Down With Fujimi!

Today, I bought the fujimi garage and tools set, and those ****ers at fujimi
wrote in plain sight "GARAGE AND TOOLS" yet somehow they got away with only giving me the garage, no ****ing tools. They even had the balls to put pics of tools on the side of the ****ing box. I'm sure in japanese they wrote "tools not included" and right next to it, "those dumb*** americans don't know there's no tools" Well guess what fujimi, F**K YOU!
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I have the same kit, i also got very pissed when i didnt find any tools or nothing, just the goddamn garage

I guess you need to see the Tools box to understand what they were trying to acheive.

Take it back where you bought it?

The stupid hobbytown usa didn't carry the tools box, so i had no hint.
I'd bring it back, but i want it. and i just figured out it costs $25 for the tools set. Fujimi is a bunch of scam artists preying on the modeler. isn't it illegal to put garage and tools on there, but only have the garage? I should sue...

LOL, that would get you far.

To be honest, I have owned both sets and bought them seperately, I never thought that either or the other contained both items
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I have the tools one, notice on the box that garage is in bold letters and tools is outline only, on the tools box they are the other way around. Maybe that might help.

you never figured what the transparent pictures/text meant?

i'm sorry, but it seems obvious to me that the tools aren't included, hence them not being totally visible in the box art.

The stupid hobbytown usa didn't carry the tools box, so i had no hint.
I'd bring it back, but i want it. and i just figured out it costs $25 for the tools set. Fujimi is a bunch of scam artists preying on the modeler. isn't it illegal to put garage and tools on there, but only have the garage? I should sue...

Seems pretty straight forward to me what the box contains - and I am sure if you read Japanese it would tell you clearly on the box what it does and does not contain :icon16:

It's really quite confusing, and I can totally understand why you're pissed.

Fujimi used "Garage & Tools" as the name for the whole line of garage/tools sets, which includes boxed items such as the garage only, the tools only, and the garage and tools in the same box. There's also a "antique garage" (no tools.)

The "Garage & Tools" name also appears on the driver figure set, driver figure and accessories set and the "Misc. Accessories Parts" set, all of which includes neither a garage nor any tools.

You can see the box art, including the tools + no garage, here:
http://www.best1hobby.com/html/fujimi/fuaccessories.html

At least it didnt come with a diecast garage like Tamiya would have done.

Yep, 100% sure it's no kind of scam. Fujimi stuff wasn't meant to be sold to English speakers anyhow.

there is a set with both Garage and Tools include.
the point of only buying the garage is that you can extend to a double garage, but only need one set of tools.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/domc/fuj11118box.gif

@ mikemechanic - ROFL

@ Digitalbanzai - so why the heck did they name the set in English - to sell the kit to eskimos?? :confused: ;)

I don't suppose it is a scam in any way but I DO think it is a case of very bad and misleading packaging, albeit probably unintentional at the time.

I don't know if Fujimi are still producing this set, but if they are, they SHOULD change the packaging - particularly in the day and age of internet shopping where you won't have the box in your hands and there is a high probability that the retailer will merely give the FULL name of the product.

I don't consider myself to be an idiot and I am a pretty cautious shopper but I have seen this set for sale in many places on the web and until now I had been under the impression/assumed that it contained BOTH tools AND garage. I will admit though that I have never looked very closely as I have never considered purchasing it.

In today's world, the onus is on the seller to avoid misleading customers. This is partiularly the case with a reputable company like Fujimi. I hope they read this :D

@ mikemechanic - ROFL

@ Digitalbanzai - so why the heck did they name the set in English - to sell the kit to eskimos?? :confused: ;)


So does that mean stuff like this is meant for Americans too? :rofl:
http://www.feitclub.com/images/engrish_s.jpg

What i'm saying is, Fujimi kits were originally made to be sold in Japan. There are really no 'stores' in other countries that sell Fujimi stuff other than hobby shops that buy them from wholesalers in Japan. It's like someone in Japan getting a Revell kit.

I work in the hobby business, in both the wholesale and retail sides of the business. I've seen a few people make the same mistake, but when you see the Tools set along with the Garage set, it makes perfect sense. Fujimi has used this same packaging for about 20 years now, so I guess not too many people have complained about it. Also, Fujimi kits are not shinkwrapped as they come from Japan, so if the box was sealed it most likely would have been by that particular Hobbytown. (We do not seal them - can't speak for other distrib's) If it was not sealed, then why didn't you inspect it? Japanese kits are not shinkwrapped for the reason that Japanese modelers always inspect their kits at the shop. American modelers RARELY do. I never mind cutting the wrap off for a customer - it takes about 30 secs to re-shrink it, but if they get home and something's missing or the kit wasn't what the thought then they have to drive back and by then they're pissed. I would rather they leave the shop with what they wanted the first time. Wish more folks would ask to see what's in the boxes - I like having an excuse to check kits out on company time!

I think you should be more worried about HobbyTown USA preying on modelers by marking up a kit like that 20%.

LOL, that would get you far.

To be honest, I have owned both sets and bought them seperately, I never thought that either or the other contained both items
..

I also assumed they were separate. I guess if you could translate Japanese it would tell you that.

.... Fujimi stuff wasn't meant to be sold to English speakers anyhow.

Does this also include Japanese who speak English?

I was too excited to really think
about why they only outlined the
"& Tools"