Now that the Breyerfest rush has worn off, I have gotten no less than 11 inquiries about the mid year releases this weekend. I don't blame these people at all for wondering why their hard earned money didn't amount to anything yet, and while I understand Breyer can't control shipping delays every once in a while, I'm upset with Breyer for nearly everything being delayed this year. They promised their dealers to have the shipping issues sorted out by the mid year (I have the email stating this) and so we believed in their estimate of late June to early July but the delays are still happening. While I will always support Breyer as a company, I would much rather them give us a far out shipping estimate and be early than be a month or more late because they couldn't deliver by their estimated ship time. The first year models were delayed too but they weren't THIS late. The delays are getting worse, as evident with Fireheart being pushed back two months. If shipments continue being late through the end of the year, I'm probably just going to take partial payments to reserve the 2022 regular run releases in January instead of the entire amount at once because, needless to say, I have some very unhappy customers right now for a situation out of my control. I've already had to make two refunds and it's going to hit hard on my business if I have too many people demanding refunds. Again I don't blame any of you at all, I feel the same way, but this is why there are only a handful of us left that still do pre-orders because it leaves us to the mercy of Breyer's timeline. I do thank all of you who have been patient through all this and are happy to at least know that you will have a model reserved for you, whenever they come in. Ok, rant over. I would like to share a couple pieces of good news so this post isn't all bad news. I have been building my Othello conga up this year, something I didn't know if I wanted to do because of all the rarities on that mold. However, I have been on a draft craze lately. In my hunt for Mariah's Boon, I found one new in box on Mercari and used my 10% coupon on him so I got him for only $68. When he arrived, I was holding my collective breath that his box side wouldn't be damaged from being in box so long (he already has very little color as it is being medicine hat marked) and thankfully he wasn't, however I was shocked to find that he wasn't new in box like the seller described. The box had indeed been opened and a blade of dried Kentucky bluegrass was stuck in the tape. That's when I noticed the signature. It was hard to see because it was in gold ink and on his bay spot. I couldn't believe that I actually had a signed copy! This model turned out to be a lot nicer than I anticipated. I am in love with that blue eye, and this particular model has some nice shading in his mane. Check out those chestnut tips! I can't believe I didn't add this horse a long time ago. Also, since he was kept in his box this whole time, his bare plastic areas are really white, not yellowed like most of the models I see. I'm just so excited to have found a rare signed model! Some more good news is that my OTTB, Ace, now has an official surgery date of August 9th. A few months ago I posted about a cyst that formed over his head that turned out to be extra teeth in his ear due to too much inbreeding in Thoroughbreds. My vet recommended surgery but it's a very risky surgery because there is a chance of fracturing his skull and he wasn't willing to do it, so we had to find someone else. As we found out, there aren't many vets who ARE willing to do it. After a few months of searching, we finally found one in Columbus, Ohio who is willing to try. I have been saving up for this surgery ever since we found out he'd need it so I'm just glad it's going to finally happen. I've been a ball of nerves worrying about how it will go though and about the upcoming 3 hour trailer ride he'll have to take just to get to the center. I'll definitely update, maybe even do a diary type post of his travel and recovery.
As to the mid years, I will update as soon as I hear an update from Breyer. I'm sure they are tired of hearing from me because I've been messaging them every week since the last week in June. Every week they tell me the same thing, that it should be next week, and this is what I was told again today. They also said that Thriller the Halloween horse has been moved up from an estimated September delivery to August delivery, but they didn't tell me when in August. Since August is literally only a few days away, I'm hoping it's soon. My guess is that if they are starting to ship Breyerfest orders this week as they said they would, then the mid years will probably come after all those orders are shipped out, which would probably be the first or second week in August. Let's cross our fingers that this is correct because I, like you all, am tired of waiting. Please just give us our horses, Breyer. Comments are closed.
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