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monstergrotusque wrote:Agreed that it is not the easiest solution to the problem but it's certainly not rocket surgery either.

Removing a sticker from a figure is possible and could be a viable solution if these sets don't show up.

Spoken like someone who has never tried to remove stickers from his G1 toys, much less removed them in a condition where they are scannable. I can tell you from much experience that your G1 stickers will not come off easily or nicely, much less in a useful form.

^Have you ever attempted to take a sticker off of a G1 figure. I know the answer to that already, and it is NO. To take stickers off of the figure pretty much destroys them into unrecognizable crinkles of colored paper.

Most of you guys in this thread seem to be about eleven years old, and haven't a single clue of what you are talking about, and my newly repro'd G1 Starscream that I did last night would like to have a word with you.

Applied stickers are not hard to remove.

In fact, they are easy as pie. I will pass on to you what I learned from Heroic_Decepticon. All you need is Zippo lighter fluid... yes.. you read that right.. Zippo lighter fluid.

Read on here:

http://heroicdecepticon.blogspot.com/20 ... -from.html

I've done this a few times already and works like magic. If you want to be extra careful, remove with an old G1 tech spec decoder. It is super thin, and will slide under the sticker without damaging it. (my tip )

HighPrime wrote:Applied stickers are not hard to remove.

In fact, they are easy as pie. I will pass on to you what I learned from Heroic_Decepticon. All you need is Zippo lighter fluid... yes.. you read that right.. Zippo lighter fluid.

Read on here:

http://heroicdecepticon.blogspot.com/20 ... -from.html

I've done this a few times already and works like magic. If you want to be extra careful, remove with an old G1 tech spec decolder. It is super thin, and will slide under the sticker without damaging it. (my tip )

Interesting, although that solution is still not 100%

JackStraw wrote:Also, I for one have a very very hard time putting reprolabels created off of a scan on a vintage G1 figure that I paid a lot of money for. It's like putting new after market parts on a vintage car. It can be neat, but it's no longer so much vintage. Even if they looked exactly the same, it's still not right...and they don't look exactly the same.

This is not really true though. The overwhelming majority of collectors that I have seen do not even take into consideration whether or not the stickers are original or repros, in fact they put repros on their figs. I have yet to see an incidence where that is the case, although you may certainly be the first.

Burn wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:Isn't it possible to remove the stickers from existing figures for scanning?

You'll have a hard time trying to remove stickers that have been in place for 25 odd years in one piece.

Ain't that the truth!

JackStraw wrote:However, with all due respect, I do feel that it is valid to question a business paying a paltry $10 for something that they are going to turn into a product that they can then turn around and sell infinitely. They are still a business and are trying to turn a profit not some kind of not for profit charity organization.

Yes, they're a business. And they're paying for assistance

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Some feel not enough. In 2011 $10 isnt much, I think it may have looked better if they offered a whole bunch of free product instead of $10 - even if the cost to them was less than $10. When I told my wife about this she had the EXACT same reaction as one of the first posters: "Wow, ten whole dollars!?"

I think the great misconception here is that Reprolabels are going to make a lot of money out of this. I don't see that happening. For each sticker sheet scanned, I really couldn't see them selling more than $1000 worth.

Is anyone privy to Reprolabels financials? No? Thought not.

I think that would be very interesting. I'm sure gross or net revenue isnt very high, but I bet the profit margins are through the roof, to the point they would never want anyone to see.

As someone said earlier, $10 for five minutes of scanning. $120/hr ... does that really sound poultry to anyone? Really?

Indeed it does (paltry), as this is what a lot of this discussion seems to revolve around.

I strongly believe in "if you dont have anything nice to say dont say it", but being this is a discussion forum I dont think anyone's opinions here are out of line. My only reason for getting involved was not to bust Repro's chops, but I felt the first few posters who made comments about the paltry $10 had their chops busted a little bit, and wanted to say that whether you agree like I do, or not, these opinions are not crazy.
Peace

JackStraw wrote:
I strongly believe in "if you dont have anything nice to say dont say it", but being this is a discussion forum I dont think anyone's opinions here are out of line. My only reason for getting involved was not to bust Repro's chops, but I felt the first few posters who made comments about the paltry $10 had their chops busted a little bit, and wanted to say that whether you agree like I do, or not, these opinions are not crazy.
Peace

What would you say a fair price is then? Or anyone who doesn't think this is a good deal.

JackStraw wrote:However, with all due respect, I do feel that it is valid to question a business paying a paltry $10 for something that they are going to turn into a product that they can then turn around and sell infinitely. They are still a business and are trying to turn a profit not some kind of not for profit charity organization.

How is them paying us $10 for less than 5 minutes of work wrong? For that matter, how is them paying you to help them with their business any different than you guys actively participating on Seibertron.com and/or supporting the advertisers on this website (which in turn supports my business), or other websites for that matter, any different? You're not paying Seibertron.com to participate ... the advertisers on this site take care of this because you support them. Content about Transformers (whether it's the news, my galleries, the forums, etc) is the currency with which all of you receive by participating on Seibertron.com. ReproLabels doesn't have that luxury.

They could have not offered the $10 and just asked for help, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion. I told them to keep their $10 for my Quickswitch sticker scan and Metalhawk sticker scan. Hopefully they'll make a Sixknight sticker sheet out of Quickswitch so that I can do galleries of Sixknight, Greatshot, Quickswitch, and Sixshot at long last.

For those of you bitching about Reprolabels, your comments are very tellling that you either are not a G1 collector or are naive about how businesses like ReproLabels operate. Do yourself a favor and go out and buy some old school Transformers toys and spruce them up with some stickers.

As for Reprolabels ... I bet most of you couldn't even tell which G1 figures in my galleries have used Reprolabels and which ones have not. Most of them use a combination of Reprolabels or eBay reproduction stickers or original stickers. I prefer to use the original stickers when possible, but some times the other stickers actually have been cuts or improved colors that photograph better.

I have no idea, I would need to see the financials...or at least some stats on how much they sell, profit margins etc... $10 just sounds really low for a business to pay for something that they will turn into a product that they could sell without end.

Like I said - and not knowing the financials, it may have looked better had they offered $25 worth of merch which could cost them less than $10 - but maybe not.

I'm not saying they are bad. I think their hearts are in the right place and offering actual money is very cool. If they offered store credit a lot of folks would complain they should pay money.

My sole point is just that the people who complained about it are entitled to their opinion. I'm sure this site which I love and respect probably has a relationship with them, but the folks who find the $10 offer a little...cheep or whatever shouldn't be flamed or scolded.