TFAW bi-weekly order. Instead of 10 books, 3 are processing including the SIKTC 17 1:25. Now, this shouldn’t mail in the flat mailer because it’s a 1:25, but my confidence level isn’t super high right now. It’s under the 5 book threshold, so yikes city.
If you have do not bend on your account preferences they’re supposed to ship in a Gemini type mailer. I’ve never had a single order ship in a Gemini type mailer ever from TFAW and I’ve had it in my account for a very long time. I’ve also had ratio incentives ship in the flimsy mailer as well. So who knows what they’ll do. I’m letting my existing preorders fill and not ordering from TFAW unless absolutely necessary. They’ve had a lot of chances and they’ve run out of bs excuses. I understand books shipping late if they don’t get them in time, however it’s a bullshit excuse when an order processes for 2-3 weeks before shipping.
How do you add “Do not bend” to account preferences?
I believe you have to call, email or the fastest would be using the chat feature through tfaws website during business hours.
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Man I know Brendon is just trying to help but am i the only one who thinks it is wack that in order to get your comics shipped properly you need to ask to put do not bend on your account, don’t order bags and boards or make sure you order enough comics per shipment to get a box or Gemini and not an envelope? Why are all orders just not shipped the damn same?!? They absolutely cannot control their shipments arriving to them from other places but THEY CAN CONTROL EVERYTHING ELSE!
One order that finally shipped was processed on 6/17. It was for 12 damn comics. It finally shipped and is estimated to be delivered on July 8th. 3 weeks to get me 12 comics. This has nothing to do with Diamond shipments being late. It has everything to do with Tfaw not being a very good place to order comics from. And on top of that nonsense they are nickel and diming me every week for shipping charges with $46 in shipping for 59 comics split into 4 orders. I am so annoyed with this place right now.
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I assume everyone does this anyway but make sure you look over your invoices line by line. This is from Beedas. Supposed to be cover price but was put in at $32.49 so I sent it back so he can adjust. He also undercharged me on a different incentive which I told him about as well.
UNITED STATES CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 (OF 5) CARNERO 1:50* 1 $32.49
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TFAW good -Ordered two Department of Truth #1 5th prints and they were both secret variants. That’s good!
TFAW bad- I have no idea what day or for how much I will be charged when an order processes. And yes I know about the “estimate shipping for pre-orders” tab. That doesn’t tell me when I am going to get charged and the amount is never right anyway. So I got hit with a $32 NSF fee the other day because an order processed. I had enough money in my other account so if I had known how much and what day I was going to be charged I could have just transferred the money from one account to the other. Tfaw is the only comic shop I have ever ordered from that you never know what day you will be charged or for how much until you get the e-mail and it’s already been charged to your account. That’s bad!
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I just use a credit card. When things get processed and charged, I just then pay the credit card amount same day or next day so I don’t get any interest added on my credit card (plus my credit card has points towards airline miles). Not having funds in an account used for purchases is kind of on you, not the other party I think, at least my opinion. 
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I would agree with you if every place in the history of purchasing also never told you what day or for how much they were going to charge you.
Add up costs on all pre-orders, throw in a few extra bones for the potential shipping… done! It’s still on you I think…
No. It’s not on me but that’s ok.
I have a lot of bills each month that I don’t have any idea what their final total will be, water, electric, etc that I have on auto bill pay. I just make sure I’m using an account that has enough funds to cover the costs. It’s on me if I overdraft and didn’t make sure funds were available. I see no difference here. You bought X copies of a comic on pre-order. You know you’ll be charged for them eventually, just make sure you have the funds available with the account you’re ordering with or use an account like a credit card that doesn’t depend on available funds or you get charged with overdraft. Or hell, use an account with overdraft protection that pulls from your other account. It’s a no brainer solution if you ask me.
I know you dislike them now, but just seems like you’re stretching at this point in pointing out a non-issue I think.
Just my two cents!
I have all those same bills except there is a due date and an amount told to me before I am charged so I don’t see how a company not telling when or for how much I will be charged is the same thing but you keep on keepin on my man
I stubbed my toe the other day. I blame TFAW…
I woke up this morning and my mortgage provider set me up for auto draft without my permission, and I had already made a payment… nothing like a double mortgage payment to get your July 4th weekend started off right!
That’s something to gripe about. Did it at least all apply to principle and not any interest? For the additional payment that is.
I called them early and they are returning it via a check…they’ll take it out instantly, but ohhhh you want it back… sorry its gonna take 10 days…
I would have likely told them… just apply to next months or hold it for next months. Or pay it all towards principle and no interest, to really knock down the total owed on the house. 
Yeah I thought about it but it’s not a small amount, and I like to have a certain amount in the bank for emergencies (I got 4 of those rugrats that can cause all sorts of problems).
It’s all good, at least they answered quickly and are working on it.
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I have many bills set to autopay and don’t know how much they are until I get charged. That’s fairly common when you have something that’s not a set monthly cost set to autopay (as your TFAW account is).
As Poyo said, you could add up your preorders in advance so you can plan a ballpark number if you are worried it may be a bit tight.
Ideally the estimated shipping option would work, but as we all know it doesn’t as it doesn’t factor the weeks correctly.
But there is the easy fix of just doing the math from your preorders.
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