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Gotta love Scalpers
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02-26-2008, 04:51 PM
facehammer
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The whole scalping thing won't go away for awhile I'm afraid. It took quite a while after the Star Wars relaunch before it ebbed. What it seems to take to curb this is to have a sought after figure (say Flint for example) and after a few months of complaining to Hasbro about poor distribution, they flood the market with full cases of Flint. Now all there is is Flint. Then you end up with a once sought after figure as a peg warmer. This has happened a few times with Star Wars. (the first release 'monkey' Leia, Lando, Stormtroopers, Obi-Wan, Slave Leia and the first Darth Maul all come to mind)
It sucks when this happens but it also seems to thin out the herd. There are those guys (and gals... saw a very mom looking lady hoarding Darth Maul) that just try to find the 'hot' figure to turn a profit.
I would say this happens on a small, but constant scale with action figures. And then there are those things that it just seems to keep going with... Nintendo Wii for example. I have seen exactly 2 in a store. Do a quick ebay search and see how many there are. Scalping occurs until no one is willing to pay or until the market gets flooded. I say flooded, because once something gets on the scalper radar, any attempt to supply stores with a 'normal' supply turns into a shortage. It is only until it goes overboard do the vermin go back to their Mom's basement.
Stay ahead of 'em
Jeff
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