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Why This Ghost Rider HasLab Is Trash
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09-22-2022, 11:19 AM
YouNotCookin
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The first reason Hasbro shouldn't charge the same price is they aren't offering a comparable product.
We were discussing Joe o-rings vs. Operation:Recall, etc., so yes, totally comparable product.
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The second reason is, despite people suggesting otherwise, consumers and producers do have a symbiotic relationship, and that relationship is built on some type of trust. When that trust is healthy, we tend to lend leeway to Hasbro when they raise prices by a dollar.
Conversely, when that trust is sick, and they produce sub-par products at ever increasing prices, we are less inclined to accept price increases.
I get that we collectors are a passionate bunch, but I hear emotional arguments like this being made all the time. Prices will continue to rise as long as demand remains constant or growing. Period. Trust has nothing to do with it. Theoretically, there is a point where the price rises so high it begins to kill demand, at which point, prices will come down. These items are either have sufficient perceived value, or they don't. But as long as collectors keep buying them, don't expect prices to come down.
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Hasbro's Factory and retail space access means they can move more units and thusly, can make more money, even at a lower cost.
They will only make more if more demand is there, which is questionable in the case of the o-rings. And they don't control the retail space, the retailers do. They only get to put the specific products the retailers want from them in stores. Just because Classified gets a couple of pegs doesn't mean they can sneak in o-rings or vehicles, so I'm not sure what you mean by "retail space access".
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I don't know when that was no longer an incentive for Hasbro, and the new method is to take as much money up front. Obviously, not only has the popularity of action figures dwindled, but retail has changed significantly, as well, and I accept all of that.
I think your second statement partially answers your first. The kids of today seem a lot more fickle than we were at that age. I don't think Hasbro can bank on brand loyalty long-term the way they might have once.
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So, if you want me to pay what you're asking, you need to fucking deliver. Sorry, charging me three dollars more for TVC and pumping out slightly paint altered repack after repack is not building healthy trust. All the lies and moving goal posts Hasbro has lobbied over the last decade have not built a healthy trust.
100% in agreement here. Not sure what "lies and moving goal posts" refers to, but again, trust has nothing to do with it. Either the figures are worth the money or they aren't. Buy 'em or don't. Hasbro doesn't care about our feelings/trust. The only thing they respond to is money. If we really want things to get better, enough of us have to collectively stop buying substandard product. But that's always been a tough proposition.
So, yeah, asking $350 for a fucking 1:12 car is a bit fucking insane.[/QUOTE]
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