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09-28-2020, 11:04 AM
wmichben
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We don't actually know if they're manufacturing to meet demand or not. "Meeting demand" does NOT equal "I can find these on the pegs at any time" or "I never have to buy from a reseller."
Meeting demand means they produced enough that everyone that wants one can get one. The issue here is that there's a "middleman" in the reseller market that buys them at retail and marks them up for resale. You have to include all of those available on EBay or wherever when you're calculating whether enough product was made to meet demand. Whether you're willing to pay the reseller markup or not is irrelevant to that calculation. If say, 100K people want the Baroness w/ COIL and 100K were manufactured, demand was met regardless of whether resellers snapped up 95K of them or not.
Because otherwise you're saying Hasbro should produce enough that resellers get tapped out buying them all up and then there's still plenty left over on shelves. Which basically means pegwarmers, and would kill the line with a quickness when the resellers returned all the ones they snapped up.
Okay, let me clarify. I think it should be possible for fans to get retail figures at retail prices. If that isn't possible and fans are having to resort to paying 3-4x the retail price on EBay, then they aren't meeting demand in a reasonable manner.
And I think it is funny that people think having toys actually making it to the pegs is going to kill the line. That is laughable. I get that no store wants to be stuck with a ton of leftover stock that has to go to clearance but having toys on the shelves (or products of any kind) is crucial to the survival of any product. Beer companies compete for shelf space. Somehow GI JOE fans think that having figures on the pegs means death for the brand.
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