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Originally Posted by Nimrod

While some of you may not collect these for investment purposes, some people do. I don't begrudge them for that nor will I call them names. I'm not talking about someone that bought a retro Black costume Spidey yesterday for $22.99 and is now selling it for $45, that to me is wrong and scalping, I'm talking about someone who has VHTF TB/Hasbro figs that have gone up in value & now they lose value cuz Hasbro re-releases them yrs later or gives them a spiffier paint job. We all collect these figures for a variety of reasons. With a 5.6% inflation hike in the past yr plus a gallon of gas going for $4 avg, some people may have to be selling off their TB/Hasbro ML collections to make ends meet and the value of certain HTF figs that they may have going down cuz Hasbro is doing a re-do of that certain figure will hurt them financially when it comes to selling it for top $.

I love reissues. Most of the time there some very nice improvements made. Take the recent Spiderman: Homecoming Vulture. I didn't want to buy the BAF. I knew more than likely it would see a reissue. It did. And it's better.

IF I choose to hold onto a figure so it can appreciate in value to flip it's always short term. Yes. I'll scalp it. Free market. Don't want it? Don't buy it. There in IS the risk. You have to know when to sell. At this point in the hobby if collectors are holding onto figures (Hasbro especially) and are not expecting a reissue they just aren't paying attention. Seriously? Who DOESN'T expect a reissue nowdays?