[behindthemask]

I think there's things people forget. There's the price you pay for an item. There's the going ebay/amazon/online market prices, there's retail prices, and then there's this is what I think it's worth price.

Example ML xforce Deadpool, online price $25-30. retail $16-19.99 range, say what you paid is $25+15 shipping, if someone asked to buy it off me, I have to be the dick and say $40 rather then $20 because I spent the extra getting it shipped, but because it can't be found retail the guy asking to buy it will pay the extra.. now does this make me a scalper? Also factors to consider is time,effort and gas, Maybe the guy selling the figure had to spend $10 in gas to drive to a mall, fight through crowds of people, search through isles and pegs until the item is found, wait in line, then drive back home, take the time to take pics, write a description, then package,label and ship, which means another drive to the post office and back, all for maybe $10-20 profit, or in the case of LordMarvel, No profit! I can't expect everybody to do this as people would be broke and homeless, losing $$ on every deal. Yes it's a nice feeling knowing toys are in good hands and that you helped someone find an item of want/need, but at the same time I feel I should break even or make a lil extra for my efforts. Now I don't plan on being rich of my little deals and trades, but a few bucks to put towards my grocery bill or gas $$ is all I want lol. Also 80% of the $$ I make off selling/trading toys I reinvest in more toys.

Scalper is not far from friend who helps you find items you can never ever find. Lots of ebay sellers selling deadpool xforce for $20ish with exact shipping and to me that's fine. But the guy who sells the same figure and puts on super rare, ultra hard to find, etc and then adds a $300 pricetag, plus $100 to ship makes me want to vomit. But when you deal with super rare items like Dragonman then honestly you can ask whatever the hell you want as it's super hard to come by and there is no exact market value, prices of what they sell for varies from reasonable to very very high. but just because you ask $600 doesn't mean anybody will pay that. The person who is rash in decision making skills/ dumb enough to pay the price is just as bad as the scalper as it gives other sellers the notion that people will pay that price. Now sometime bidding wars will make a regular figure get to extremes such as masked daken, I remember seeing someone pay $2-300 for him.