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08-08-2022, 05:44 AM
Bujo
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BAF is a scam. They force you to buy figures you otherwise wouldn't just to complete the BAF. They have tricked you into believing it's a great deal but in reality they get to move figure repaints that would otherwise get unsold. Plus, they already tried this before with the droid baf parts years ago.
It would only be a scam if the business practice was dishonest about what the buyer was getting. For example, if the packaging showed buying the whole wave completed the BAF, but in reality you wound up with six right legs that would be a scam or fraudulent. Nobody is forced to buy anything this is why so many cherry pickers dump their extra BAF parts onto eBay. You not liking the marketing strategy hardly qualifies it as a scam.
The customer isn't so easily duped into thinking the BAF parts are a cost free addition. Each person can decide for themselves if the BAF is worth picking up the whole wave or not. Sometimes it's cheaper to buy the whole wave. I've seen ML BAFs sell for $150 on ebay when the whole wave might cost $120. The only "trick" might be when a character is released as both a BAF and as a single carded figure like ML King Pin and DC King Shark were. Fortunately they at least had different paint schemes to differentiate the releases.
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