Re: Anyone shop at ToysToysToys?
Late to the party, but torn on the issue...
On one hand, Toys3 did indeed stock shit that NOBODY else ever did, but the prices were almost always obscene.
Especially when they'd have nonsense on their pegs that nobody wanted and had just left the shelves of Winners at like $3.00 a piece, but they were demanding that much again on top of the original retail price - crazy.
Then again, there were exceptions to that particular degree of greed from time to time... like for instance, they stocked SDCC exclusive Star Wars Visionaries Boxed sets featuring Owen Lars and Cyborg Darth Maul for crazy cheap.
They were also the only place in town for Dagger Squadron (KMart Exclusives) B-Wings for a long time, and their prices on those were hardly their usual highway robbery either...
The sad fact is that a lot of their stuff worked out to be the price of an item plus the shipping that it would have cost you online.
And this was all against the backdrop of their general business model, which was to charge you $13 for the undesirable henchmen action figures from the movie tie-in line of the failed summer blockbuster that flopped and you never cared to see...
I won't miss them
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I flip toys and occasionally buy doubles of chase figs when I track them down, but I always set fair prices for the good of the hobby - I'm not a fucking mercenary.
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