[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The problem is Amazon does not seem to be getting them in for themselves. I have yet to see War Machine and Valkyrie available from Amazon.

They will eventually, I'm sure. Patience is just required. Basically the usual flow of collectible items goes this like:

Starts showing up on Amazon through Third Party Sellers - generally can be a month or two months, sometimes less and sometimes more but usually 1-2 months seems about average. I think because these tend to be specialty buyers and distributors of such collectibles ship those out first because they were preordered?

Amazon will keep it in stock for a time. Time varies - but they'll have things usually for a little while - 6 months, a year, sometimes more. it really just depends. And you can sometimes find things for less than MSRP (I just picked up two Sentrys for less than the MSRP earlier this week). But the key thing is, there is no way to know just how long something will be in stock. But at some point will be, it just won't be around forever. At times Amazon will get restocks but don't count on it. I mean they may get restocks on things soon after but I'm talking months later.

Once stock goes out directly from Amazon it's back to third party sellers and that's where prices get really bloodthirsty. It's no longer the "gotta have it firts" like it was before Amazon got stock. This is now "this is now only available a limited number of ways MWUAHAHAHAH!" And prices can get insane on that.

Naturally this doesn't take into accounts things that are exclusive, like SDCC exclusives. Amazon generally won't stock those directly.