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Old 08-24-2009, 04:45 PM   #11
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Re: Cybertron.ca's Transformers Q&A Answers for August 2009 from Hasbro

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How much do you think Skywarp will go for?
Well....MP Starscream went for $50 US so probably $60-70 CDN

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who's brilliant idea was it to end it?
Poor sales? Lack of new licenses to produce new molds?
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:10 PM   #12
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Answer #1 really doesn't put that situation in the clear though. Which shipping method do they use? If UPS, or anything other than USPS, well there's problem #1. Would immediately be doing a disservice to Canadian customers and can be easily researched.

With USPS, taxes only get charged from $40 and up (not including shipping, only value of goods), and even then not all the time. So for any purchase under $40, right away that doesn't make any sense.

Also with USPS, there is First Class International, which is massively cheaper than other shipping options. It is less secure, but still rather secure and other retailers like TFSource offer this shipping option.

Also, how do they guess the duty/taxes? Do they ever make any money off over estimating? Anyone who's had UPS come across the border knows that you could send the same item marked the same way 5 times and get charged 5 different duty/tax/upscam values for fees. Do they refund the difference of over-estimations?

So in conclusion I see this answer that they are really just servicing us as total garbage. If they really wanted to keep the price down there are better things they could be doing. Paying $30 shipping on a single smallish purchase (just for starters) is ridiculous and not market-savvy.

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Old 08-24-2009, 06:29 PM   #13
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Well....MP Starscream went for $50 US so probably $60-70 CDN
Probably closer to $80.

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Poor sales? Lack of new licenses to produce new molds?
From what I understand Hasbro canned Alt's because it was to hard to market them to a mass audience, to much of a niche collectors market.
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Old 08-24-2009, 06:31 PM   #14
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From what I understand Hasbro canned Alt's because it was to hard to market them to a mass audience, to much of a niche collectors market.
I figured it was due to poor sales
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Old 08-24-2009, 06:35 PM   #15
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Great answers.

I'm saving my pennies for a Skywarp. I don't own that mold yet.
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Old 08-24-2009, 06:35 PM   #16
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I figured it was due to poor sales
What makes you say that? Not really much evidence to support that conclusion.
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Old 08-24-2009, 06:36 PM   #17
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Man im pretty disappointed with the Classics line being done. They could have at least ended with finally making a Jazz mold!! Would have been real sweet in this line.
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Old 08-24-2009, 06:41 PM   #18
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What makes you say that? Not really much evidence to support that conclusion.
Your previous statement

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From what I understand Hasbro canned Alt's because it was to hard to market them to a mass audience, to much of a niche collectors market.
Perhaps poor sales may not be the best words but what you're saying here is that the line didn't meet expectations. What other expectations were there to meet other then selling units? It was a niche market, mostly collectors were buying them, sounds like poor sales if what you're saying is true.
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I think they sold well, but I hear what your saying though, I don't think they can get the same sales volume as you can with the movie toys. I think Hasbro has made the right call there as at least with movie toys you can still take actual vehicles and make them into Transformers.

But like I said Alternators are hard to market as they only ever appealed to the hard core collectors market. They sold well but with lines like the movie and Universe you can appeal to a much greater audience.

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Old 08-24-2009, 06:48 PM   #20
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I think they sold well, but I hear what your saying though, I don't think they can get the same sales volume as you can with the movie toys. I think Hasbro has made the right call there as at least with movie toys you can still take actual vehicles and make them into Transformers.
Yup, if you're looking for alt modes based of real vehicle movie line/universe 2.0 is the way to go right now. Course they don't have the same aesthetic and size alternators have. I will say the recent movie toys are about on par with complexity though as some of the transformations are equally difficult...may not take as long to transform as an alternator but ya get what I'm saying.

Course we're getting off topic now and this is a whole nother conversation and another cup of coffee.
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