United Kingdom Collector's Delivery Thread

**Eamon** · March 7, 2011, 10:44am

Yup! I got mine too!

They are all so flippen sweet! Even Bow!

So how come we all avoided fees this time then. We have had boxes marked as $50 before and got charged.

Is there something on this box that is different from the others I wonder?

**byinfernoslight** · March 7, 2011, 11:37am

Originally Posted by Eamon

So how come we all avoided fees this time then. We have had boxes marked as $50 before and got charged.

We haven't all had ours yet

**Minion** · March 7, 2011, 11:42am

Eamon gets his then tries to jinx the rest of us...

**Scorpia** · March 7, 2011, 02:38pm

Originally Posted by Eamon

Yup! I got mine too!

They are all so flippen sweet! Even Bow!

*literally passes out*

**tmc1984** · March 7, 2011, 03:10pm

i got a card through the door today asking me to pick up 2 items from the local royal mail depot - i'm hoping that one of the boxes is my matty stuff! ...

**Scorpia** · March 7, 2011, 03:15pm

Originally Posted by tmc1984

i got a card through the door today asking me to pick up 2 items from the local royal mail depot - i'm hoping that one of the boxes in my matty stuff! ...

*wakes up*

Yay!

**Toymaker** · March 7, 2011, 03:25pm

My brothers picked up mine today, I'll get them Wednesday.

I'm still worried as no sign of Tytus, so hope he's not held up in customs!

**tmc1984** · March 7, 2011, 04:12pm

Originally Posted by Scorpia

*wakes up*

Yay!

... i'll PM you as soon as i find out tomorrow ...

**robaczek** · March 7, 2011, 07:08pm

I got the card today as well so unless it's some stuff from ebay.. Will see tomorrow ;-P

**Scorpia** · March 8, 2011, 04:28am

Originally Posted by tmc1984

... i'll PM you as soon as i find out tomorrow ...

*crosses everything*

THANKS!

**Neil** · March 8, 2011, 06:06am

Big white sack of goodies has arrived in Canterbury!
No fees to pay.

So that's two months I've avoided paying import duty - only ten more months of the subscription to go!

**mightbaron** · March 8, 2011, 08:53am

I was certain I'd be paying customs this month, but my Items arrived yesterday in a big brown box with nothing to pay.

Just had an email from Matty too about my missing Palace Guards and they've sent out another set.

**Eamon** · March 8, 2011, 09:16am

This is great we seem to all be avoiding costumes!

Now we just need to figure out why. If there is a why.
If anybody has any of the previous outer boxes with all the stickers on, can you see if there is anything differently marked?

**Havoc** · March 8, 2011, 10:12am

Originally Posted by Eamon

This is great we seem to all be avoiding costumes!

Costumes?

Well true, so far I've managed to avoid having to wear a costume while I wait for my parcel

Now we just need to figure out why. If there is a why.
If anybody has any of the previous outer boxes with all the stickers on, can you see if there is anything differently marked?

I thought the white mailer sack may explain it since it has no visable value on it, and is just passed rather than opened. But people have also recieved shipments just in the box, with the $50 declarion there for all to see. So maybe it could be to do with the port in Germany they are being sent through and are then forwarded on and being detected as being shipped from within the EU, which doesn't get us customs charges. Who knows though, I think we have to play it by ear month to month and keep hoping for the best.

**Eamon** · March 8, 2011, 10:23am

I got no white mailer bag.

Is there anything at all to indicate that these definitely came via German first?

**Havoc** · March 8, 2011, 10:40am

Ive torn up and thrown away the box now, but Im pretty sure the mail on the move parcels always came via Germany. It is probably just still hit and miss.. I got all my SDCC stuff through with no customs charge, which arrived in the white mailer sack, minus Plastic man, who then arrived seperately with a £30 customs charge on him (which I refused and had sent back to mattel)

**blackiecats** · March 8, 2011, 03:21pm

Originally Posted by Orko's Magic Hat

Got my 2nd Bow yesterday and he is great - my new favourite!!!

I'm a little torn on him to be honest

His head is too small for his body! It's the same size as his arm and looks kinda odd

I'm noticing this is a 4H trait to make heads inproportionate to the body on a lot of figures they sculpt

He looks odd next to Adora, when her head is bigger than his! I had the same problem with the Prince Adam figure.....

The likeness and design of Bow (apart from the glued on quiver of arrows, which should be removable!!) are great. Just the head size and quiver that kinda spoil this figure.

**Minion** · March 8, 2011, 04:33pm

Yay. Got my subx2 stuff today. Unfortunately it was abandoned by my bins with a parcel card through the door saying as much. Not exactly secure.

Good news is that obviously there was not a custom charge even though the white mailer bag of awesomeness was not present. The outside of the box was marked as $100.

Loving Preternia He-man a lot more than I thought I would. The cosmic key is epic. I have him displayed with the blaster as I figure he might not use the power sword openly in the past in order to protect his identity.

Bow I like but was not over the moon with. He actually impressed me more when I displayed him alongside She-ra. The gold and red on both characters actually looks pretty cool.

Shadow Beasts are just monstrous. Marzo is a real threat on my shelf now!

**tmc1984** · March 8, 2011, 06:33pm

Originally Posted by Eamon

I got no white mailer bag.

Is there anything at all to indicate that these definitely came via German first?

i've never had anything delivered from matty in a white mailer bag - no matter how big my order was ... just a big old box! ...

**Jii Dee** · March 8, 2011, 08:02pm

Nothing here in Glasgow. Sunuvaviper.

**robaczek** · March 9, 2011, 04:13am

Yep, the sub is here, just picked it up yesterday - white mailer bag (although not what I was expecting) consealed any value indication :-) Matty - or should I say DR - good job! :-D

**Neil** · March 9, 2011, 05:38am

My order had tags on it to indicate it came through Germany and France.
Although it arrived in a sack, rather than a box.

In fact Bow was in his white mailer, in a box, inside another box, inside a sack. Mattel shipped a lot of extra cardboard this month!

**13977** · March 9, 2011, 05:47am

The only time I've had a mailer bag was when I ordered two Battle Cats (on the first release) and I'm pretty sure it was a blue mailer bag.

Still not got my second Sub order here, so it might of been caught by customs

**sgmilne** · March 10, 2011, 10:41am

Anybody in Scotland received the February sub stuff yet? I got Keldor last Friday and that must have been sent at roughly the same time. I'm starting to worry about customs charges now.

**13977** · March 10, 2011, 11:19am

Got my second Sub order today. This time it was in a white mailer bag, still no customs fees

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