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Old 06-23-2013, 01:02 AM   #129
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well as the consumer we have a right to complain, It dose make us all look a little bitchy at times, but that's just because were on a "bitch-gripe-and complain" type thread. If your here you're probably a fan of the marvel lines (ML/MU) overall. the things they have done right are innumerable, there a great company with a billion moving parts that no one here probably has a total grasp of. That said they do have those "what are they thinking" moments. and as a collector it gets frustrating. I don't believe that they have no respect for collectors. Especially in lines like MU and ML that are geared completely to collectors.(children dint buy a 15$ action figure that has only appeared in an obscure comic ten years ago) and in this economy anyone who makes anything will tell you, you NEED every customer you can get! in this case especially. the adults with deeper pockets than children will buy the big ticket items and in my case (as with MANY of you) every figure they put out. I'm pretty sure we collectors make up a bigger piece of Hasbro's pie than most estimate. Hell I'm pretty sure I put Vonner's Kids through college myself.
To the parts I've bolded, the thing these days us that parents are more likely to pay the full retail for items (especially the helicarriers etc) compared to collectors who often state that they'll wait for clearance. Someone here has already mentioned that point too.
Collectors don't make up a bigger slice of the pie, this is more or less a cold hard fact. The overwhelming sales come from those buying for or on the behalf of children. The parents of kids reading comics and the grandparents/relatives/etc buying it casually for a kid because it looks like something a kid will like.

This is really reaching the point of repetition, though. There are those of us here who see and accept the world as round and those bitchy collectors who are still adamant that it's flat
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