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$5 can't possibly last
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12-15-2009, 09:04 PM
Troynos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Shin-Gouki
If they (Hasbro and or the retailers) want to shoot themselves in the foot they can. They saw how well ROC sold at $8, aside from some interest by collectors that like POC (I am not one of them) sales will be as flat as ROC was at $8 if it goes back to that price point.
RoC sold very well at the start. The issue was that the retailers had just reordered too much of the first waves when the first orders sold out. Joe is a limited market, once the intial buying was done, there really wasn't anymore to be sold of those first couple waves. The retailers overestimated how much RoC would sell. Which isn't the same as RoC selling badly. It sold very well at first but with any limited market once it reaches a point, there are no new sales. Thats why there's a lot of Destros and CCs on the shelves, who needs two of those figures? There's only so many customs that can be made from those parts and new fans only need 1 of each.
The whole point of the drop to 5 was to get rid of that extra stock, but again, there's a reason that the pegs still have alot of Destros and CCs and single characters. Once you have 'em, you don't need more.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
stride23
RoC has no nostalgic value Troynos. Is that nostalgia worth $3 whole dollars to some? Yes. Just like it's worth it to some to go on ebay and buy an incomplete prototype figure for like hundreds of dollars from TaoBoa or whoever that seller is that always has early Hasbro stuff.
Guess so.
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