[Poison Shadow]

Assuming I have any luck finding him, I'll try to help people out when I can. I was able to locate a TON of the Walgreens Walking Dead Ricks for friends and family, and I suspect that would have also been true for the Assassin's Creed exclusive if I had any reason to look.

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Originally Posted by Catatronic

Jesus Christ! These are $7.99 figures being jacked up towards the $30 mark & people have absolutely no problem paying that. WTF is wrong with everybody? Is everybody filthy rich except me? Is there any point where you draw the line & say "NO! That's ridiculous! I'm not paying that much!"???

Ya know? I wouldn't believe this absolute 100% INSANITY if I wasn't seeing it happen right in front of me. No, actually I'm still questioning reality, I think I'm plugged into some really fucked up experiment in some lab somewhere. This shit just can't be real. $20 for a crappy little 5" action figure & it isn't even a Japanese import? No way! Can't be real. Somebody is playing a joke on me & I'm gonna kick their ass when I find out who it is.

I picked up the Beetle from the Spider Man line & I thought it was $14.99 (which is way too high). I was furious when it rang up $19.99. I love that figure but I swore I would never buy another Marvel legends after that. $19.99? FUCK THAT SHIT!!!! Cheap ass soft bendy crappy material that easily warps. These things aren't even made out of real plastic. I have a couple Iron Man figures with bent warped legs that I can't straighten out no matter what I try. Hair dryer & boiling water don't work, it slowly goes back to the warped position over time. No way I'll pay the stupid prices they're charging. I can only hope you other guys eventually wake up & snap out of this insanity. There's a difference between "inflation" & "gouging".

Uh, wow. Calm down. You don't need to buy toys if you can't afford them.

And everybody getting together and boycotting a line doesn't work. Look at what Mattel did with their DC stuff: they can't sell it in store anymore because sales were bad and retailers stopped buying, so they took it straight to their website, started charging $30 + shipping with the added excuse that smaller production runs means higher cost, and they show absolutely no signs of altering that strategy. Meanwhile those products are simple repaints with new packaging.

Buy what you're willing to buy, and let others do the same. We'll always be screwed no matter what anyway.