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01-25-2013, 07:43 PM | #41 |
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When I was a manager at Blockbuster (17 yrs ago) my bonuses went to the employees. Buy the whole store lunch, give out giftcards, I even took my whole team to Magic Mountain one time. Employees are the ones doing all the work. I'm there to make sure they're doing their jobs . All these corporate big wigs care about is making their wallets fatter. So because they didn't make expectations people have to lose their jobs. Quote:
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It was damn near impossible to find any Hasbro made toys over the last 6+ months. New Star Wars Vintage? Not on store shelves. New Marvel Universe? Never heard of it. Marvel Legends? Weren't those canceled years ago? Transformers? Hope you LOVED the movies. G.I.Joe? We'll wait til the figures are in 3D.
Spider-Man figures were massively over-produced and over priced. Even Avengers figures were rarely restocked for a movie that neared the BILLION dollar mark. Hasbro is getting worse and worse in regards to distribution. They like to continually blame the buyers, but I know there were a lot of us with cash in hand waiting to buy new toys who had to leave empty handed.
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01-25-2013, 08:44 PM | #42 |
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I always read about how CEOs have huge paychecks as it is, and yet they get million dollar bonuses, for what?
When I was a manager at Blockbuster (17 yrs ago) my bonuses went to the employees. Buy the whole store lunch, give out giftcards, I even took my whole team to Magic Mountain one time. Employees are the ones doing all the work. If someone can come in with a business plan and make the company more profitable than it was before, then they deserve a share of the money they brought in. If it wasn't given to them, they'd quit and go work for a company who would pay them for bringing value into the company. It doesn't mean no CEO was ever overpaid and no worker was ever underpaid but we'd need to see the specifics to judge if one was or not. Vague rants about bigwigs and fatcats doesn't count for much. |
01-25-2013, 09:01 PM | #43 |
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The holidays get here and while Hasbro toys are going up in price the hot Teenage Mutant Turtles line is going for $8.88 at Wal-Mart. Not shocking that parents would use their holiday cash on Turtles instead of Transformers.
The movie toy lines mean that we get flooded with some characters so they are the only characters on the shelf. Only so many Iron Man figures a kid will want to buy. The attempt to get into the building block market when Lego is such a dominate company in that toy category. Plus all those experiments to make tiny cute toys out of Star Wars and Transformers. No GI Joe toys because there wasn't a plan for toys when the movie got pushed back, but you'd be hard pressed to find any Hasbro action figures that weren't left over from a movie line. If collectors can't find toys then you know kids aren't finding them either. Honestly between the miss-steps, the over dependance on movies pushing the toys, horrible distribution, price increases in a tough economy, and the decrease in quality sapping the feeling of value it's amazing the numbers weren't even lower. |
01-25-2013, 10:25 PM | #44 |
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There was nothing from Hasbro except Spider Man & the MTT. And Toys R Us got the Millennium Falcon that didn't sell too well. They still have tons of them piled up. The most dead holiday season I've ever seen. So how does Hasbro expect to make any money?
The stores loaded up on Turtles & Dark Knight. So Playmates & Mattel still know how to get their product into the stores. What's Hasbro's problem? They seem to have gone completely retarded in the past year. |
01-25-2013, 11:41 PM | #45 |
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Earnings weren't what they projected huh.
Well no suprise there every company expects more than the should. And thats because every company expects that it will always do better than it did last quarter and thats not always possible. This past quarter was a pretty weak showing action figure wise for Hasbro anyway. Know what the answer is? Make better product. Hey I love Hasbro man I really do but lets face it the last few years Hasbro has been making some pretty bad business choices especially in terms of Joe and TF. No continuity in toy lines, inconsistancy in shipments, character oversaturation. Just a great example. 2009 we got Resolute which was a half hearted attempt to refresh the brand for more core fans. They pushed this, and went half way through with some toys. Only to dump it for... 2009 also saw Rise of Cobra....the choices there from the bad designs to the poor performance and reception which ran into POC which instead of just fixing stuff was again a half hearted effort. 2010 saw Renegades which again started off strong and then was just dropped. 30th started off decent and then there seemed to be that recent famous lack of concentration. |
01-26-2013, 12:03 AM | #46 |
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If it's that easy to make big money doing nothing as a CEO, why don't you start your own company and do it? Starting and running a successful company isn't as easy as you seem to think. Who runs the company matters. Look at how Apple is floundering now that they lost Steve Jobs. McDonald's didn't do better than Arby's because it has better workers necessarily, it was run better as a business across all facets of marketing, production, efficiency, ideas, etc.
If someone can come in with a business plan and make the company more profitable than it was before, then they deserve a share of the money they brought in. If it wasn't given to them, they'd quit and go work for a company who would pay them for bringing value into the company. It doesn't mean no CEO was ever overpaid and no worker was ever underpaid but we'd need to see the specifics to judge if one was or not. Vague rants about bigwigs and fatcats doesn't count for much.
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01-26-2013, 05:37 AM | #47 |
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So who's the culprit here, bad management, retailers with no trust to the Hasbro brand, cheap customers ('clearance' advocates) or all of the above?
I bet if those exclusives were readily available in retail, Hasbro would be making fairly more money[/bitter]
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01-26-2013, 09:21 AM | #48 |
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I'm a Joe collector. So with no Joes in the stores, I don't visit the toy aisles much, but occasionally walk through them. What I see action figure-wise are a bunch of movie tie-ins that linger on the pegs for years. When Joe was rebuilt and rereleased in 2007 they flew off the shelves. Was it the new articulation? The retro card art? Either way, there was plenty to be had and it sold well - from what I saw. Then ROC came, and there was some oversaturation that clogged the pegs until they were forced to go on clearance. I bought a shit ton of these despite hating the movie. Lots of people complained about them, but they were decent figures and we still got some other ARAH-stuled figures in the mix. But because they didn't sell as was expected it seemed like the subsequent releases (POC/30th/Renegades) had lower production numbers, resulting in a lot of us missing out on some figures due to lack of availability.
Seems to me that they should take a brake from movie tie-ins and just focus on what has sold consistently well. But I'm no high paid exec getting fat bonuses. I'm just a guy that wants to buy their toys but don't see any to buy.
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01-26-2013, 09:53 AM | #49 |
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I'm a Joe collector. So with no Joes in the stores, I don't visit the toy aisles much, but occasionally walk through them. What I see action figure-wise are a bunch of movie tie-ins that linger on the pegs for years. When Joe was rebuilt and rereleased in 2007 they flew off the shelves. Was it the new articulation? The retro card art? Either way, there was plenty to be had and it sold well - from what I saw. Then ROC came, and there was some oversaturation that clogged the pegs until they were forced to go on clearance. I bought a shit ton of these despite hating the movie. Lots of people complained about them, but they were decent figures and we still got some other ARAH-stuled figures in the mix. But because they didn't sell as was expected it seemed like the subsequent releases (POC/30th/Renegades) had lower production numbers, resulting in a lot of us missing out on some figures due to lack of availability.
Seems to me that they should take a brake from movie tie-ins and just focus on what has sold consistently well. But I'm no high paid exec getting fat bonuses. I'm just a guy that wants to buy their toys but don't see any to buy. |
01-26-2013, 10:09 AM | #50 |
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Really, does this come as a shock? Retailers across the country cut down on ordering because of the problems they had over a year ago with too much product going to clearance racks after Christmas. 2012 was lackluster, but good for my wallet. Walmart did not restock any Hasbro action figures for the majority of the year; Target and TRU was pretty much the same. If you weren't a fan of Transformers: Prime or Avengers, you weren't finding anything new in retail.
The thing is, Hasbro has shown a pattern of not directly addressing customer concerns for years now and now its hurting them. We can talk to them about distribution issues, difficulty finding certain toys in particular, no Hasbro reps having a presence in parts of the country, etc. but it won't a difference if they just consider it to be petty complaints.
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