Here at Toy Wizards, one of our goals in sharing toy news and preorder announcements is helping you find the best store to serve your collecting needs. And with that, we often receive questions about which store/e-commerce site is the best place to purchase goods. As toy collectors ourselves, we’ve got you covered. That is why we have put together this handy guide with the pros and cons of each store that we most frequently use to help make sure your collection is as big and pretty as you want it to be. Happy Collecting, everyone!
Big Bad Toy Store ✯✯✯✯✯
Pros
- Great Packing and Shipping
- Pile of Loot
- Easy ordering
- Low Shipping costs
Cons
- Sometimes takes a while to get orders shipped
Entertainment Earth ✯✯✯✯✯
Pros
- Gets items in early
- Great Packing and Shipping
- Easy ordering
- Low Shipping costs on in stock items
Cons
- High Shipping costs on pre orders
HobbyLink Japan ✯✯✯✯
Pros
- Specializes in Japanese products
- Has a huge catalog of collectibles
- Very reasonable shipping costs considering its from another country
- Items come very carefully packaged
Cons
- Certain items are arbitrarily high in cost in spite of currency exchange rate
Hasbro Pulse ✯✯✯✯
Pros
- Everything Hasbro
- Hasbro Pulse membership Free Shipping
- Easy ordering
- Hasbro Pulse Exclusives
Cons
- Pre order items are short stocked and sell out quick
- Hard to keep track of account orders
- Packing and Shipping can be poor at times
- Items are sent out much after EE and BBTS
Amazon ✯✯✯
Pros
- Amazon Prime free shipping
- Easy returns
- Easy ordering
- Ease of keeping track of orders
- Quick shipping
- Gets items first most of the time
Cons
- Pre order items can sell out quick
- Market prices after Amazon sells out
- Packing and Shipping can be poor at times
- Damaged items can not alway be replaced
- Can and will put shipping label right on the box
Target ✯✯✯
Pros
- Easy ordering
- Easy returns online or in store
- Ease of keeping track of orders
- Quick shipping
- Items packed well
Cons
- Pre order items are very limited
- Exclusives can be difficult to order online
- Damaged items can not alway be replaced
Walmart ✯
Pros
- Easy ordering
- Easy returns online or in store
- Ease of keeping track of orders
Cons
- Pre order items are very limited
- Exclusives can be difficult to order online
- Wrong items sent at times
- Packing and shipping is very very poor
Sideshow Collectibles ✯✯✯✯✯
Pros
- Easy ordering
- Superb Packing and shipping
- Ease of keeping track of orders
- Payment Plans available
Cons
- None
Toy Wiz ✯
Pros
- Gets Items early for pre orders
- Large online selection
Cons
- Above average price on pre orders
- Very high prices
- Expensive third party seller on multiple other sites
Megalopolis City of Collectibles No Stars
Pros
- Cheap sales
- Cheap Pre Orders
Cons
- Very very poor customer service
- extremely long packing and shipping times
- In Stock and pre order items not filled after weeks with no response from customer service
- No refunds on in stock orders being cancelled even after weeks of not filling that order
- Very slow to refund
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