 |
|
02-20-2021, 12:50 PM
|
#3321
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Quote:
Originally Posted by philtastic
At this point it'd be stupid to sell them at retail, and let a scalper make the profit, but I still hate when legit shops sell at "market" prices.
Another online/local shop had a figure I was keeping an eye on, but raised their price 50% when they were down to their last one. They forgot to raise the price on their Ebay listing, though, so I picked it up there, instead. Still at a slightly inflated price, but okay, it's an older, out of print figure. But did it give me a bit of pleasure to stick it to them if even just a little? I'd be lying if I said no.
And it's definitely not the first time an online/local shop has raised their prices significantly when down to their last few units of a figure. Many of the better-known collectibles shops even charge more for short-packed figures straight out of the pack. And that's over and above their already inflated base "retail" prices.
And, look, I get it. Retail is tough, there's a lot of competition, and owning an independent business is even harder, but man do they make it hard to sympathize with them when they're scanning Ebay for price hikes as much as the scalpers are. And of course, they buy Amazon and Walmart exclusives and sell them for double on their sites, too, so really, they are scalpers, after all.
Okay, rant over.
|
Places like Toy Snow Man and NMC are still pretty fair with prices despite that. There are definitely sites that are worse. I mean I can kind of understand why they resell the store exclusive higher since they are paying retail for it unlike regular retail figures so they gotta make some profit. Though I'd just prefer them not to bother reselling exclusives.
|
|
|
|
02-20-2021, 01:06 PM
|
#3322
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Quote:
Originally Posted by canprime
Considering Amazon fluctuates their prices up, and down, based on their "analytics and algorithms", Uber has "surge" pricing, and any other number of big retail (Loblaws price fixing bread) pulling shenanigans with pricing I really am not surprised anymore. Hell auctions do "reserve" pricing, which is just another way of saying "I want this fairly high price, but I don't want to look like I do".
Small retailers have been doing this for years with figures/collectibles. I actually understand that more for them since they get small amounts comparatively. So sell the desired figures for a couple bucks more and hope to move the stinkers eventually.
As for $200 for Cara Dune? Well scalping through "retail" is still scalping, but i get why the price hike. Wouldn't buy from them though.
|
Amazon is one of the worst! If they don't hike their own price, based their algorithm, they'll sell it to someone else to do it for them, and then they get another cut! But first they'll cancel the order you managed to snag at regular price…
|
|
|
|
|
02-21-2021, 08:57 PM
|
#3324
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret_Master
|
Just got her shipped by redshift today, can’t wait to get it.
|
|
|
|
|
02-21-2021, 09:01 PM
|
#3325
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Listed for June on Amazon? Yikes.
I expect it to show up at Canadian retailers long before.
|
|
|
|
|
02-27-2021, 04:19 PM
|
#3328
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nixle
Just got Bo Katan amazing fig
|
Where'd you get it?
|
|
|
|
|
02-27-2021, 04:29 PM
|
#3329
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Online on redshift7.ca
|
|
|
|
|
02-27-2021, 04:30 PM
|
#3330
|
|
|
Re: Star Wars Black Series discussion
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nixle
Online on redshift7.ca
|
Thanks! Didn't expect him to get it so fast.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
