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Originally Posted by Peteparker

I don't think either are bad for collectors.

Scalpers offer availability of some extremely hard to find toys to every part of the world. Even if it is more expensive, and drives up the value, at least those toys are actually available to collectors. Without them, people in small towns throughout the world would have no hope of finding the rare stuff.

Hoarders actually bring up the value of the hard to find items when they eventually bring them out and sell them. Without these types of collectors, we'd have no hope of ever finding things like Action Comics #1 stuck between the pages of an old dictionary. They add excitement to the possibility of finding gold amongst garbage.

Both of them actually buy the toys we all like, adding production value to the lines, and allowing the makers of these toys to profit enough to continue making them. Sometimes they can even improve on the line with extra revenue.

Without both of these aspects of the toy collecting community, less toys would be produced, and less would be available to the general public.

What most collector's dislike of these people comes down to is money. Both of these types of collectors end up charging much more than retail for the things they buy, and a lot of collectors don't have the money to pay these inflated prices. So really, what we all get mad about is not these types buying the toys, but the fact that they're selling them for more than we can afford to pay.

I personally don't have anything against either of these types of collectors. I just do my best to try not to give in to their prices.