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Originally Posted by Specter

Noob question for you guys, only encountered this recently with MU and especially Star Wars on Ebay.

How are there Asian sellers that have hundreds to a thousand loose figures at decent prices and then have hundreds of each?
Even pretty hard to come by figures at way better prices than elsewhere.

Figured bootlegs but the quality is pretty good on the ones I have gotten so far and indistinguishable from others(mostly SW at this point).

Recently got a Han Solo(who was a harder figure to get) that typically went for $20+ loose for $11 shipped and the guy had already apparently sold 500+ I think.

My general understanding has been that these figures are basically extra runs and QC fails direct from the factory that are sold off in open market auctions by the crate, purchased, and and put up by private sellers on Ebay and the like. look up the term "grey market" for more insight into the legality of the situation. given the way Chinese commerce works these figures are most likely sold as scrap plastic, with some savvy sellers realizing that certain figures are worth more in there current form on the American market, so they simply resell them.