DC Direct is a harsh mistress...

Okay so a few weeks back I won an eBay auction a Batman: Knightfall Catwoman figure. This is like my dream figure as its my 90's Jim Balent purple catsuit and liquid black opera gloves and thigh high booted Catwoman. The Catwoman I grew up on, crushed on, and thoroughly ingrained my catgirl fetish.


As you can see, if you clicked the linky, I got an excellent deal as most other sites want to charge double what DJ's Collectible Shoppe charged me. Well as you can see from the date I paid and when I won the auction there was quite a wait, almost two weeks, as I kinda forgot that I still needed to pay for it as I was caught up with finals, graduation, Thanksgiving, and what not being my last semester and all of college.



So I remembered, I messaged DJ, and I paid up right quick. BAM! A few hours later I get a message that all is good and that the figure would be going out ASAP.

HUZZAH!

So I get the figure a few days later, and then yesterday I message him that I left positive feedback and am most happy with my figure. Then about an hour ago I opened her. I take great pains to carefully free her from the twist ties and the packaging.


And she's INCREDIBLE, I already know NOT to do a Marvel Legends/DC Universe Classics articulation test on DC Directs or Marvel Selects, but I go to bend her elbows to pose her.

All is well.

I go to bend her knees. Right knee is awesome. Left knee...

All is crap.


Apparently her left knee, not attached too well as its barely hanging by the back attachment. I'm not a violent man but I wanted to punch someone really hard... with my foot.


So far of my DC Direct purchases I'm 2 for 4 for them breaking straight out of the packaging. I've bought an 18 dollar Infinite Crisis OMAC from Hot Topic. His right leg broke off 2 minutes out of package, I was marvelling at his points of articulation when

*POP*

The gorgeous translucent leg is now seperate from his gorgeous translucent body. It was like the plot to a freaky ass Anime. I spent 4 hours the first time attempting to repair his leg by gluing it in place only for it to break AGAIN when he took a nose dive off my shelf simultaneously breaking his head fin off. I spent 2 hours, with a dremel, repairing his leg with a screw and now its fully poseable once again. The Fin, not so much. Its attached but doesn't flex with the spine section of the fin. Gah.

My second DC Direct purchase was a First Appearance Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle, that sucker is like a rock. Invincible, almost. I love it.

My Third DC Direct purchase a Green Lantern Series 1 Star Sapphire. Gorgeous, super limited poseablity, but no breaky.

My Fourth DCD purchase is this Knightfall Catwoman and 2 minutes out of package, even under tender lovin' care. She was already broke.

*Sigh*

I also own a JSA Series 1 Power Girl, and Infinite Crisis Power Girl, Identity Crisis Deadshot, and Superman Last Son Bizarro but those were either traded for, purchased loose, or given to me as a gift. All of them great condition, their articulation points perfect, no breaky breaky.

*Double Sigh*

So I decided to check the packaging for customer service info, NUFFIN. So I check the damn DC Direct website, and straight from their FAQ:

How Can I Replace Or Fix A Broken Product?
You can bring the item back to the retailer that you purchased it from, so they can take up the matter with the Diamond Distributors customer service representative. DC Direct is not equipped to respond to requests to repair broken items or ship replacement parts.

Great.

This was a fricken EBAY PURCHASE. So I decide "screw it" I'll check Diamond Distributor's website. Well I learn that I'm leading Jack and Shit and Jack got a sex change.

Wunderbar!

So as a last resort I messaged DJ, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe we can work something out. He gave me a HECKUVA deal on the figure, about 5 bucks less than normal retail for a DCD (in spite of the shipping charge). So I basically said in the message:

"Hey, the figure broke straight outta the package, and I tried to handle a customer service thing on my own but came up bupkiss on both ends and I'm outta ideas. So I'm asking you hopefully that it won't be too much trouble and cost us both too much time and money. But if it is gonna cost us both alot of time and money to get it replaced I'll simply glue it because you gave me a sweet deal and were super stand up about the 2 weeks late payment thing.

~ Kisses,

Esbatty"

So yeah to recap I got a good deal and then punked again in the ass by DC Direct.

*Head2Desk*

Anywho, there will be a nice big installment of Fugitives From Reality coming up this weekend, there is a graduation party thing going on Saturday with my folks so expect either a Friday or Sunday update.

Now I have some more room cleaning to do, damn company coming over. Furballs under my bed half the size of each of my cats. Gah!