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Originally Posted by JerpJerp

Doh! I was hoping that wouldn’t be the case. It’s weird that they’d be preorders and not just sold to sellers like restocking something from leftover pallets. . Aren't pre-orders a sign something is going to get manufactured?

Not always. Sometimes a maker finds a large amount of figures, or they are forced to buy back stock from a distributor or large retailer, and they need to resell it. Stores say, "I'll take some" and they get some of what's left. In these cases, the retailers often oversell stock, and whatever doesn't get fulfilled gets refunded or credited. They do preorders in this case to see what the demand is and to make sure the stock actually sells out, rather than risk getting it back again.

Other times vendors are just testing the waters, and cancel based on that demand. On very rare cases, it's just a store's wish for someone to make more, and they open preorders in an attempt to get a vendor to reissue stock.

In my many decades in and around the toy industry, I've seen all the three.