u/Mental-Royal-9926

I secured a Chinese 3rd Anniversary Set Drop. Finally got one on a release after months of failing.

Reddit Family: keep spamming the presale button. After an hour, I was rewarded and finally secured a premium pre-order! Don’t give up! Spam and beat the bots. Fuck the scalpers!

Wanted to add some more context to my final victory of claiming a premium Bandai release: I read multiple posters advising to keep spamming the pre order button but gave up after about 30 minutes. The next day I’d read posts of people getting the drop 1–1.5 hours after release.

I believe Bandai is getting more sophisticated in their filtering of bots. This means a single IP consistently trying to secure a single drop will eventually be rewarded. But the catch is you have to keep trying.
It sucks that scalpers have reduced the players market to this, but I believe any insights into how this game is played should be shared with my fellow OP brothers and sisters who play.

GLTA. I hope you get as lucky as I did tonight.

Please share your advice and help as it assists everyone trying to actually play the game instead of scalp the market.

Long time pest control operator here. Ran a small business focused on natural pest control and just got out. Now that I'm done, I want to blow the whistle. I've tried to email the Department of Agriculture and contacted the media, but both just seem too busy. Hoping the Reddit community can get behind this and help.

Here's the simple version: mosquito companies like mosquito squad are breaking the law by misusing pesticides. I used to work for mosquito squad and they operate in Rhode Island. This is worse than rodenticides, we're talking about the only PFAS insecticide out there getting blown all over New England in clear violation of the law. I know because I used to work for them. It all revolves around the label of a pesticide called Bifenthrin. Most companies actually don't use this product because of all the restrictions on the label around mosquito control, by this company can't resist. The reason why? It is incredibly cheap. Of course, it's about the money.

Well, in the pest control industry, most actual pest control companies get inspected, but this company is only open seasonally in the summer when inspectors are worried about farms. They aren't spraying bifenthrin out of their backpack foggers in the fall-spring when most companies get audited so they keep getting away with it.

Here's where they are breaking the law. It's simple: the product has a 10 mph restriction where no spraying is allowed if the wind is 10 mph or over. This only applies to mosquito control. Why? because the backpacks they use produce ultra fine droplets that drift for hundreds of feet. When I worked for them, we would "use hand held wind meters" to ensure the wind speed was under 10 mph. Guess what? All you have to do is change the angle of how you hold it or stand behind a tree and it's always less than 10 mph. We were told this by the manager "just make it read under 10 and spray everything". If you look at weather data from stations, the wind speed is over 10 mph almost every day at some point in time.

LABEL VIOLATION = BREAKING THE LAW

Another label violation is that the product has restrictions on how often it can be sprayed. You have to wait at least 7 days before reapplying at lower rates or 28 days at high rates 1 oz/gal. They treat every 21 days!!!! The trick from the manager: "write down that you put in 0.9 oz or 0.5 oz, no one is checking". It doesn't matter though because we always did free retreatments. Most of the time this was new customers and they called in the first week (inside of 7 days). We sprayed the same mix. Bifenthrin was in there and it was under 7 days. Somehow the system would report it as not being in there, but trust me, the only thing we had to spray came from the same 100 gallon tank. We sprayed it inside 7 days.

LABEL VIOLATION = BREAKING THE LAW

Here is the label for the people looking for it:
https://www.controlsolutionsinc.com/hubfs/Specimen%20Labels/Specimen-BifenIT-53883-118.pdf?hsLang=en

It's long so go to page 23 for the specific mosquito section.

Why? $ Because bifenthrin is cheap. They don't care about the law, the label, the environment, our drinking water, birds, non targets, only their profit.

Listen, I don't want anyone or anything to get sick from mosquitos. Mosquitos are worst. Canine heartworm, encephalitiiis, west nile, even malaria now. Its all terrible. But you can control mosquitoes without using bifenthrin. There are natural products that work great. There are even MUCH safer pesticides. Bifenthrin is a carcinogen and it is being sprayed and drifting all over.  It is fluorinated as well which means it meets the OECD (international scientific) definition and would qualify as a PFAS, because it contains a trifluoromethyl (-CF₃) group. 

Why the hell are they choosing the worst possible thing to spray???? And hell, when I did work for them 3 years ago they sprayed a natural product that had pictures of dead fish on it. I asked about that shit and they said it was the cheapest product around. Again..... for the money. When I was running my own business, I used a natural product that was safe (no pictures of dead fish and big hazards) and just had essential oils so I know there are other options out there.

PFAS restrictions are enforced all over the place, but this company just goes about its business spraying and drifting it everywhere.

Other companies in pest control see enforcement of this product. mosquito squad continues to pollute. It's worse than rodenticides or anything else because it is EVERYWHERE. Hopefully someone with a voice and influence will pick this up and force a change. I'm sure they will deny it if asked, but you can't argue weather data that says the wind was 10 mph+ during a day. Was it 10mph when they took the wind reading? Maybe, maybe not, but here's my point: it could gust up to 10mph during the application. They aren't monitoring it constantly... why doesn't the department of agriculture hit them for every day the wind speed exceeded 10mph and sprayed this product for mosquito control? Seems easy enough. I know some year-round companies that this did happen to. But not mosquito squad. they just keep getting away with it.

Long time pest control operator here. Ran a small business focused on natural pest control and just got out. Now that I'm done, I want to blow the whistle. I've tried to email the Department of Agriculture and contact the Sentinel, but both just seem too busy. Hoping the Reddit community can get behind this and help as it impacts everyone in Central Mass and the twin cities.

Here's the simple version: mosquito companies like mosquito squad are breaking the law by misusing pesticides. This is worse than rodenticides, we're talking about the only PFAS insecticide out there getting blown all over New England in clear violation of the law. I know because I used to work for them. It all revolves around the label of a pesticide called Bifenthrin. Most companies actually don't use this product because of all the restrictions on the label around mosquito control, by this company can't resist. The reason why? It is incredibly cheap. Of course, it's about the money.

Well, in the pest control industry, most actual pest control companies get inspected, but this company is only open seasonally in the summer when inspectors are worried about farms. They aren't spraying bifenthrin out of their backpack foggers in the fall-spring when most companies get audited, so they keep getting away with it.

Here's where they are breaking the law. It's simple: the product has a 10 mph restriction where no spraying is allowed if the wind is 10 mph or over. This only applies to mosquito control. Why? because the backpacks they use produce ultra fine droplets that drift for hundreds of feet. When I worked for them, we would "use hand held wind meters" to ensure the wind speed was under 10 mph. Guess what? All you have to do is change the angle of how you hold it or stand behind a tree and it's always less than 10 mph. We were told this by the manager "just make it read under 10 and spray everything". If you look at weather data from stations, the wind speed is over 10 mph almost every day at some point in time. This means you can’t use it for mosquito spraying. I called some other mosquito companies and they don’t use it for this very reason.

FEDERAL LABEL VIOLATION = BREAKING THE LAW

Another label violation is that the product has restrictions on how often it can be sprayed. You have to wait at least 7 days before reapplying at lower rates or 28 days at high rates 1 oz/gal. They treat every 21 days!!!! The trick from the manager: "write down that you put in 0.9 oz or 0.5 oz, no one is checking". It doesn't matter though because we always did free retreatments. Most of the time this was new customers and they called in the first week (inside of 7 days). We sprayed the same mix. Bifenthrin was in there and it was under 7 days. Somehow the system would report it as not being in there, but trust me, the only thing we had to spray came from the same 100 gallon tank. When I worked there, we definitely sprayed it inside 7 days.

FEDERAL LABEL VIOLATION = BREAKING THE LAW

Here is the label for the people looking for it:
https://www.controlsolutionsinc.com/hubfs/Specimen%20Labels/Specimen-BifenIT-53883-118.pdf?hsLang=en

P. 23 has the mosquito stuff.

Why? $ Because bifenthrin is cheap. They don't care about the law, the label, the environment, our drinking water, birds, non targets, only their profit.
Listen, I don't want anyone or anything to get sick from mosquitos. Mosquitos are worst. Canine heartworm, encephalitiiis, west nile, even malaria now. Its all terrible. But you can control mosquitoes without using bifenthrin. There are natural products that work great. I know, I used them after I left that company.

There are even MUCH safer pesticides. Bifenthrin is a carcinogen and it is being sprayed and drifting all over.  It is fluorinated as well which means it meets the OECD (international scientific) definition and would qualify as a PFAS, because it contains a trifluoromethyl (-CF₃) group.
 
Why the hell are they choosing the worst possible thing to spray???? And hell, when I did work for them they sprayed a “natural product” that had pictures of dead fish on it. I asked about that shit because it was terrible to work with and they said it was the cheapest product around. Again..... for the money. When I was running my own business, I used a natural product that was safe (no pictures of dead fish and big hazards) and just had essential oils so I know there are other options out there. They also used toxic rodenticides, I know Terminix does too, but they aren’t blowing everything everywhere like the mosquito companies.

PFAS restrictions are enforced all over the place, but this company just goes about its business spraying and drifting it everywhere.

Other companies in pest control see enforcement of this product. mosquito squad continues to pollute. It's worse than rodenticides or anything else because it is EVERYWHERE. Hopefully someone with a voice and influence will pick this up and force a change. I'm sure they will deny it if asked, but you can't argue weather data that says the wind was 10 mph+ during a day. Was it 10mph when they took the wind reading? Maybe, maybe not, but here's my point: it could gust up to 10mph during the application. They aren't monitoring it constantly... why doesn't the department of agriculture hit them for every day the wind speed exceeded 10mph and sprayed this product for mosquito control? Seems easy enough. I know some year-round companies that this did happen to. But not mosquito squad. they just keep getting away with it.