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Iceman · 03-31-2014, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ProfessorHov

It's those people who pay who are at fault not the sellers if no one paid those prices idiot scalpers wouldn't do what they do. I'm sure most people dont know about revision cases and so on

But that's just it. People will always pay, especially early on. People with great jobs and disposable income will gladly pay 2-3 times the price to avoid trying to find something as they have more important things to do. It's not their fault that scalpers set the prices high before a figure even hits the shelf. They bank on people that will pay because it's their favorite character or just to have something before everyone else does. Scalpers pull the prices out of the sky and say "this is what people should have to pay for this figure". It would be one thing if you saw preorders or early stock on ebay with a starting price of retail but that only happens after people are posting it up for buy-it-now at triple that price. It's not a natural increase in prices like you see with a figure like MU Vision or those Deadpool/Warpath sets.

If people are patient there is pretty much always a window to buy a retail item at a good price. A lot of people don't care to wait. I paid $20 because I wanted MU Professor X and he was only showing up in Mexico and Asia. Eventually I found a bunch of them when they were on sale for $6 so basically I was paying to have him six months early. Sometimes we just get impatient. Of course, once stuff stops shipping or is long gone from store shelves it will naturally go up in price.

I couldn't imagine the situation with Black Widow if they didn't have that revision case. Anyone that paid $60+ for her already has that locked in their minds as her value. So if they every sell they will want that much or more. Or if they find one a retail when the revision case hits they will stick on ebay for that price hoping to make up for the first one they bought. It's a cycle and at the end of the day we don't have any production numbers to go off of so a lot of this becomes solely about a rare a figure is thought to be.

03-31-2014, 05:19 PM	#2532
Iceman MUtant Overlord Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tennessee Posts: 2,754	Quote: Originally Posted by ProfessorHov It's those people who pay who are at fault not the sellers if no one paid those prices idiot scalpers wouldn't do what they do. I'm sure most people dont know about revision cases and so on But that's just it. People will always pay, especially early on. People with great jobs and disposable income will gladly pay 2-3 times the price to avoid trying to find something as they have more important things to do. It's not their fault that scalpers set the prices high before a figure even hits the shelf. They bank on people that will pay because it's their favorite character or just to have something before everyone else does. Scalpers pull the prices out of the sky and say "this is what people should have to pay for this figure". It would be one thing if you saw preorders or early stock on ebay with a starting price of retail but that only happens after people are posting it up for buy-it-now at triple that price. It's not a natural increase in prices like you see with a figure like MU Vision or those Deadpool/Warpath sets. If people are patient there is pretty much always a window to buy a retail item at a good price. A lot of people don't care to wait. I paid $20 because I wanted MU Professor X and he was only showing up in Mexico and Asia. Eventually I found a bunch of them when they were on sale for $6 so basically I was paying to have him six months early. Sometimes we just get impatient. Of course, once stuff stops shipping or is long gone from store shelves it will naturally go up in price. I couldn't imagine the situation with Black Widow if they didn't have that revision case. Anyone that paid $60+ for her already has that locked in their minds as her value. So if they every sell they will want that much or more. Or if they find one a retail when the revision case hits they will stick on ebay for that price hoping to make up for the first one they bought. It's a cycle and at the end of the day we don't have any production numbers to go off of so a lot of this becomes solely about a rare a figure is thought to be. __________________ BST