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Originally Posted by Napseeker
Then people should just skip buying Hasbro's rubbish. I almost can't believe the number of Marvel Legends and SW "deluxes" and two-packs that I've not bothered to pre-order lately solely due to either it being closed-box or some insane pricepoint.
Yet, it's getting easier and easier just to say no thanks... because that's what Hasbro has trained me to do now: be very, very discriminating when it comes to their overpriced plastic.
The question people should ask themselves these days is: How can I punish Hasbro today, for their incessant greed?
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Aside from the hyperbole, what you are doing is about all you can do to show your displeasure at Hasbro.
The reality is that public corporations are beholden to shareholders, and their fiduciary responsibility lies there first and foremost. The machine is built to expect ever increasing profits/margins and ever increasing returns on shares. That isn't going to stop.
The quick change in packaging is a result of what you are suggesting.....people spoke with their dollars. However those instances are few and far between. I mean, when was the last time Hasbro, Mattel, or any major corporation dropped their prices? Probably ones-&-twos of times in the past 20 years. The expectations is always more, and more.
I have gone in the same direction as you with preorders. The latest wave was the last preorders I did, that weren't exclusives (thank you Hasbro Pulse
). I haven't preordered anything else, and even now I think I might cancel my Joe preorders on Pulse since they haven't sold out. It is just my stupid FOMO holding on for no good reason.
As for punishing Hasbro, they aren't listening, or going to get the message. They'll just take a short term "L" like with the packaging fiasco, and move on. Hell look at what is going on with WOTC their MTG line. It seems like every other month there is another self inflicted wound, but they keep on keepin' on?!
As others have pointed out many a time, the reality is that we can only speak with our dollars but, unfortunately, that usually results in the wrong message. More often than not they see it as time to end the line, or put it on hiatus, and not course correct. Then we get their attention, but it's is usually the wrong kind of attention and results in the wrong message being received by them.
Either way I agree that pricing is getting ridiculous, but I don't know that they'll ever change.
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobra!
