[Peteparker]

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Originally Posted by Tarooster

So I had kinda just given up on hunting for wave 2 then 2 days ago I found Bucky Cap at Target and thought well he will probably be the only I get since every place around here gets wiped out so quick and I don't feel like paying crazy prices for them. Then yesterday me and my fiancée are out shopping for nothing in particular and of course I stumble upon all of wave 2 at a place I never would've looked at before. They were marked up a bit (they wanted $30 for FF spidey) so I only grabbed Fantomex, Tball, and Madame Masque as they were priced at $21 a piece which is only slightly higher than TRU.

They had unmasked Daken and Drax at about $25 so I'm gonna shop around to see if I can get them cheaper somewhere else. It's just funny cause i hunted and hunted and then when I stopped looking I found the whole wave in one spot.



I might just try to get the last two pieces of Zola off eBay as the other two figures aren't really must haves for me.

I've got extra Buckys and Unmasked Dakens... PM me.

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Originally Posted by DogFashionDisco

I'm glad you found the figures you were looking for, but it still really pisses me off that there are stores where the owners essentially buy out cool figures from retail stores and charge a premium at their own shops. The place might have just ordered them directly and jacked up the price, which I think is just as bad. Fucking vultures....

I can agree with the first part. Buying up retail to fill your own local retail space at higher premiums is unfair.

However, having seen the back-end of the cost of ordering them directly, I know first-hand that the higher pricing you'll pay at LCS due to them ordering from Diamond is absolutely necessary. Smaller stores are forced to pay higher base costs for these items, and have to make some kind of profit to continue stocking them. Often, they just barely break even on these, but continue to carry them in the hopes that it brings in a wider range of customers who will buy other things they really make money on.

My experience is purely based on the 3.75" characters sold for around $13 each.

It sucks, but it's a necessary evil to having some of these items available in LCS'.

That said, if the items are priced double what they cost or more, you're likely dealing with a definitive 'scalper'.