Hasbro Planning To Raise Toy Prices And Modifying For A Cost Cut
 

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Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner spoke to CNBC and Yahoo Finance yesterday, regarding the future of the company. Among the discussion points was the mitigation and contingency plan for the eventual US tariff increase to be imposed to toys manufactured in China. As a temporary solution Hasbro is planning to pass-on the price increase to the customer and therefore safeguading the retailers. “We’re having conversations with our retailers and of course we will pass along those costs.” The company hopes to “effectively pass on those costs” by mitigating the margin internally. But “ultimately, [they] will be borne by the » Continue Reading.

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The only TFs still made in China are: the G1 WM re-releases, some Tiny Turbo changers (non-Cyberverse) and some BotBots. Unless I missed something, no reason for a TF price jump.

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If prices go any higher, then screw them. 3rd party all the way.

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If this raises our prices here in Canada I'm gonna be pretty mad at the obvious price gouging since we aren't taking part in this trade war and haven't levelled any tariffs.

Edit: we haven't levelled tariffs against China. There was a flurry of tariffs between us here and the US during the whole NAFTA replacement drama. I'll admit though that I haven't been keeping totally up to date on all the US-China trade war drama, so if someone more informed wants to correct me in any of this I'd appreciate it :)

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Prices are already prohibitively high... $30 for a Deluxe? Get out of here with that.

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As if mass produced pieces of plastic werent enough. Ill happily take my money to 3rd parties and get a much higher quality product for a similar price.

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But we still gonna buy dont kid yourself....lm not.

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Since most Hasbro Transformers are made in Vietnam now and most, if not all, 3rd party figures are made in China still, what are the odds of 3rd party figure costs going up?

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Any excuse ....they should fix there lousy distrabution and qc issues before pulling this shit tired of paying there high prices plus do to no stock ,short stock ,and buying outside of the country for stuff that should be on shelves in quantity here. Rant ends

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Third party products, esp the top tier ones, are also creeping up. Don’t kid yourselves.

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See? THIS is what justifying that idiotic Unicron is doing. If they can sucker and screw fans with that then they might as well go all the way. Not even slightly shocked to hear this. It is exactly what ai have been advocating against all along.

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If/when this comes to light Im ok with it :) ... There’s plenty more things in life that I can dedicate my time & money towards.

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Hasbro and Takara have already been raising prices on Masterpiece figures already. Most of the Hasbro toys are overpriced now as it is. Take Marvel Legends or Star Wars Black series. For what you get at 40.00 a figure is insane. It made me stop buying them. I only buy specific Transformers now because most are over-priced even on sale.
Third Party stuff will follow suit soon enough but everything everywhere is getting more expensive. It's not a good thing but if I want that specific figure, take Beast Wars MP's, I have to pay their inflated price and sacrifice on the regular stuff I normally would buy.

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Can someone remove or shrink the image on OP post?

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Only Super Megatron can do that. I can however download the image, resize it, then re-upload it to a new post in this thread but that original post can only be edited by OP (Super Megatron).

As for the article, this really is starting to be a real hassle to collect this crap anymore. There taking all the fun out of it. Basically you get the same figures (BB, OP, Megs, Starscream etc etc) over & over again just slightly different, cheaper plastic (& less plastic at that), more hollow pieces, less quality, very poor distribution & now again we get another price increase ? Pretty soon the box will be worth more (for the box art) in the end then the figure itself. Let em' keep doing this. They're just pushing more of us out of the hobby plus the more the price goes up, parents buy less for their kids come Xmas time, Birthdays etc. & in the end they lose out on the $$$.

Ya know this is ok by me too. I collect other things beside TF's anyway - Funko Pop's, Hot Wheels, Hockey Cards, CD's & DVD's etc. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it. Plain & simple. :)

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Can't wait for $50 Deluxes! Great job Hasbro! Always doing what's best for the fans!