[Korben]

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Originally Posted by Korben

...There's an interview online with an anonymous Mattel Insider that mentions the shortage problem being solved but starting with Wave 11! I'll look it up again and post up the link soon.

So I didn't read it in an interview but in this e-mail that was sent out to Big Bad Toy Store customers regarding wave 9.

"Hi - we unfortunately have received bad news from Mattel on the DC Universe Series 9 assortment. They have informed us that they grossly under-produced this wave and that only about 25% of our order will be filled. Many other stores also apparently have suffered the same huge shortage, and the product is short across the entire market. We were extremely upset with Mattel for this news and have relayed to them how upset our customers will be as well.

At this point, we unfortunately do not expect any more shipments from Mattel. For those of you who ordered between February 13th and 14th, it is possible that your orders will fill due to cancellations and non-payment of orders from people who ordered before you (their cancelled orders will move to the next people in line automatically). If you ordered after these dates, it is very unlikely we will have any inventory, and we suggest that you purchase these figures anywhere else you may be able to find them. (You can view the date you ordered your product by logging into your BBTS account and viewing your preorders) We have heard reports they are showing up at mass market stores, and some should also be on ebay. We absolutely hate not being able to fill your order, but Mattel has really screwed up this wave and there is not anything we can do about it.

We are hoping that some sort of future production run of DCU 09 can be negotiated, but at this point there is nothing worked out. We will keep your preorders open in our system until we can determine if Mattel will produce more in the future or not. We will email you with any further news as we hear it from Mattel, hopefully something will be resolved.

The sales manager at Mattel did assure me that DCU waves 11, 12, and 13 would not suffer from the same issues, so we do not anticipate any shortages on those waves"

Notice there is no mention of wave 10.

Below is a quick list of where some of the eBay sellers are located:

Bowling Green, KY
Saint Clair Shores, Michigan
Knoxville, Tennessee
North Canton, OH
Saint Louis, MO
Columbus, Ohio
Lockport, Illinois
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Somerdale, NJ
hillsdale, NJ
Mohawk, NY

You can see where the concentration is, (Map for reference) previously I have also seen sellers from Illinois and Indiana. Today is the first time I noticed Colorado. Everyday there are more and more places.

But all sellers on eBay only seem to have a couple figures at a time. As lucky as they have been to find them they seem to only be finding a couple cases worth of figures (20-14 pcs) at a time. I'm seriously thinking this wave aside from being exclusive will also suffer from wave 9-like shortages.