[behindthemask]

Honestly we can blame Hasbro's team for shortpacked figures, and the cost of figures being what they are partially driving collectors and scalpers to insane levels of collecting. In Canada for a ML figure I'm paying $21.99 at Walmart, $26.99 at TRU, and $22.99 at Target, plus 15% tax, shit isn't cheap. That's why anytime I happen to see stuff on clearance I buy them all or as much as I can afford. I got like 2-3 ML IM3 Ultrons for like $7 each at retail, not gonna resell them but if I wanted to down the road I could. I also went into TRU and bought 2 Aim and 2 hydra the day they opened a case. Does that make me a greedy scalper? or a dedicated collector,... still cost me like $100 for 4 figures.... I was lucky to find a Mcfarlane spidey for cheap, and if I needed to I'd be reselling him for $100+ easy loose, and wouldn't feel bad about it. Past couple weekends I've bought a few small collections off a local guy, and he knows what he paid for them retail, I know what he paid for them retail, but for some reason he is reselling the stuff for like 1/4 or less of the price,... is it my place to overpay? I personally live paycheck to paycheck so for that $40-100 I get to spend on a paycheck after bills is taken care of is going towards items I want at a price I can afford, it may take me a lot of hunting online, and locally but things come up when you least expect it.