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Originally Posted by User897

LOL. Anyone else wanna pick caitlindevi's post apart? Frankly I am too tired.

Blaming fussy collectors could be construed as lazy and irresponsible, like blame projection and rationalization. If there is a market for some product or service, and it's done well, that market will respond. If there is a strong market, it will respond with alacrity and determination and lots of money.

That said, speaking only for myself, Caitlin describes me to a 'T.' I'm discriminating. I have a list in my mind of exactly which characters or ships or other things from which franchises I would be willing to buy, in which format, and to what standard of quality, and for roughly how much money. I have to be this way, because my funds are not infinite, and I experience strong buyer's regret every time a piece in my collection doesn't satisfy me and ends up on EBay or donated to the Goodwill. I want to buy 'keepers.' My days of frivolous and stupid collecting and purging are over.

Side note: I regard Black Series as exhausted. You know the product is in the latest stage of its life cycle when they start releasing characters who were never anything more than background extras, or they invent new names for figures that boil down to repaints, or just re-re-re-releases. There's a sense of desperation -- and yet, they wouldn't approve the production decisions unless SOMEbody was still buying, would they? How many Black Series collectors are completists?

...I want that Kirk figure.