There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
they "massdrop" have seemed to move away from actually giving it buyers the savings they used to. every single drop I have looked at now days is the same. they do a simple ---zon search and price the items 1 to 2 dollars less.
you have to ask yourself if that dollar or 2 is worth waiting weeks more to get your product. apparently many are willing to wait much longer to get products, as they keep offering more and more items. if people were not buying via massdrop they would not still be in business offering so many items.
don't be shocked but they have deleted posts such as this over time from many that have been around since the beginning with them and have seen the changes. so read this post fast as it may just disappear as well.
the main point is they do not pass along savings to buyers like they used to. bear in mind when WE look at prices those prices are PER UNIT not the buying in bulk price that MD gets them for, leave no doubt they get them cheaper, thus more money for MD and less savings for the group buy purchasers. which takes us right back to the first post. search zon beat the offered price by a buck or two.
this site had just gotten of the ground when I started using it. they would offer between 3 and 10 items TOPS, im not talking per "community" as they call them but total items on site.
times have changed from "lets be a middle man and help people get a better price." to "lets be a middle man and pocket the savings off the better bulk price."