[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by M3T4L V1KING

Well I'm the kind of guy who doesn't do a whole load of purchasing off the internet. If I do, it's usually for one figure off ebay, not an online store. So it's really the fact that me, and many others, aren't given a choice but to sign up and get figures off their site instead of retail. That's why I was so against it (Plus I hate the 20$+ price tag). But once again, the whole "All or Nothing" thing has me VERY conflicted now.

And I have absolutely horrible luck finding the things that I really want, in person. Especially popular DCUC figures. I never saw Nightwing, Didn't get him until the reissue. I've never seen a Sinestro Corps Sinestro, except rare times one shows up on ebay, and gets bid way out of my range. Never saw a Sinestro Batman in the wild. Only saw Raven once. The only Harley Quinn I saw was the one I own. And some of the most recent transformers, I've never found, and wouldn't have them had I not preordered (Like RtS Jazz and Lugnut, Generations Wheeljack, Thundercracker, and Warpath)
So I've taken to preordering the ones I feel I need and cant do without, from BigBadToyStore. (Pretty confidant I'll never find a Stargirl, or any of wave 20 out there)
And now I've taken to preordering most things, like both GLC waves, and the GL Movie Masters from them. To me in the long run, the club subscription from Matty isn't much different than what I've been doing.

When it cost $15 to fill my tank, I used to spend nights driving around from walmart to walmart searching for toys that I wanted. Did that usually once a week, sometimes two or three times if I was looking for something really rare (Or had a bad night at work). When I did that, it was really rarely that I actually bought something online, like you. And then, usually only something that wasn't already in stores, like Beast Wars Neo, or Car Robots, or something along those lines.
Now, it costs $50 to fill my tank, and my income is often only $100 a week. So for me at least, it's a lot cheaper in the long run to buy online. Even if the toy is more than retail. So, combined with the increasing difficulty to find the rare guys, plus travel... I just got a lot more comfortable letting BBTS bring them to me.
So... I can understand not being big on online shopping. I used to be that way, too.

But even now I'm getting that antsy conflicted feeling that I get with wondering if I should preorder some transformers. Do I join the club and be at ease about getting the toys I want (And worry that I can't cover them every month), or do I pass on the vague chance that I *might* me able to get in and get atrocitus for the few minutes he'll be available? Even worse if he becomes available during the random 12 hours a day my net is usually down?

But basically, like I said... for me personally the subscription isn't that much different than what I've been doing, pretty much since the Kilowog wave. I find it steep, yeah. And the "locking in" thing I'm uncomfortable with, because when push comes to shove and I don't think I can cover it, I can always cancel a BBTS preorder. If I have a couple bad months, this can literally kill me. Even worse for figures I wouldn't really want in the first place, like Starman.
But the Botcon toys are a $500 commitment, and that's usually in two huge chunks, while these are dulled out in $15-30 nuggets each month. So, there's that.

And at this point, I'm just rambling, so I'll call it a night. >_<