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Re: Marvel Legends discussion
There are usually several sellers offering the same item. The displayed price is almost always the lowest price being offered. Usually that is Walmart's own price, which says "sold and shipped by Walmart."
But once Walmart's supply sells out, which it will do quickly with a big sale, then the next lowest price shows up. In this case it's CMD who are selling it at their price of $75 plus $11 dollars markup that Walmart takes as a cut.
You can actually think of Walmart as the scalper, because they are essentially buying it from CMD at $75, and selling it to you at $86. (That's not technically what's going on, but it is effectively.)
Other times, when Walmart sells out, it just says "Price unavailable" because there are no other sellers. I think that's a poor implementation, but whatever.
The same happens on Amazon, but it's even worse, since Amazon will hike up their own prices based on whatever their crazy algorithm feels like doing. And the scalpers on Amazon are true scalpers, often buying up Amazon's own exclusives, and immediately listing them back on Amazon.
Most of the time the product doesn't even leave Amazon's warehouse, since the scalper uses that same address. And Amazon doesn't care, because they sell their own stock out, and then get another bite when the scalper sells the same product they just sold to him. It's fucked.
Last edited by philtastic; 07-10-2021 at 09:28 PM.
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Re: Marvel Legends discussion
