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Originally Posted by imfallenangel
First, I've been collecting probably longer than many here have been alive, and I remember and even have boxes or cards with the price tags, and I used a few references to prices, with inflation and such rates applied, so instead of making comments to disparage me, I'd rather you make valid points.
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So what? This maybe true. It maybe not. Age does not grant one automatic wisdom or knowledge. That's earned.
I'm not disparaging you. I'm pointing out the problems with your stance on things and the things you've stated as fact.
Just so we can be clear on thing, because the waters are kind of muddied here, what point are you trying to make?
You point to your price tags. I point to this forum's hundreds of pages of sightings posts from different areas of the country that state exactly how much something was at a specific date.
Are you saying those postings are wrong?
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Originally Posted by imfallenangel
Two, providing examples of various figures set at Deluxe that are not close to being similar in quality is far from arbitrary but fact. More so when you have the exact same figure in two series but with a 50% increase in price tag.
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So, it's the same figure being sold at different prices. Again, I ask what point are you trying to make here?
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Originally Posted by imfallenangel
I'm happy for you that you are amused, but the reality is that as a collector, I do like the Siege line enough to want it, though I do find it overpriced... According to you and your peers, somehow, I shouldn't be allowed to state that I find them overpriced because I bought them regardless?
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I'm not saying this, but you have to realize buying figures that are in your eyes overpriced and then complaining about not just mildly, but getting upset about it, it is a self inflicted wound.
It's like people who've watched all the Michael bay transformers movies and write pages and pages of posts on each, whining about how how he rapes their childhood every time they watch one and how each is a waste of time and money.
The simple solution is to not watch the movies. Problem solved.
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Originally Posted by imfallenangel
Let's see what the options are, when you are a collector, see something that you do want and:
Buy it at the regular price if you find the figure or...
hope for a sale and run the risk that it will be gone, poached or due the low stock... And then what?
1) you just don't manage to get it, which sucks
2) you find it at scalpers prices
3) you wait and hope that new stock show up somewhere at acceptable prices.
So LOTs of risk, large gamble, etc.
I hesitated on some figures before and never saw them again... So yeah I'm now paranoid.
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You forgot option 4. Wait as long as it takes for you find it at a whatever price you find is reasonable. So what, you may miss out on, according to you some "children's toys." Is that like the end of the world? No.
There are plenty of TFs that I want that are too expensive for me to comfortably drop money on, so I live without them. You live within your means.
When Beast Wars was around, I never found Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia on the toy shelf. The first time I saw her was in a comic shop a couple of years later, and she was $80 MISB. Her retail price was I believe $20. I didn't buy her. Though I could afford her, I decided she was too expensive. I was not going to pay that price. Same situation when I saw here on eBay a few years later.
So I made peace with the fact that I was probably never going to own a TM2 Blackarachnia. Then about 10 years later, I walk into a collectibles store to browse their loose transformers, and guess what's sitting in the case, TM2 Blackarachnia for $40. That was a price I thought was reasonable, and it was a price I was willing to pay, so I got her. It took a while but hey. Sometime the best things in life are worth waiting for.
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Originally Posted by Nocturn
Please note that I'm not happy with prices increasing, I don't agree with what Hasbro/the toy industry is doing, and I would prefer to live in a world where everything is free for everyone. But reality is Black Widow and Ryu for $29.99.
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Yep. I want to live in that world too.