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Originally Posted by sixshot1981
My question is aside from real or ko...
Why would Hasbro if the locker box was misspelled would dump everything else instead of just printing the correct boxes and then fixing everything from there.
The misspelling seems off, but why as someone suggested that Hasbro would dump their entire inventory for something easily reprinted would be a strange business practice
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I would guess the cost associated. Let's say 2000 units came out with a mislabel. Now you need to calculate the cost of printing a small batch of both the lockers and outer packaging, assuming they don't have extra packaging that can be used but it seems unlikely to have much if this is a limited run exclusive.
Then the man hours/cost of opening each one and removing the accessories and figure. If any accessory pack or figure packaging tray is torn/damaged along the way then that's tossed in the trash along with a figure otherwise you need to replace those as well.
I'm unsure how much automation there is vs man power in the packaging of these figures but now you have 2000 figures and accessory packs that need to be packaged again and sealed. If by people then that's a long time. If by machine then it will take a long time just to manually load these figures at the point that it needs to be along the automated process of the assembly line.
I could be wrong in details as I am not there looking at things but what I do know is that if you have sealed product that needs to be opened and re-packaged/sealed then you are looking at time and money being spent that was not part of the original budget.
And once that is all done you now have to ship these out to Amazon US as a small batch to sell which adds more cost to the whole process.
Decent chance the re-packaging would remove the profit margin on such a batch which in turn would call for disposal as the cheaper option.
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