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Originally Posted by cloud
You can't really say companies are scalper because they do not buy and hoard a product for resell.
They may have jacked up the price or mark up the price. That's possible and within their business practice.
I am not sure why Pudgy Pig is expensive. Probably have to do with a bigger size figure with more plastic, bigger mold. You can say the lunch box is worth 10 bucks. I don't collect lunch boxes but it looks kind of neat. Will probably be good storage for the spare parts with the Lightning Collection figures.
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I havent looked at all the figures and compared all the prices. But Pig does seem to be specifically more expensive. For instance he is
57.99 USD on pulse where as Ravage is
52.99 USD. And on Gamestop pig is
86.99 CAD which is a
1.5x conversion rate vs charging only
72.99 CAD for Ravage which is a
1.38x conversion rate. The latter being much closer to the actual current USDxCAD conversion rate which is somewhere hovering around
1.28x.
Why they have a higher markup on pudgy pig... who knows. But it is what it is. If they have too much stock and they cant sell it at that price it will eventually go on sale. If it goes down to below $40 I might pick it up.
Also, knowing hasbro... they will release it without the lunch box packaging and probably with some other accessory or something... probably at a cheaper price... just because. So people could also hold out hope for something like that if the current price is too much. They tend not to use moulds only once.
