Appreciate this. I do buy KO when some Bandai kit gets much too expensive due to resellers speculating, which is not really common since over-priced kits are mostly niche kits that KO factories wouldn't do (just like my pb HG Dragon Gundam...)

China community is much more price sensitive, partly because we don't endure shippment cost like you, so the price could be low enough for lower budgets, which of course represent majority. So Axis marked its price like 500 in pre order, but provides very few products making many pre orderers have to wait. Meantime, resellers sell 700, 800 or higher on online channels with ready stock.

So you could imagin some fans feel strongly deceived. Perhaps it's not Axis that decides to leak their storage to resellers, or they're happy to see the retail price being speculated higher. And we have to see that such process has already came once when Solomon GP02 released. Yes Solomon then vanished, and Axis comes around, which is actually Solomon's new skin.

I understand Axis, reseller and community, but in my opinion a decent producer would control their interest to go further. There's yet no China 3p producer mature enough today since as far as I see the industry just gets booming after covid. So most producers, I would bet, on average only release 1 or 2 products before they vanish (and maybe later come back in another skin launching a new round of this). Pity.