It Is Him wrote:Dagon wrote:It Is Him wrote:
OK - call it whatever term you'd like. It's moot.
We've been down this road before as a fandom. Yeah, I have the right to not buy it, just as I have the right to take my business to other retailers - and I will. Didn't the entire fandom flip their collective **** after TFSource jacked up prices on exclusive Fansproject sets like the Snowman Superion set? Just because it's legal, and within their right to set prices to the market rate, doesn't make it palatable to the consumer.
Honestly, I'm just blowing off steam. It's not a big deal, anymore. I'm taking my money elsewhere.
We have been over this before, you are right. But it seems that the fandom's response these days is more along the lines of "just buy it, because you're somehow being childish or entitled for not buying/not liking/disagreeing with something."
Personally, I think it's stupid. It's a tired argument that people just keep using because apparently we're just supposed to support a brand/a retailer/a buisness because it exists, and if we don't like something about the product/price/service we're supposed to suck it up because the brand/retailer/business doesn't owe us anything; yet I'm supposed to owe the brand/etc. my money and loyalty because it exists. I'm sorry that my hobby involves toy robots and not some form of Stockholm syndrome, but I support your right to vent.
I think you lost me somewhere. It sounds like we're in agreement that we don't have to accept everything given to us by retailers (or Hasbro) at face value. And yeah, frankly, I don't think anybody owes me anything, except that I expect to be treated with a little respect, which Hasbro and most retailers are very good about.
Sorry, I meant to say I was agreeing with you. I think the "just accept everything" argument is dumb, not what you were saying, and that even though it doesn't change anything in the long run, I fully support the venting process.
GuyIncognito wrote:Yeah, it's crazy. It's like they're trying to make money or something.
As is the goal of any business. However, in order to make that money, they need to win over the customer who then gives the business the customers' money, and is not obligated to do so. If someone doesn't like a business' business or pricing they don't have to give that business money, and, provided that the same service or merchandise is available through some other channel via more personally acceptable means, the customer doesn't lose out on anything, whereas the business the customer does not select loses out on the money.
Ultimately, although the goal of a business is to make a profit, no customer is obligated to give their money to any particular business. It's much more of a symbiotic relationship that it is often presented as, which is the thing that I personally have an issue with in the fandom. If I don't like a toy or movie or hell, an article of clothing or a car or whatever, to use adult examples of things, I don't HAVE to buy them.
