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Well it shouldn't be a suprise of all the Botcon TFs flooding ebay while doing a general search. And while fans are scrambling trying to get Botcon TFs sellers and possibly scalpers are busy trying their best to get all that they can, IMO. The other no surpriser is the prices for Longarm/Shockwave figure. You all know what most wanted for last years Minerva figure but personally I'm not very impressed with this years. I'll gladly wait for FOC SW. So how will you secure you Botcon TFs if you couldn't attend? Do you have an inside man/woman taking your request or will you take a risk and see what prices look like after Botcon?

I have someone getting me the figures I want, except for the yellow Straxus. And no way in hell am I paying eBay ripoff prices, and I laugh at anyone who does.

Never planned to get them so I don't even have to think about the madness. Haha.

I don't need any of those figures for my collection. They just don't fit in anywhere for me.

The ebay prices on those things are silly. So far there has only been one Botcon exclusive that I needed to go after. That was Razorclaw. Thankfully not a lot of people liked that guy, so he was cheap.

I just bought the SG Junkions for 188 bucks which I think was a decent deal. I normally try to wait out the Botcon rush, but I think this strategy can backfire at times. The SG Junkions happen to be figures that I think will appreciate in value and their prices will eventually rise due to the Junkions overall popularity, the fact that they have 3 different head molds (1 of which never even saw a stateside release) and they're homaging 3 popular Decepticon characters. In my opinion, the SG Junkions are probably the only 3 SG figures that were done right this year.

That being said, I'm sure many fans will agree with this and their demand will be fairly high down the line. It's just best, in my opinion, to spend the money now instead of waiting and risking the possibility that their prices will soar. Besides, 188 dollars for 3 deluxe sized Botcon figures isn't too bad. Works out to roughly 60 bucks a piece which, for an exclusive set of figures, I can live with.

I'm not that big a fan of the SG continuity, but I think that stems from the fact that SG Prime and Rodimus go for astronomical prices. I managed to scoop up the KO versions really cheap a little while ago, and they looked good alongside my lone SG Megatron that I got a few years back. Considering how people are hating some of the SG figures this year, it should be a little easier to beef up my small SG collection. I'm definitely going to get Soundwave at some point, and seeing as how everyone hates Straxus, he should be fairly easy to get as well. Now, to find SG Cyclonus for a decent price...

I would imagine there are vendors that have 2012 Botcon figs for sale yes...? So I wonder what they go for versus ebay prices?

You know, I'm not against convention exclusives. I still have my figures from the first couple Botcons in the mid-Nineties, when it was 1 exclusive per event. But the idea of having this many exclusives that will only end up on eBay just sickens me. Take a look at a current listing of the Junkions on eBay, all from one seller, for a period of less than ten hours:




If there are really this many available from the TFCC, why not limit sales at the event and put the rest online for everyone else?

Should they even be referred to as "exclusives" anymore?

Andrius wrote:You know, I'm not against convention exclusives. I still have my figures from the first couple Botcons in the mid-Nineties, when it was 1 exclusive per event. But the idea of having this many exclusives that will only end up on eBay just sickens me. Take a look at a current listing of the Junkions on eBay, all from one seller, for a period of less than ten hours:

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If there are really this many available from the TFCC, why not limit sales at the event and put the rest online for everyone else?

Yea, there do seem to be quite a bit of Junkion sets out there, but I'm guessing they make so many for the people who want to army build. I mean, army building with the mass release Junkion figures isn't out of the ordinary when you look at some people's collections, so I don't see why it'd be any different with these exclusives. Though it WOULD be nice if you could just order some of the army builder figures from a website (other than eBay) since there are apparently so many of them.

Off topic: It's always funny to me watching people bid on figures so early on eBay. I always hold off on bidding until the last 20-10 seconds of the auction. 99% of the time, I snipe some poor bastard who had been bidding on the item 4-5 days prior, lol.

WolfDawg wrote:Off topic: It's always funny to me watching people bid on figures so early on eBay. I always hold off on bidding until the last 20-10 seconds of the auction. 99% of the time, I snipe some poor bastard who had been bidding on the item 4-5 days prior, lol.

You are damn right. The business end of eBay it the last 10 seconds, and whose browser can refresh fast enough, and who has the biggest hat.