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Originally Posted by Deserter Goose Both of the orders I placed are still in limbo (e.g. in process), including the one I placed about twenty minutes after the promo code started working. Crossing my fingers, but I won't cry if they're cancelled.

But sometimes its nice to have a good cry.

I will definitely cry if my orders don't ship.

I've had one ship so far (Scud: the Whole Shebang), and the rest are still In Progress.

Marginal, was there an email that followed after you placed an order. I just ordered the two walking dead comp 1 and 2. I just checked order Status and says "In progress via standard shippin." I have not received an order shipped email which I am concerned about.

Still haven't received a cancellation email in my products. I don't think I've ever had an order cancelled through them, although having them fulfill the order with the right products is a different story...

Can't wait to get used copies of Everybody Poops in place of my Sandman Slipcase and Death Note collections.

I just received an shipping confirmation email and was excited until I saw it was just a couple of CDs I had ordered the other day. Boo.

I've also noticed that GoHastings likes to pile all of their shipping emails on me at 1AM EST now.

Getting emails on my order right now. Sandman Slipcase Set shipped for $10. They must have a set time to release late-night confirmations, for whatever reason.

I got shipping confirmations for my stuff as well.

Yep, just got notices for a bunch (Death Note, Walking Dead, Ouran High School, Freakangels). As usual with Gohastings, there were a couple I didn't receive "Shipped" emails for (Scott Pilgrim, Bone) even though they're also showing as "Shipped."

Damn... looks like everything went through, except Calvin and Hobbes which is still in progress. Awesome!

Originally Posted by xXI SPECTER IXx Marginal, was there an email that followed after you placed an order. I just ordered the two walking dead comp 1 and 2. I just checked order Status and says "In progress via standard shippin." I have not received an order shipped email which I am concerned about.

Just keep checking your Order History on their website... sometimes their emails are inconsistent. As mentioned above, I received "Shipped" emails for most but not all of my items.

I'm kinda bummed I missed both the Scott Pilgrim box set and Calvin and Hobbes (I assume its the box set paperback collection?) when I was browsing/ordering last night. Those would have been awesome to pick up.

Regardless, I just got an email that said my entire order of 6 books shipped. All of them had the same tracking number except one, and that one had no tracking number.

Strange that seemingly only two people got cancellation emails that specifically mentioned the price mistake.

And yes, Hastings sends out most of their email batches for ads and shipping confirmations during the night. Probably saves them on bandwidth. A ton of other retailers do this too.

got shipping confirmations on my walking dead compendiums

I haven't received an email yet, hoping I get a shipped email notice.

Also to the people whose orders got canceled, did you guys order a butt load or order close to when they pulled the plug?

Originally Posted by kodave Strange that seemingly only two people got cancellation emails that specifically mentioned the price mistake.

Since I posted about the cancellation, I received shipping confirmation emails for an earlier order so it looks like I'll get those. I guess at some point during the night they noticed all the box sets being sold for $10 and pulled the plug on the deal.

Aaaaaaaaaand Calvin and Hobbes has shipped! Sweet!

I just got shipping confirmatino for 2 of the 4 books I ordered, Art of Udon 2, and the Darksiders artbook.

My Walking Dead compendiums have shipped. Success!

Actually, do many people buy books in hasting just doing as a flipper?

Originally Posted by ckc4043 Actually, do many people buy books in hasting just doing as a flipper?

If the book is rare/semi-rare and I can buy it cheaply and know I'll make a nearly-guaranteed high profit on it, I'll flip it. I think I bought out their whole supply of one of the Guardians of the Galaxy volumes that I've been making a nice profit margin on. I also bought like probably 10+ Captain America Omnibuses at $13 each that have fetched nice profit over time, but that was like 3+ish years ago. If Hastings is going to price things ridiculously cheap, I'll take it and make some extra spending cash out of it.

But selling on eBay is a hassle, trying to sell privately or trade on various forums is often just as bad as eBay if not worse, etc. And the secondary market on graphic novels is particularly fickle with Amazon Marketplace sellers distorting the realistic pricing schemes when sellers use ridiculous algorithms. So to me its not worth it just to try and flip books from Hastings as a regular thing. Though with the 2 For $10 one could have easily made quite a large profit, but you would have to put in a lot for that initial investment. And I'd imagine Hastings might have caught those orders, versus people who were just clearly buying books for themselves (but of course that's just speculation).

I re-sell a certain number of books I get from Hastings, but that's often because I've ended up acquiring a duplicate copy from maybe buying a lot of books somewhere else, or upgraded to a better format or something like that. Usually with Hastings' prices/sales I can manage to break even on what I paid for things from them even after factoring in seller fees and shipping costs. The nice thing about some of the expensive books on Hastings is if you can get them in the $5 or $7 sales, you can discover and try some interesting books you wouldn't normally go for. If you like it, keep it for your collection. If you don't, you should be able to recoup your $5 or $7 and break even if the market price was leading Hastings to price the book at $100+.

my walking dead shipped, i ordered about 730am est. They probably caught it at some point after everyone got to work there