[Captain Nash]

It's a mix here. There are several comic book shops that have made scalping (or at least overpricing) their specialty. I've learned to just not bothering with them, which is probably for the best because they are full of unwashed adults and kids who haven't learned about deodorant yet. And except for one shop they are selling at ridiculous amounts, and not a whole lot of it either, so at that point I assume it's mostly distribution and then a little scalping.

But we had one in particular that is not in business any longer, that was known for it, this was back in the late 90's and early 00s. You'd see the employees out while doing your own toy run (for just your stuff, maybe for a friend), and they'd have like a cart full of the figures. Same figures, one of each, I don't think it mattered. During one of the Star Wars figure releases two of them showed up and barged through with their carts, and pretty much just grabbed everything and threw it in their cart..then within minutes were trying to turn around and sell it to us..they actually got banned from the store because they hadn't even paid for it yet. I'm actually glad that store isn't around anymore.

Anyways...I digress but yeah...scalpers are scum.