[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Lody666

I'm in Houston gentleman and I stand by my statements
Nothing Star Wars is being scalped nor is anything difficult to find with even a modicum of effort

Houston is the 4th largest city in America, it's a mega-center of the country, so the experience in Houston is vastly different than the experience in San Antonio even. I've been at this hobby for years and speaking from experience, as always living in the area I do, it's a dry market here. I've talked to the managers and distributors (the guys from Hasbro who go store to store doing check ups or whatever it is they do) and they all give it to me that the area I live in is considered low on their priority shipping centers which is why pretty much every store here only gets one or two cases of any wave/series. Houston is up their with Chicago in population so I'd guess they consider it much more of a priority and send more there.

This used to never be a problem for Star Wars here, it wasn't until they started the 6" line that suddenly finding things became much more of a long hunt. As soon as the Black Series emerged as the "collector" figures for Star Wars it created a market where the first people at the store could buy an entire case easily which left nothing for the rest of us. I went to the flea-market not long after the 6" line kicked off and sellers would have tons of the 3.75" figures for low prices (even some rarer ones like the gold coin variant 30th ann. figures) but any one of the 6" figures would be marked up from retail (even the common figures like Leia and Greedo). It's gonna be different for everybody based on where they live, some have zero troubles whatsoever while others wait months to find the same things.