[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by omega145

It inflates the price artificially and puts items out of reach for collectors who can't afford them. These are items that should be able to be obtained at around retail prices and collectors overpay because they NEED THEM RIGHT NOW as opposed to waiting on a preorder to come through. Most people will find what they need if they are patient enough but the NEED IT RIGHT NOW mentality raises causes so many people to overpay.

I'd really like to pickup the Storm/TBird set but i'm not going to rush to pay double what the preorder is for. I'll wait until I come across them in store, online at a fair price or those just will be pieces I don't pickup.

At the end of the day, rising prices only helps flippers and forces collectors to overpay. A majority of these are not actually collectibles with sustained value so why overspend unnecessarily?

I certainly wish you (and all others) good luck in September in securing a set. For me, it's not about wanting it "right now" it's about wanting it at all. I have high anxiety over many things, and it was 100% worth spending the extra to settle that anxiety of not knowing if I would be able to get it in September or not.

Like everything else, these will go in a box for now. I don't have room to display and I don't get any excitement about getting this before other people. But I would be crushed if I'd waiting until September and not gotten a set; in addition to the anxiety of worrying about it for the next month to month and a half.

I'm sorry if this practice ends up raising the rate. But I'm not sorry for settling my screwed up biological system.