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Any Aussies found Wave 4 stockists?
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dekuprince
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hi their I'm getting a box for my bday and i have asked my favourite comic shop house of hero's in woden Canberra
address
61 Colbee Court,
Phillip,
ACT 2606,
Australia
and they should be getting some cards in because i asked them to so if you live in Canberra i suggest you give them a call
here is the website
www.houseofheroes.com.au
um they sell cards for 8.50 a pack
oh and theirs an Eb like 3blocks away and ill tell yous my little secret they usually give me %50 off if i say "I'm after the cube give me a bounty of your finest cards"
try it seriously %50 off
but they don't usually have cards because i buy them all
hopes this help perhaps i can trade you guys sometime

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colin
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dekuprince wrote:
oh and theirs an Eb like 3blocks away and ill tell yous my little secret they usually give me %50 off if i say "I'm after the cube give me a bounty of your finest cards"
try it seriously %50 off
but they don't usually have cards because i buy them all
hopes this help perhaps i can trade you guys sometime

Crazy, that means they have 100% markup.

We should do a price comparison to other countries. Using the Big Mac index...everyone find the price of a big mac, a cup of coffe and a pack of cards Very Happy

For Australia:
cards: 8.50
coffee: AU$2.50-3.00
big mac: ???

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dekuprince
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say what

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dekuprince wrote:

oh and theirs an Eb like 3blocks away and ill tell yous my little secret they usually give me %50 off if i say "I'm after the cube give me a bounty of your finest cards"


That'd be handy, except EB, uhh, aren't going to sell any more PPC cards after the first wave. O.o

dekuprince wrote:

say what


What Colin means, I assume, is that if they're giving you that discount, it's because:
a) They're not selling what packs they have, and
b) They've marked wholesale prices of the cards up enough that in doing so, they're still not selling at a loss - they'd still be doing more than breaking even.
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EvilGenius
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Join the club - despite MC's assurances to the contrary we have no wave 4 cards here in Vancouver, Canada. We have one of the original nine stores here but never get anything until a month late.
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dekuprince
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but i have made sure house of heros is defently stocking them they will have cards wave 1 to 4 in sometime this week ring them
oh and i said that discount thing to see if you guys would actuly do it but obvisaly not lol it would have been funny to see 20 people at the counter saying "im after the cube give me a bounty of your finest cards"
lol sorry couldnt help myself but the info about HoH is defently confirmend from all angles they orderd a couple boxes one of which is all mine ( Twisted Evil insert evil laught here Twisted Evil )
did anyone actully do it that would make my day lol
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dekuprince wrote:
but i have made sure house of heros is defently stocking them they will have cards wave 1 to 4 in sometime this week ring them
oh and i said that discount thing to see if you guys would actuly do it but obvisaly not lol it would have been funny to see 20 people at the counter saying "im after the cube give me a bounty of your finest cards"
lol sorry couldnt help myself but the info about HoH is defently confirmend from all angles they orderd a couple boxes one of which is all mine ( Twisted Evil insert evil laught here Twisted Evil )
did anyone actully do it that would make my day lol


I doubt it, somehow, deku. Rolling Eyes

And Evil - sucks, doesn't it? More so for you because of the whole 'original store' thing, but regardless, the end result is the same - we have no cards. ._.
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EvilGenius wrote:
Join the club - despite MC's assurances to the contrary we have no wave 4 cards here in Vancouver, Canada. We have one of the original nine stores here but never get anything until a month late.


No, scratch that. Cards did, in fact arrive here, just before closing time. My bad - well done. MC!
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EvilGenius wrote:
EvilGenius wrote:
Join the club - despite MC's assurances to the contrary we have no wave 4 cards here in Vancouver, Canada. We have one of the original nine stores here but never get anything until a month late.


No, scratch that. Cards did, in fact arrive here, just before closing time. My bad - well done. MC!


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Firebox order came in yesterday, pretty quick turnaround (order in on Thursday last week). And, I reiterate, ~44 bucks for 8 Wave 4 + 1 Wave 1 pack (bonus) is super value compared to retail.

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EvilGenius wrote:
EvilGenius wrote:
Join the club - despite MC's assurances to the contrary we have no wave 4 cards here in Vancouver, Canada. We have one of the original nine stores here but never get anything until a month late.


No, scratch that. Cards did, in fact arrive here, just before closing time. My bad - well done. MC!


Curlytek wrote:
Firebox order came in yesterday, pretty quick turnaround (order in on Thursday last week). And, I reiterate, ~44 bucks for 8 Wave 4 + 1 Wave 1 pack (bonus) is super value compared to retail.


You lucky beggers, if I had've known the Firebox order would've got here so quickly I would've ordered, although knowing my luck the cards wouldn't have arrived in time. Oh well, it'll be SolveFest 2006 in three weeks!

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dekuprince
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um yeah i just wanted to post that HoHs (house of heros) stock waselayed they wont have it till at least friday ill call them then and tell you if they get them
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Krisjohn
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Here's the summary from WA:

* There are no independent shops stocking it that aren't listed on the website. (There's one new EB that isn't on the list.)

* On the website, they list the Electronics Boutique chain and two other stores. Of them;
- I've contacted roughly half of the EBs on the list. While they
do have cards, none of the staff know what they are. No store had
more than six packs. Staff at EB do not know if the new wave will be
stocked.
- For the one Games World and Al's Card Shop, I bought a faded, dusty,
broken, half-full display pack that was in both cases the first and
only display box those stores purchased. Neither of these stores
intend to purchase any more cards, since they sold so few.

(There is one other store that thought they'd possibly ordered some PerplexCity cards recently but they can't recall the details.)

It appears that Western Australia does not have a source for PerplexCity cards. This leaves me with only two options, neither of which are particularly attractive. I either order cards from interstate/overseas, or I order an entire display box at a time.

What I'm hoping to do is get a friendly local gaming store to get a display box of pure 4 and a display box of mixed. I'll buy half of each immediately, then whatever's left after a couple of months. I'm not sure if they'll go for that.

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dekuprince
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i called HoHs today at recess and they said they hadnt recieved the box yet and i should call back later so i did at the end of school and they said to call on monday
this is getting a little anoying
o well
tell yous if they get it in

also i was thinking that perhapes we shold make a site and have people cheaking the stock of local stores as weel as being an australian percific street team/forum/club just so we can get a good comunity and system going what do you think i dont know the first thing about webdesign so i may need some help if yous think its actully a good idea to have an active listing of were every card in australia is at
tell me what you think
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dekuprince wrote:
i called HoHs today at recess and they said they hadnt recieved the box yet and i should call back later so i did at the end of school and they said to call on monday
this is getting a little anoying
o well
tell yous if they get it in

also i was thinking that perhapes we shold make a site and have people cheaking the stock of local stores as weel as being an australian percific street team/forum/club just so we can get a good comunity and system going what do you think i dont know the first thing about webdesign so i may need some help if yous think its actully a good idea to have an active listing of were every card in australia is at
tell me what you think
When did they order the cards? If they come by sea it'll take weeks. Why can't we just order cards directly from the supplier?

Don't take this the wrong way, but you really need to write better than that. You didn't use one punctuation mark, not to mention spelling.

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