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Stryfe Convoy wrote:

jamiko wrote:I want that crystal first edition but, sadly will never be able to afford it.

I hit the web and did the currency conversion, it'll be about 64 dollars for each figure. Of course, that means that BBTS is selling their's for 99.99... That's how much they're making off of it...

False.

To get this figure from a convention to the states requires BBTS to pay for three services.
1) The initial cost of the figures at the convention
2) An entity (could be a single person or a group) to go to the convention with the main goal of procuring as many of these as possible
3) That entity to ship their acquired goods to BBTS via a priority carrier

Both of which mean that to get these figures to their door, BBTS is probably paying about 80-85 a head. Which knocks their profit margin down quite a bit, from 36% to 15% which is a pretty standard profit margin for most retailers, especially for hard-to-obtain items such as these.

Mkall wrote:

Stryfe Convoy wrote:

jamiko wrote:I want that crystal first edition but, sadly will never be able to afford it.

I hit the web and did the currency conversion, it'll be about 64 dollars for each figure. Of course, that means that BBTS is selling their's for 99.99... That's how much they're making off of it...

False.

To get this figure from a convention to the states requires BBTS to pay for three services.
1) The initial cost of the figures at the convention
2) An entity (could be a single person or a group) to go to the convention with the main goal of procuring as many of these as possible
3) That entity to ship their acquired goods to BBTS via a priority carrier

Both of which mean that to get these figures to their door, BBTS is probably paying about 80-85 a head. Which knocks their profit margin down quite a bit, from 36% to 15% which is a pretty standard profit margin for most retailers, especially for hard-to-obtain items such as these.

My mistake... I hadn't thought about the shipping and whatnot...

Still all in all, I want that black Prime... I love that mold, I love the notion of a black Prime, and I love the notion of an evil Prime... This one just looks very sexy while doing all of the above. Too bad I didn't get a pre-order in for it...

I'll be going =)

And I thought it was free entry into the Show.
Hope so..

Mkall wrote:

Stryfe Convoy wrote:

jamiko wrote:I want that crystal first edition but, sadly will never be able to afford it.

I hit the web and did the currency conversion, it'll be about 64 dollars for each figure. Of course, that means that BBTS is selling their's for 99.99... That's how much they're making off of it...

False.

To get this figure from a convention to the states requires BBTS to pay for three services.
1) The initial cost of the figures at the convention
2) An entity (could be a single person or a group) to go to the convention with the main goal of procuring as many of these as possible
3) That entity to ship their acquired goods to BBTS via a priority carrier

Both of which mean that to get these figures to their door, BBTS is probably paying about 80-85 a head. Which knocks their profit margin down quite a bit, from 36% to 15% which is a pretty standard profit margin for most retailers, especially for hard-to-obtain items such as these.

My mind=Blown..... LoL.. Thanks for the breakdown Mkall!

Courtesy of Hisashi Yuki's Twitter account we two new images of the 2012 International Tokyo Toy Show exclusive United Black Optimus Prime. We've mirrored the images below. This figure along with a crystal version of Transformers Prime "First Edition" Voyager Optimus Prime will be available at this weekend's show.

I like the black prime, and I even like it better than the older SDCC one HTS had (the red windows rock!)

But I don't like it $100 better than the one I have, so it's a pass.

Clear variants are not my thing, so that is not at all tempting my wallet.

Still the best Prime mold of all-time, IMO.

"Black Optimus Prime" (ブラックオプティマスプライム Burakku Oputimasu Puraimu)

I only hope the integrity of the mold for United Prime is good if not fare considering mold degradation.