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at this moment I'm not 100% certain. I just kinda randomly ran into Derryl, and he was trying to convince me that I have to move some stock somehow... so I should go. he may be right.

buzzchuck, it was really cool of you to enter, we were really happy with your figures... I hope you are as well though, and it sounds to me that you are.. and had fun making them. You definitely got creative with them, which we love to see. The BAT was really cool... a great "opener"... it was the first piece we looked at on judging. If I hadn't already overdone the first 3 prizes, I'd have given prizes to all the entrants... but I already kinda just blew a ton into those 3 prizes... hehe. but anyway, I just wanted to drop a note saying thanks... it was really cool to see a number of people I wasn't extremely familiar with entering the contest this year.

while I'm here... check out the results of this year's Alterna-Joe contest! the entries are incredible... and I want to buy about half of them. alterna joe contestphp

ok, not to go on a huge diatribe... BUT: here's the lowdown of what's been happening for a good few months. First of all, after a few issues Hasbro gave us with 7.75, 8, etc... I cancelled all orders I had in with Hasbro. I was ordering quite large amounts of stuff, and they couldn't see fit to treat me with any respect whatsoever, so I figured it wasn't worth my aggrivation. Wal-Marts keep selling at a loss, and it wasn't really noticed anymore what we were doing: keeping every 2pack in stock so collectors wouldn't have to search and have holes in the collection. Not a big deal really, just that it was a catalyst for a quick decision. This also led me to re-evaluate our accounts with Palisades compared to their current sales, and I dropped those until further notice as well. We had some bad organization here in-office a few months ago. I had an irresponsible employee (not stu) at the time, and there's still a few things I'm straightening out from that point in time. Basically misfiled paperwork can gum up a system pretty quickly. We're basically on track again. In fact, most things ship same day, but it's definitely within 2 business days as of right now. There are a few things I've still got to work out from the past... which is easier said than done. There's a number of people who have had a problem in the past. you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. A certain board on the net where the sole purpose is to gripe, and really lynch "bad traders". For instance there's one guy whose card declined repeatedly, so it took 2 months to get his stuff (not the guy above, that was MY fault). anyway, he now makes it his purpose to complain continuously about how terrible we are. that type of thing runs rampant online, and in fact there were a number of outright lies starting to be told about my character (not my business, but my personal actions and character toward kids.) Or there was a topic brought up about how I ripped off a ton of people by preselling the Cobra Trooper 6pack (which to this day I haven't sold, nor seen!) A number of things went a bit too far. At that point, I stopped checking boards altogether... which makes it a little harder to reach me, I realize. But a few people hopped on that bandwagon as well, because a LOT of money orders suddenly got "lost in the mail"... as in, I assume a few dishonest people saw that my reputation was being attacked, and figured it would make no difference whether they sent payment or not... and would sent threatening emails holding my rep hostage until I sent product. If you've got a legit complaint, I really do apologize. please email me ASAP at sean@nospam.thestoreon44.com (remove nospam.) I'd really like to help. BUT, please understand that I will need a lot of reference... as much info as you can provide will help generally, unless I know who you are and character reference already. thanks a lot guys, I did notice that the general intent at this board was concern, and the benefit of the doubt was given to me. I really appreciate it, as sometimes you can get surprised at how vulturous people can get when they see things starting to slip. I'm somewhat back around. I am trying to clear out a lot of stock right now on eBay... but drop me an email and save me some FEES if you want anything I may start updating the site again in about 2 weeks. anything ordered off of the site until then has about an 80% chance of being in stock... and will still ship quickly.

hey guys... the new Alterna Joe contest is up and ready... take a look. basically we want you to go nuts. Make a joe out of ANYTHING. make Raptor out of a dead bird. Make faces out of TMNT Casey Jones. do anything you want. just be creative. Alterna Joe contest

funny part is.... Jesse's probably right. on either count. whether it be neurotronix (not neutronix still) or just nothing like it. neurotoxin sounds like it could NEVER be a Joe name.

Jesse misspelled Neurotoxin... yipes. we were having a bit of a spam race... looks like he was a bit rushed. @firedevil@ anyhoo... QUAD VEHICLE W/FIGURE MINI JET VEHICLE W/FIGURE JOE DEFENSE MECH COBRA PUL VERIZER those appear to be the next 2 waves of mini vehicles as well.

I'm going to assume that they got caught up in our pre-moving process. as we're moving now, we are ALL caught up (to the day) to prevent MORE of a mess. should probably be there this week then. actually. while I'm here, I guess I'll also note: loose figures and vehicles sections of our site got deleted to get slowly rebuilt. there were too many errors. we're only partially rebuilding, as we do still have a new site in planning and progress... but in the meantime, we need to move some of this stuff still!

Draven, thanks for updating them. as long as it's here, I'm going to remind everyone, wave 8 PREORDERS are not going to be filled until TRUE wave 8 is here (with the televiper pack)... unless we were asked otherwise. people order by the case to get the whole set... so why on earth would they want the version without the best 2 packs? -seaN!

while doing inventory they found one in the back, so yes, Brian, that one was in stock. ALSO, I just went and checked, we do have the Scarlett SS packs as well. They were even on the site! just email me at sean@thestoreon44.com and I can add it to your order. -seaN!

how long have I missed this? actually, I haven't been on vacation, no worries. Basically I've been on the phone constantly with Hasbro about this one. As most of you know, we're usually one of the first with new stuff. We recently got appointed a new sales rep. who is pretty crappy. I've had an account with Hasbro for about 8 years now, and I know good and bad sales reps. let's just say... this isn't one of the good ones. She keeps citing new issues with certain Hasbro policies I've never known to exist... and strangely enough while she was out today I just called a different rep to go into my account and send out about 6 dozen cases of it... so the beginning of it is on its way. Cards started being charged today, and we're getting ready to ship it. Now I'm just worried about balancing it all out so that our credit keeps up quickly enough to make sure that wave 7.5 and wave 8 get here ASAP. I really do apologize for the delay... I know that a few of the other guys had a bit of one as well, but not as long as ours. Due to the size of our order the sales rep had this new "issue" with it that we've never had before. Basically I've been telling her how to do her job for a while now. I hate when companies hire new personnel with absolutely no experience. Speaking of which, we actually just hired someone new today as well... :lol: we'll see how well that fixes things around here so we can get the new site up and running... as I hear a lot of you are having issues with ordering the CG 3packs in our current cart system. I appreciate your patience... and hopefully it's all resolved by now. -seaN!

by the numbers they released, actually, the "pink" twins are rarer, but the crimson are slightly higher in that they're more desirable. mainly because some sap nicknamed these things "fuchia" when they're very slightly differerent... and certainly not fuchia.

I'm surprised Mike didn't mention the fact that the US had the "China" and "Hong Kong" production BAT, with different paint tones on each as well.

actually to see all 4 versions, check out: http://joecustoms.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=7985

that's so awesome! WOWZERS! @-@