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12-19-2009, 12:50 PM | #151 |
GIJoe Special Ops
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TIGER RATS!! I still need one of those. Send one my way, H-man.
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12-19-2009, 03:20 PM | #152 |
Spartan F5 Viper
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It costs a Chinese factory $0.34 for the card+package, $0.45 for the plastic and $0.50 for paint per figure (since they are dealing in a massive amount of bulk and overseas)...so your figure costs to break even about $1.29 per figure. Hasbro then marks it up to sell it to retailers for $4-$5 each and then retailers pass it on as much as they feel someone will pay for it like $8-$9 a figure. That makes absolute sense to me since its a process to make money the the percentages here are in line. Hasbro sells a huge amount of figures to the retailers (especially with thier initial ROC purchase in bulk so the cost is lower per figure) and the retailers wanted to get every penny you had since consumers loved ROC soooo much....to bad it didn't last for em...now they are selling em for justa $1 above the cost, if that, it took to purchase them from the manufactuer Hasbro to recoup that loss for the product before clearence prices start to set in due to profit erosion of old product as time passes.
Either way it is still the retailer's fault for not enforcing a "no receipt, no return policy". How hard is it to keep a damn receipt for 30 days.... seriously? If you loose it too freaking bad no returns, quit helping people if you don't want people to defarud you with unethical and immoral actions O M G...thats pretty silly, kinda akin to leaving a bank vault door open with a million dollars in there and no guards and saying to your self "oh no one will steal this everyone has such a high moral standards!" |
12-19-2009, 03:23 PM | #153 |
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Uhm you are missing shipping costs from China to the US and then from the factory to locations. You are missing the costs it takes to make these figures as in paychecks for the workers and supervisors. Or the designer who came up with the color scheme, name, etc of the figure. You seem to be missing a lot of cost factors there buddy!
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12-19-2009, 03:36 PM | #154 |
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Uhm you are missing shipping costs from China to the US and then from the factory to locations. You are missing the costs it takes to make these figures as in paychecks for the workers and supervisors. Or the designer who came up with the color scheme, name, etc of the figure. You seem to be missing a lot of cost factors there buddy!
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12-19-2009, 03:52 PM | #155 |
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I live in Cincinnati Ohio, and the target here is bad. Someone has returned ARAH figures theres and they put them on the hooks with the movie figures! These things were at KB last year before they closed them all. And the cards look faded like they were displayed near the sunlight.
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12-19-2009, 04:03 PM | #156 |
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I live in Cincinnati Ohio, and the target here is bad. Someone has returned ARAH figures theres and they put them on the hooks with the movie figures! These things were at KB last year before they closed them all. And the cards look faded like they were displayed near the sunlight.
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12-19-2009, 07:42 PM | #157 |
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Yup its the logic being tossed around that these figures cost $4+ at a minimum to the retailer. By your statement here the figures would need to be 8-9 from hasbro then 15-20 at retail. That simply is not the case. So your added expenses are in that $4-$5 they charge retailers for them or Hasbro would not be making any profits correct?
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12-19-2009, 07:48 PM | #158 |
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Walmart and Target only pay 2.20 per figure.
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12-19-2009, 08:58 PM | #159 |
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12-21-2009, 01:45 PM | #160 |
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indeed brother, i sound like i am full of crap all the time, but i have been known to make sense every now and then. ha ha aha h. i am actualy talking about the usual markup for small time stores, without the direct link to china and all that. As for r and d and all that goes into making a toy, that is a projected cost over time. and should not be an "all eggs in one basket" thing. the prices are very dynamic in all markets right now, supply and demand is not longer ruling the day like it used to. speculation and fear are corrupting the markets far too much, time for a hard pill. COBRA!
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