General Thread v3: The Hexagone

God's Strongest Mozumite said:

IT'S MOZU'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop in and wish my oshi a happy birthday, I am NOT asking.

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I can't believe Mozu provided all the milk for her cake herself.

Wemi cooked again! Now all she needs to do is sing it!

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Nenélove said:

Phasekeks are so whiny, they don't understand the value of defective merch which will be seen as rare collectibles worth thousands in the future. I remember when Korone's doll was recalled and labeled as defective some people starting hoarding the things because they were "special versions"

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The defective merch buff only works if the defects are rarities, if none of them came out as intended then it's just worthless Chinese tat.

Lurker McSpic said:

I see. By his reaction I assumed it was something they commissioned to some sweatshop like a decade ago and they handled distribution too but turns out it was recently. My nigga fishman might be a chink but so far he seems to give a shit about quality control, if he keeps blindly trusting these chink sweatshops he's gonna lose money and clients very fast. I'd feel fucking scammed if they try to sell me a scarf and they give me fucking plastic sheet.

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I really think Phase are reaching beyond their means handling the merch in-house, since their merch output is kind of a shitshow all around. This is like the third time we've had problems with defects (the Airi mug prints, the plushies, and now this), needing a pre-order period so they can have the exact quantity manufactured at a more reasonable cost rather than manufacturing per order slows everything down tremendously, and the Canadian legal bullshit around international shipping makes it obnoxiously expensive too so people are less likely to impulse-buy stuff when it's announced.

I can appreciate why Fishfag wants to handle it himself, it gives them more flexibility in what they can offer, they don't have a distribution company eating into their revenue, and he gets to spend all day in the warehouse hiding from his wife. But in practice, I can't help but compare Phase merch that costs an arm and a leg in shipping and takes a year to get here to the weatherman's humble little hat shop that got a hat and a hat for my hat to me in about a week or so for just a £10 international shipping fee. Eventually you stop caring about the extra flair and just want the shit you bought to show up.

RestlessRain said:

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Two flat-chested girls arguing about boob envy feels like the most mid and uninspired anime you've ever seen and I'm here for it.

Phase has an obvious solution, a company could always come in and give them some help with the merch. A good old fashioned assist

Hff201 said:

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Are you fucking british Hff? Oh god don't touch me ewwww

Nenélove said:

Are you fucking british Hff? Oh god don't touch me ewwww

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I don't feel the clock sticker is enough for this post.

Brosnan Pierce Brosnan said:

Phase has an obvious solution, a company could always come in and give them some help with the merch. A good old fashioned assist

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How's Brave Group with merch, anyway?

RestlessRain said:

Two flat-chested girls arguing about boob envy feels like the most mid and uninspired anime you've ever seen and I'm here for it.

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It sounds like a concept pitch for a Lucky Star episode.

The hidden replies to this tweet are pretty funny! (For context, this is supposed to be salt about Mario Party)

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Brosnan Pierce Brosnan said:

Phase has an obvious solution, a company could always come in and give them some help with the merch. A good old fashioned assist

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From the creators of Phase beggars comes to you next summer

BRAVE BEGGARS​

Aquatic Novellite said:

How's Brave Group with merch, anyway?

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Fast, so fast

Aquatic Novellite said:

How's Brave Group with merch, anyway?

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1-4 months delivery, but they're quick on the call back if it sucks.

Brave be like "Konichiwa Fishman we would like to handle your merch, we will definitely not buy the company later"

Hff201 said:

needing a pre-order period so they can have the exact quantity manufactured at a more reasonable cost rather

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this is what really drives me up the wall. You should be doing this when you're starting out because you have no data. They've been around for what 4 years? and they still do this shit instead of looking at the numbers and produce a batch that can satisfy the usual demand and account for extra sales. They do the con circuit so any leftovers can be sold at cons or you can even sell mystery boxes of leftovers. People are willing to buy just get better at putting it in the hands of people.

Hff201 said:

I can appreciate why Fishfag wants to handle it himself, it gives them more flexibility in what they can offer, they don't have a distribution company eating into their revenue, and he gets to spend all day in the warehouse hiding from his wife.

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I think his plan has always been having merch rotating all year and he finally has enough girls and events to get the loop going but he has to scale his operation if he wants to sustain it. If he's making enough profit he should be investing in setting up his own distribution chain outside of canada because the problems keep piling up and like you said people are gonna get fed up with having to wait 6 months at best to get their shit.

I might be wrong but the way is setup is sweatshop-phasewarehouse-canadian postal service- the world- customer. This recent fuck up is him probably trying his luck skipping having shit shipped at the warehouse and let whatever chink sweatshop deal with production and distribution. His mistake is trusting a purebreed chink, they probably showed him the one good sample and scammed the shit out of him. Like I said, he isn't selling something that a mexican can't produce locally. A spic is more trustworthy than a chink and if he finds one of the good ones, he'd have merch for years. For distribution he really needs to cut the crap and hire a distributor in america or bite the bullet and set up a skeleton crew himself to deal with it. If he keeps trying to run things from canada he's gonna go under eventually.

Hff201 said:

I don't feel the clock sticker is enough for this post.

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How about a Big Ben?

That's a big clock.

Real talk, Brave tends to sell their stuff for cheap. So cheaply made sure. Phase for instance kills them on Acrylics and Art items. However there's stuff is good for the price. Phase however is way overpriced for a lot of items. And when they are good it's good, but then you see these QA issues pop-up. Which reflects poorly given the premium price

Someone who has whaled on a lot of merch.
Which corpo has the best merch quality/price/shipping times?

I'm beginning to think Kay Yu's update wasn't to make the game longer to play. It's to filter and see who's bad at basic mathematics.

Lemon whore taking the purple smoke on a date