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07-03-2008, 08:37 AM | #101 |
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If true, then the prices have finally gone beyond what I am willing to pay at retail. The figures simply aren't worth $8 each for me. Screw you Hasbro, Target, Chinese sweatshops, OPEC, plastic manufacturer, paint manufacturer, the President and Congress, the gods, etc.
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07-03-2008, 08:39 AM | #102 |
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Wow thats amazing. I wonder why you can get Ironman figs. for just a couple of dollars more. When they have more quite a bit more plastic.
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07-03-2008, 09:10 AM | #103 |
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I was talking with a friend of mine last night and he put this crap into perspective.
The G.I. Joe single figures sell like crazy. With costs going up they'll mark up the items that sell more and leave the others be since they don't sell that well anyway. |
07-03-2008, 09:12 AM | #104 |
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07-03-2008, 09:16 AM | #105 |
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The reason for the price increase is that Hasbro and the retail chains know that these products are moving and that we'll pay for them no matter what the price. Look at the comic packs: They have been warming the pegs in one wave or another since they debuted and their price has not budged an inch overall. Then you have other items like the Lego toys on the next aisle over that are perpetual shelf warmers: They never go up in price.
Nope, folks, this is a minor conspiracy against our lot of collectors. We'll pay the price so they'll keep raising the price. When will it end? To bend a phrase from Karl Marx: "Working collectors of the world, unite!" We need to stop buying our Joes from retail outlets like Wal*Mart and Target 'cause the price will never go back to $4.88 or $5.99. I for one am not going to pay $8 for a single carded G.I. Joe figure. I like the new line of figures but this ridiculous price hike (no matter what the feeble rationale or attempt at justification may be) is my cue to exit quietly to stage left...
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07-03-2008, 09:41 AM | #106 |
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Working collectors of the world, unite!
To borrow from Karl Marx I think that we should send a message to the retail chains and let these newly more expensive figures peg warm like the comic packs. Resist the temptation to buy them no matter what the price may be and maybe we'll see the price drop back down to a more reasonable amount. Let's flex our purchasing power in a converse manner and see what happens at the big retail chains with the G.I. Joe figures...
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07-03-2008, 09:45 AM | #107 |
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TRU and Zellers up here in Canada already have prices of $10 :(
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07-03-2008, 09:56 AM | #108 |
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wow, more more price hikes, it's like gas (kind of)
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07-03-2008, 10:09 AM | #109 |
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this sucks!!!!!!!!!.
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07-03-2008, 10:16 AM | #110 |
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