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02-24-2009, 02:46 AM | #71 |
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The world economy is on it's way to a massive crash in the next week or two.
Watch what happens to Citi tomorrow, and start loading your apple carts from there. |
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02-25-2009, 03:03 AM | #72 |
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the outlook is bleak for sure.
cutting back is ideal but, getting into a whole other line is not so good. Tried to hold back but oh well.
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02-25-2009, 03:08 AM | #73 |
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Actually it has been my plan all along to destroy the global economy and force all collectors to sell me their Joes cheap. It's always fun to watch a plan come together. Muwahahaha!
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02-25-2009, 03:29 AM | #74 |
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Dude, what's sup with the Marvel figs 4". They are $8.44 at Walmart. They are more than Joes, comes with no accessaries and appear to have less articulation. What gives?
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02-25-2009, 04:29 PM | #75 |
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I've said this before, but I think retailers are playing games with price points. It's all greed. How much will crazed kids parents and collectors actually pay? That is the question they are trying to find out. $4.99, 5.99, 6.99, 7.99, 8.44? Hey let's try 9.99 for repacks and label them hall of heroes? How high will the ceiling actually go? If it is up to retailers as high as possible. Look at BBTS they are charging 11.99 for the same figure you can get at Toys R us for 7.99 and they are selling out. WM is charging 8.44 and selling out. CVS will charge 14.99. Why because people are buying them at those prices. When sales decline prices will rollback.
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02-25-2009, 04:37 PM | #76 |
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the price of the friggin Yellow Stalker is what's keeping me from completing my collection.
the one obstacle that's cramping my style. it'll happen... that fig will soon be MINE! LOL. but i won't pay 200+ for it. hell to the nope. |
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02-25-2009, 04:52 PM | #77 |
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$7.99 for the Marvel figs is too much for me. I picked up a couple, but I doubt I'll be a completionist like the Joes.
Target & TRU here still have Joes for $6.99 (which is still too much if you ask me...)
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02-25-2009, 06:14 PM | #78 |
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Its drastically altered my collection of vehicles. For now I'm only collecting 1:18 action figures. So far I've stayed away from ebay auctions. I don't know how long the hobby shop in my neighborhood can stay open given the fact that he doesnt have many customers. For now he's been my top supplier, until he closes down. I'm hoping he doesn't.
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02-26-2009, 03:12 AM | #79 |
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the prices have certainly kept me from being the "completist" that i use to be in my younger years.....needing every variant and repaint of every figure with warning decals or whatnot.
now, i'm just trying to get the core collection of my favorite old-school figures that i own. of course all of that has now ended with the hiatus....with that said, i'm not interested in some obscure variant of scarlett in paratrooper garb or matt tracker or double agent flint (which is ALL that seems to be warming pegs where i live alongside with buzzer). unfortunately, 8 of the figures i was looking forward to are being placed in the 7 packs that are coming out soon......and i'm guessing they will retail around $50 US, so i'll have to pass on them (the same reason i passed on the FIRST release of 25th ann battle packs.....i couldn't afford to drop that much at one time on the off chance that i actually saw them in a store). sure, i could save my pennies and get the sets....but i can't hang them on my f**king wall with the rest of my collection. i already grit my teeth at buying CPs, but at least they fit in their own little corner of my room.....and on the random chance that CP figs are single carded...they are stupid repaints.... the $40+ "battle packs" just make me feel like Hasbro is raping the collectors' market. they know how bad we want mindbender and chuckles, or whoever......so, they think we'll just bend over and spread our cheeks for a bundle of figures. so they can get back to shipping repaints of tiger/viper/cougar/laser/ultra/battle force figures. *sigh*
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02-26-2009, 11:50 PM | #80 |
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OK the prices have finally broke me down. I have the money, but I think the prices are ridiculously out of control. I have pretty much stopped buying SW all together. Very selective with Joes buying one to two figures per wave. Also, skipping Marvel and Wolverine figures that I would have bought at lower prices. And I am picking only one or two re-buys of figures I love. I've been living this way for the last 3 months or so. Two years ago at 4.99 per figure for Joes and 5.44 for SW I was buying most figures and tons of re-buys for customs.
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