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05-16-2012, 09:13 PM
Bilbo5000
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You're putting words in my mouth. I have never run into a hoarder in the wild or I am sure that I would be as frustrated. The point, at least to me, is the money, that you so are so quick to dimiss. I have a problem with scalpers because, while any adult collector can dish out extorted prices for a rare figure, but parents who are looking for a figure for a child will not pay the inflated prices. Twenty five years ago Storm Shadow was tough to find as a kid for me becasue of his popularity not because of scalpers. I eventually found one. Today, I would have never have gotten one and I would have missed out on a great toy. How many kids will never get a figure today because of these scalpers? What they do is wrong and their motivation is money.
You missed my point...What's the difference if a scalper makes calls to five stores, has the cases held for him, buys them all and sells them...OR One of us, "a collector", goes out, does all of the same things except gets them to his buddies on a board. The money is the only difference...In the end, little Jimmy still doesn't get his Storm Shadow. My isssue is the notion that it's the scalpers fault figures aren't found...It's with the bitching itself...
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