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GI Joe Club 2018 Final Twelve, Zartan and Female Troopers Product Discussion
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11-18-2018, 04:05 PM
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I'm not disagreeing on all of the above, but those were all priced in already for past production. The excuse of a 34% increase to the cost of the female 3-pack (which is probably the largest increase they have available to point to since it's the only one they mention) would mean a 34% increase to that one single input cost (figure production), not to their licensing fees, their staffing costs (which, assuming they ordered a smaller run as they claim to have done, they should be cutting back on staff at this point), or to their taxes. None of those have increased commensurate with the factory jiggering with the per-unit price of the figures. Overall, we're talking about at best 34% of a relatively small dollar amount in their cost matrix.
The only other excuse so far offered is an increase in the cost to ship the product over from China. So unless freight costs have gone up by tens of dollars
per figure
, they are going to have a very hard time explaining this pricing jump without admitting to increasing the "profit" figure pretty significantly. Not that they don't have the right or incentive to do so...they absolutely do. But it's dishonest of them to point to moderate input cost increases to a relatively small input cost item as the main driver of the price increase. It just isn't true. I don't see anyone saying the figures should be $10 each, just that they're pretty obviously gouging on their way out and they're lying about it.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Club a home-based business? And I say that because when I looked up their address it's a decent looking house. So it's not like they have a loan to pay off for a building or additional retail space and taxes to pay on.
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