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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

Yup. Blame the retail outlets also for what they keep saying they want that they think the customer wants.

So all the blame falls on retail outlets and Hasbro's marketing department for listening/not doing proper research into what sells. All that is out of the MU team's hands and they have no control over it.

This is exactly what the Hasbro rep said. And as for case assortments, she said they had nothing to do with them as-well. She basically said they send the distributers the product and they make out the case assortments and ship to retailers. Which makes no since because as far as I know all retailers get the same assortments from their distributers.

None of this adds up. Wouldn't retailers have varying demand?

I think we all should contact Hasbro and communicate our dissatisfaction with their distribution. And suggest they make some effort to address the situation. That we only want the opportunity to support the line. And that having to resort to ebay prices and shipping costs only leaves us with less cash on hand to buy more of their products.

I can't even begin to imagine how much money I've spent on third party sellers. I would have no problem buying items like the Quinjet, Helicarrier, variants, and figures I'm less interested in if all my money didn't go to paying these inflated prices. I would also buy GI Joe figures and vehicles to accompany my MU collection. Another plus for Hasbro.

Making more products available on HTS would be a great first step.