively quick and always reliable. They tend to have limited stocks and sell out fast though.

let me pile on.. beware of FRP games They have been sitting on a refund of mine for a couple of weeks now. I believe they are one of those 'Virtual" stores that don't have much real stock and what they do is place an order once you place an order with them.. well they couldn't get the item I wanted and it took them two weeks to figure it out as they had to "search" their other warehouse.. blah blah blah..and every other day i got to hear some different excuse as to why my item wasn't shipped even though they said they had it IN stock before i placed the order. finally they said the item they had wasn't in sellable condition? what ever that means..and of course the person running the place isn't authorized to make refunds and has to contact his boss but they sure took my money fast!!! .And then they tried to get me to buy a different item!! I used paypal so if my money is not refunded by today i am going to start a dispute with them and the BBB..OTOH I have always had good service with Miniature market and Coolstuff for games...both those companies are great..

Great if you are in the US but the international postage costs are ver high, especially for Coolstuff.

Ionic, thanks for the info!

They have a fairly shady practice on the Amazon UK store of displaying the packs at half price and then ramping the delivery cost up. E.g. TIE Fighter is £4.88 with £4.62 delivery cost. If you want two then its double the delivery cost.

Bleh.

That seems to be pretty common practise on the U.S. site as well.

Anybody seen Angel Galleria selling X-wing? It appears to be a children's toy store, and they price gouge like a bootlegger during Prohition, not to mention that they're attempting to sell (hazardous-to-health) miniatures to kids. I've reviewed them a couple times on Amazon to try and warn folks...

You're welcome!

That's disgusting. Do they specify there are no upgrade cards, or did you learn that the hard way?

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link to the ebay page, so instead I'll just provide an example.

Listing: Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures - Waves 1-5 (NEW Models - No Upgrade Cards)

Choose Decimator from the dropdown, price is £18.99 delivery £3.49.

I'm confused... how is it both unopened, and yet upgrade cards are not included?

Your guess is as good as mine.

They have a fairly shady practice on the Amazon UK store of displaying the packs at half price and then ramping the delivery cost up. E.g. TIE Fighter is £4.88 with £4.62 delivery cost. If you want two then its double the delivery cost.

Bleh.

They're not doing it to try and trick you because the delivery cost is fairly up front on Amazon: it'd be very difficult for you not to notice. It's because Amazon orders 3rd party sellers by base price, so they (and everyone else) does that to try and jump to the top of the list.

I've also been trying to report some Ebay sellers, but the report system is crap so I can't specify my grievance. Essentially they are selling NEW X-wing packs unopened and mint for a little below RRP, however when you read the description you realise they have removed all upgrade cards (!!). How can it be new and unopened if the upgrade cards are taken out and sold individually. To make it worse, they have stupid high delivery costs.

As an example, they were selling a new TIE Defender for £8.99 (RRP £11.99), with NO upgrade cards and a delivery cost of £3.99. The price is one matter, that's down to the buyer, but listing the product as new is just a sham.

Got an Interceptor from one of those, although it was heavily discounted. What they're trying to do is sell upgrade cards on the secondary market like it's MTG, somehow not realising that X-wing doesn't have a secondary market. Continuing their seeming lack of savvy they're also fairly uniform with their price cuts. The TIE interceptor only contains Daredevil as an upgrade card. £4 discount (that's what it was then) for Daredevil? Hell yes.

Anyway, what they appear to do is slice the top of the blister off (where the hanger is), slide out the bag that contains the cards and remove the upgrade cards, then slot them back in and seal it up again. The actual model remains in its packing the whole time, so I can see how that could be spun as unopened/new.

If they're charging almost RRP plus sky high delivery for the "heavily discounted models" it means they've probably finally worked out that trying to en-masse exploit a non-existent secondary market isn't very bright and are trying to recoup their losses a bit. Thing is, if you're charging at or over the price of buying intact blisters who's going to pay extra for less stuff?

Eventually people'll learn that X-wing isn't MTG, until then there'll be a lot of price gouged piecemeal components floating around that nobody's buying.

let me pile on.. beware of FRP games They have been sitting on a refund of mine for a couple of weeks now. I believe they are one of those 'Virtual" stores that don't have much real stock and what they do is place an order once you place an order with them.. well they couldn't get the item I wanted and it took them two weeks to figure it out as they had to "search" their other warehouse.. blah blah blah..and every other day i got to hear some different excuse as to why my item wasn't shipped even though they said they had it IN stock before i placed the order. finally they said the item they had wasn't in sellable condition? what ever that means..and of course the person running the place isn't authorized to make refunds and has to contact his boss but they sure took my money fast!!! .And then they tried to get me to buy a different item!! I used paypal so if my money is not refunded by today i am going to start a dispute with them and the BBB..OTOH I have always had good service with Miniature market and Coolstuff for games...both those companies are great..

just for the record I have done business with FRP multiple times with zero issues.

"Eventually people'll learn that X-wing isn't MTG, until then there'll be a lot of price gouged piecemeal components floating around that nobody's buying.'

Team Covenant has been doing this for awhile and it's a GOOD thing...why spend $15 for a ship you don't need...$5 for that one upgrade you needed is better.

$5 for an upgrade card?

You may think that's sensible, but you're in the minority. There simply aren't enough people willing to buy individual upgrade cards they get with the ships anyway for inflated prices. The market for them is tiny. Likewise, it's not financially viable for the seller: spend fifteen on a ship, take out a card and sell it for five, you're still ten down. Scale that up and it's a massive loss. It only works if you play the game on a very large scale and have a large amount of cards you don't need lying around: it's not really viable as a sole business strategy.

Team Covenant might be able to make a little off doing it, but as the only business doing it. There's not enough demand to sustain any serious market. And even then it's just a little, and only off a few cards like Predator.

People see the massive secondary market in MTG and assume it applies to everything, not appreciating it's a product of a blind buy system. It doesn't apply to anything FFG makes.

The TIE interceptor only contains Daredevil as an upgrade card.

Daredevil and Elusiveness.

The fact that both I and the source I used to check the upgrade cards forgot Elusiveness entirely is a glowing testament to how useful it is.

I JUST ordered 3 Y-Wings and a Tie Advanced from Book Depository. I'll report how fast (or slow) they arrived.