Episode 25: A Seaweed Hat
Bad-Dragon is a terrible business
So this WAS a wonderful business that I patronized at least once a year for many years. Then the pandemic hit so they changed things up for the safety of their employees.... and never went back. What's the big change you might ask? Well, before, you could order your own custom toy whenever you liked but then there was a wait period of several months because they got backlogged from so many orders. That led to a lot of negative reviews because people were always complaining about how long it took for their order to be made then shipped. Now, they've solved that problem by not allowing you to even order a toy. Literally since March 2020 if you go to their website you are greeted with a wonderful drop down message that states: "Our queue for custom toys is now full. Thank you for your orders! If you're still interested in purchasing our toys, check out what we have in stock by clicking on this banner."
Since spring of last year ANY TIME I go to bad-dragon.com that's the message I get. And since about Jan of this year, they're always almost out of any "inventory", which is just toys that someone else ordered and changed their minds or toys that have something wrong with them, aka a "flop". So their old business model was take orders whenever they come in and suffer bad reviews for taking so long to fulfill and ship said orders. They solved the issue of people complaining about long order wait times by simply just not letting people order lol. Now you have to be in some sort of elite, privileged group of people who know exactly when they plan on opening for orders. Once they do, they fill the next 4 months worth of orders in a few moments then shut down the ordering portion of their site again. The average consumer has no way of knowing if or when they might be allowed to patronize this business. Who would have thought that you'd need to know someone on the inside just to even order a fake dragon dick?
TL:DR They've solved their issue of taking forever to fill orders by limiting when people can order and then still taking forever to fill orders.
…Thank you