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I think if there is a code of collecting then clearly this guy has broken it, although since he's obviously not actually a collector then he's free to do what he likes.

I'm going to offer up the opposing view though, the other end of the chain. There seems to be a good few threads on here about scalpers, people who buy purely to sell on eBay. I'll be honest, I sometimes feed these people. I live in Europe, where distribution is somewhere between useless and hopeless, I try and pre-order on BBTS, but sometimes they sell out too quickly so I buy said figure on eBay.

I'm sure people in Australia/NZ (and in fact the more remote parts of North America/Asia) do the same. I could argue these people offer a service, essentially when you see your local toystore bare of the newest, most exciting figures, people like me have bought them on eBay.

I apologise, really, I'd love to buy them at retail and if it was a matter of getting up at 6am to do so I would, I can't, and so I pay the market (eBay) value. You don't get the figure, I do and I pay more for the privilege, the difference going to the scalpers who get up early.