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Originally Posted by BoNKerS
Dude i'm with you but these people like to compare the pricing with the Japanese sites...
how about you guys compare it to A3U, Automaton, BBTS, TFSource, etc...
I can get it cheaper over seas BLAH BLAH... man this forum makes me laugh at times...
Please write to TRU and ask them NOT to carry Masterpieces any more... that's what you people should be asking...
Oh wait... you still want TRU to assort. Just as long as the prices are the same if not lower than the Japanese sites... oh that's right...
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To be fair, I think you've lost your mind.
You're suggesting that TRU should price match third party independent stores? And that we should be thankful?
Um, no. Listen, I don't mind those stores if I'm ordering something from Japan that I might not otherwise get or won't get here in NA for another year. Specialty shops like the Silver Snail also do this. But it makes sense...
Because they aren't massive retailers. Look, if Snail orders these figs for even close to the same cost as the direct retailers in Japan then they get them in, with shipping, for roughly $60 USD each at best. Then, because Snail is in a prime tourist area, they mark them up to $79-$89 meaning they are making, at best, $15 - $25 per figure. They need to do this in order to make a living and pay for people to do the work to send the toys out to you.
TRU, on the other hand, through Hasbro, is a MASSIVE DISTRIBUTOR and instead of buying a hundred figures buys thousands of them to distribute via their own network to all of their stores. Walmart and TRU are cheaper because of the quantities they are dealing with and the fact that there is no middle man.
Therefore, having Prowl at the $60 import price we can currently get from a Japanese middle man is pushing it. Costing the figure at around $50 makes more sense given the actual effort for the store to get it out there. $69.99 is nothing short of greedy considering that you can buy the figure for LESS than that and have it shipped to you from Japan right now.
What don't you get about that? What's so funny?
Maybe history is confusing to you as well. MP10 was super-expensive in Japan, then released here for $100 (and when it came out there was a 30% off sale to boot!) and now, two years later, I'm seeing the same figure in a new paint job at US TRUs for $150.99. Why, in two years, is an inferior version of the same figure now worth $51 - $81 more?
HA HA HA HA. Yes, fans are funny for asking questions! HA HA HA HA. Yes, maybe fans SHOULD ask TRU not to overcharge us! HA HA HA HA. Having opinions and offering feedback is wrong in a democratic society!
(please note sarcasm)
Look, the bottom line is that people will either be happy or not with the pricing. I'm not. If you are, more power to you. But the math of it doesn't make sense no matter how you justify it. If you'll spend the cash happily, then go for it, but that doesn't mean others don't have the right to ask questions.
And, by the way, asking questions or being unhappy about something doesn't automatically mean they hate TRU or should write them and ask them to stop selling these figures. That's just asinine. It was through customer complaints that Xbox reversed all of their unpopular decisions last year. Fans gave feedback and voted with their wallets. They got greedy and were told. They had the wisdom to adjust. Those fans who wanted the freedom to do what they wanted with their own games weren't being ungrateful, they were being customers.
im with you 100%
