I agree that buying up a bunch of items and then selling them at inflated prices is considered scalping but I don’t care because as others have stated if you don’t like the price you don’t have to pay it.
As the purchaser you have options such as passing on the item, offering to buy it at a lower price and negotiating, looking for it cheaper elsewhere, or waiting and keeping an eye out for it to be sold in the future at a price you are comfortable paying.
Who knows maybe after waiting a period of time you realize you don’t need it in your life to make you happy or find out that there are terrible QC issues with the figure or a newer better version is released.
This thread is full of people complaining about the issue while no one has offered up any suggestions to help battle the issue other than not paying the price scalpers are trying to selling the items at.
Here is a suggestion for some of you, create relationships on this platform with other fellow board members that live in other parts of your province, state, country, or world and work with each other to help find the items that you or they can’t find in your respective areas and mail them to each other or hold on to them until you see each other in person.
For example over the years I have read peoples wanted lists on here and realized I could pick up some of the items they were looking for as they were still on the shelves in my area while they were sold out in that persons area. I reached out and offered to pick up and ship the item to the person or drop it off when I saw them at a con (I’m really starting to miss those). I do this for my nephew all the time and have also done it multiple times for other collectors.
I recently did this when I was on a road trip and found plenty of a hard to find item so I sent out a message on a Discord server that I am on (Transmissions) and ended up picking up a bunch of stuff for my nephew and other collectors and only charged them the retail price plus actual shipping that was rounded to the nearest dollar.
Make relationships with fellow collectors and look out for each other. Try to come up with solutions to problems in the fandom. If there is a preorder coming up and it is a limited item, order an extra one and sell it to another collector at cost that you have such a relationship with or post it for sale at cost, I have seen that done on these boards with the Pit of Judgement.
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Originally Posted by RNSrobot
Are you deliberately ignoring the piece where you CLEANED OUT A STORE, and are now selling these for a profit after removing all supplies from the playing field?
Your $45 isn't relevant. Your clearing a bunch of shit out, screwing others out of fairly obtaining some sale items, and then marking them up to sell is.
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Just a hypothetical question to end this post.
Am I in the wrong if I were to clear out a store of an item on sale only to donate them all to a local toy drive as it is screwing others out of fairly obtaining some sale items?
