Please read the following:
Presale listing! Please note that SDCC items do not become available to be released until the start of Comic Con which starts on July 19th and ends on July 25th. Thus the earliest date any SDCC item will be available to ship is July 19th (which is compliant with ebay’s presale policy).
This is a guaranteed Presale/Preorder! All presale SDCC items I have listed are items where I have already placed an order with the vendor and been charged for the item and the item is being held on order for me to pickup at the convention once it starts. Many sellers on ebay will sell an item in advance and then simply “hope” they will be able to obtain the item at the show in order to fulfill the ebay order (this practice far too often leads to cancellations because once the seller arrives at the show they discover the item was either already sold out to the people who placed preorders or it turns out the exclusive item is less easily obtainable at the convention than they thought). I do not do that. If you see that I’ve listed an SDCC item it means one of two things unless otherwise noted: 1) I have already paid for the item and will simply need to show up at the vendor’s booth/pickup location and claim the item with my voucher/receipt once Comic Con begins, or 2) I am at Comic Con and have the item in hand. So bid with confidence that your order will be fulfilled.
About me:
I have been attending SDCC on an annual basis since I was in college in the late 1990s/early 2000s and thus have been in attendance for nearly 20 years and have been selling SDCC exclusives for at least the past 10 years. I am a collector and a fan who enjoys getting to attend SDCC every year. I am not a business, and thus attending the convention is something I do for fun, as a hobby, and in order to add to my own collection, but because it is a very expensive show to attend about 10 years ago I also began picking up extra items and exclusives to sell on eBay in order to make attending the show and picking up exclusives for myself a little bit more affordable. With my nearly 20 years of experience at SDCC I have an excellent long and successful track record for both obtaining these extremely hard to get SDCC items as well as getting them to their buyers. But again, this is not my job nor am I looking to sell these exclusives as a means of paying my rent or making a lot of money but this is something I have been doing as a hobby for many many years with the sole purpose of just reducing some of my own costs and so I can pick up a few of these exclusives to keep for myself.
FAQ:
In order to make things run smoothly I’ll try to address as many potential questions as possible below. Please read before asking, but if you still have questions afterwards feel free to contact me with your questions. J
Payments:
Prior to placing your bids or committing to Buy It Now please make sure that you in fact do want and are able to pay for the item. Despite what some people believe sellers still have to pay listing fees, special duration fees, etc. even when the buyer chooses not to pay or requests a cancellation (the only fees that are refundable to the seller when this happens is the listing fees—but the other fees ebay keeps regardless which which means as a seller I end up losing money for all non-payments or cancellations). As a result I can no longer accept cancellations for purchases, and as a seller I do not have the ability to cancel your bids (only you have that ability), so please be aware of this before you bid and please pay for your purchase in a timely manner.
Due to the time sensitive nature of these SDCC exclusives and the fact that they are only available to purchase/pickup during the limited time of the event--starting July 17th (the Monday prior to the start of Comic Con) all payments for purchases and closing auctions are required to be paid within 24 hours of closing. If for some reason you can not pay within 24 hours you should contact me immediately, but please note that failure to pay within 24 hours during Comic Con could lead to the unpaid for item being offered to another collector. For international buyers you may experience a slight delay in being able to pay due to the fact that you’ll need to wait for an invoice from ebay that includes the international shipping. Not to worry. Typically that invoice shows up relatively quickly after your commitment to purchase so there should still be plenty of time to receive that invoice and pay within the 24 hour window. If there are any issues that will prevent the 24 hour payment please let me know.
Shipping:
For Domestic Orders I offer free economy class shipping. This means I will automatically ship the item for free via which ever shipping means is the cheapest based on the size/weight of your package and your location. 90% of the time this means shipping FedEx smart post as that tends to be less expensive than USPS. FedEx Smart Post does not ship to P.O. boxes and thus requires that you provide an actual address for delivery and not a P.O. Box number. So this is a requirement when placing the order. If you want another shipping option other than the cheapest economy class option or if you would prefer to have the item shipped to a P.O. box this may involve additional expense. You can contact me to discuss, the possibility of an upgrade but in all likelihood I will not be able to quote you an exact amount for the shipping upgrade until after Comic Con and after the item is in hand so it can be weighed/measured/etc. But by default when you purchase you are agreeing to accept the lowest economy shipping option and the upgrade is only offered for an additional price if both parties find it agreeable.
For International Orders: I ship internationally using ebay’s Global shipping program. This is the only means of international shipping offered. If you are living in a country that qualifies for the Ebay Global Shipping program I believe you should see a rough estimate of your shipping and import costs with the listing but I personally am not privy to this information nor do I have any control over it thus I am unable to provide you with a quote on shipping to your specific country. With ebay’s Global Shipping program the cost you pay for the international shipping goes directly to ebay’s global shipping provider. I do not see or receive this money, nor can I even tell you how much money it is.
Insurance:
I do my best to bubble wrap and package all items well so they get shipped and arrive to you safely but on occasion items can get lost or damaged by the carrier in transit. While this is rare it does happen and is something that can occur no matter how much care I put into packaging the item well—when the shipper is negligent or handles the package poorly that is something out of my control. So if you would like additional insurance to cover and protect your item from such shipping mishaps let me know and we will figure out how much extra it will cost you to add the additional insurance and rather or not that is an upgrade you would like to pay. Again, though I may not be able to give you this exact amount until after the item has been received and is in hand. So once the item is in hand and ready to ship I will contact you if you’ve already informed me you are interested in the insurance so you can decide so you can decide rather or not it is worth it.
Shipping timeline:
As stated above SDCC takes place from July 19th to July 25th. Some select items will ship during the convention, but the majority of orders placed won’t ship until after SDCC starting on Monday the 26th. Once SDCC is over I typically have 100s of orders to fulfill thus will be hard at work over the next few days making sure all of the items are well packaged and shipped quickly. I have a system where I can typically work fairly quickly getting up to 100 items shipped out per day, but as said above, I am not a business, and am just one person working alone to get these items carefully packaged and shipped thus it may take me a couple of days to ship out everything. As items ship I will also be working to get the tracking information uploaded to the website for you. Please be patient and give it a few days before contacting me to ask “has my item shipped?/when will my item ship?” etc. Rest assured I am doing everything I can to get your item out to you as safely and quickly as possible but every year literally the day after Comic Con has ended I receive a hundred messages asking when/if the item has shipped and while I fully appreciate the excitement and anxiousness of wanting an update if I stop to answer all 100 of those messages it will take me hours to respond which is time I should be using to ship out these items. So please wait at least a few days after the convention before asking for an update. This will help me get the items to you more quickly.
Communications during the convention/the week following might be delayed:
SDCC is an incredibly fun experience, but it is also very intense and non-stop. Lines are long, events and activities are non-stop/24 hours a day, getting all these exclusives in hand can be a lot of work/take focus and as a result on these days there can be very few moments to stop and look at messages. As a result once the convention starts there may be a delay to me being able to respond to an ebay question. I’ll do my best to respond as I can but just know that during the show there isn’t much time or bandwidth. Likewise the week after the show as mentioned above things are very busy and hectic as I’m busy packing up and shipping hundreds of items—thus again there could be a delay in response time during this period. Of course if you have an important question that has not already been addressed in the listing you should feel free to ask but for all other matters I request that you hold back those messages if possible to give me time to do all the things I need to do at the convention and to get things shipped out in the days immediately following. Thanks!
Hope that answers everything but if not let me know.