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Originally Posted by predahank
CMD are pieces of shit
They buyout WM stuff when it goes on clearance and immediately put them up on WM marketplace for quadruple the clearance price.
I wish TSM got all the coneheads
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Just to illustrate how shady that is, I went and found a blog that outlines the Walmart marketplace fee system and this is the reality:
Walmart charges a 15% "referral fee" on toys and collectibles.
That's it. Nowhere near enough to justify a double/triple/quadruple markup.
People say "oh but they sell at fair prices on their website." but that just makes it
worse because it means this isn't simply a misguided our regularly shady business model. It's actually them trying to capitalize on people who are willing to pay that price because they either don't know any better or are desperate. We won't generally be suckered by the walmart orders, but I could see some unaware parents or grandparents buying an expensive transformer off of there knowing the kid has some big ones and figuring the price means it must be big like that. Then it arrives and it's just a Deluxe figure.
It's gross that it happens. It's gross enough to hoover up stock and deny it to people to pad your coffers, but it's worse to then throttle people with inflated prices to that degree.
