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gotta put it on, in spite of all the people blaming Hasbro...

I haven't read all 22 pages over this, but, I just got back from K-Mart in Peachtree City Ga and they have their Deluxes at 18.99.


This is making me more and more choosey about which ones I want to own. Infact, some that I had considered I have written off as this is simply too much money.

Funny enough, it makes the MPs look inexpensive. I wonder when they will have a price hike as well. (Unless they already have, charging 60 dollars for the cassette double packs)

Severa wrote:I haven't read all 22 pages over this, but, I just got back from K-Mart in Peachtree City Ga and they have their Deluxes at 18.99.


This is making me more and more choosey about which ones I want to own. Infact, some that I had considered I have written off as this is simply too much money.

Funny enough, it makes the MPs look inexpensive. I wonder when they will have a price hike as well. (Unless they already have, charging 60 dollars for the cassette double packs)

They wont, because they have an MSRP, plus the E-tailers that we love here as sponsors have yet to raise prices randomly for no reason.

the last time i was in walmart, their price on the foc transformers was about $15.00. i havent purchased one there since before the price hike, and i visit four walmarts, a target, tru, and even ross and bealls for transformers on sale. i might start just buying 1-2 online until hasbro decides that they can lower prices a little bit.

i remember when these ones would only be about 10 bucks whats wrong with hasbro are they trying to piss us all off. Also 14.96 is what the target here costs and the walmarts 15.96 and there are 2 of them the only major problem for me is that them restocking is impossible they have had the same bots out for over 2 months nothing has changed -except i got all 3 fall of cybertron figures and the one ratchet from primes but other than that its just the 3 cybertron figure and lots of bumblebees -i did find one knockout at walmart-got it but thats it. The one jewel i found recently was the generations kup at a toysrus in atlanta ga when i was at a con for 14.95

one of the reasons why its getting difficult for me to collect on a weekly/monthly basis

It might be partially our faults. The lowered prices due to mass production during the movie lines held a staedy price until that eded. It is primarily a collectors market now, so when Hasbro watches us shell out $50+ bucks unremorsefully thru thier "fan" site, they rest easy charging you $18 at retail. The only solution is to boycott, but even that might sink the brand into oblivion.

The first Transformer I bought as an Adult was Excellion for $8. That is almost voyager size these days.

reflector7 wrote:It might be partially our faults. The lowered prices due to mass production during the movie lines held a staedy price until that eded. It is primarily a collectors market now, so when Hasbro watches us shell out $50+ bucks unremorsefully thru thier "fan" site, they rest easy charging you $18 at retail. The only solution is to boycott, but even that might sink the brand into oblivion.

Exactly.

i just wait here in canada esspecially at wal mart with batman and avengers toys seeling like crazy the transformers sections always stays loaded with toys i just wait for sales.. i know at the bargain shop in canada deluxe transformers are 21.99 and i gave the store manager a peice of my mind and told her she wouldnt sell any of them to an actual collector maybe parents who just need a toy for a birthday or something she replied that it was main office who decides the prices so 21.99 at a place called the bargain shop is crazy transformers are cheaper at mom and pop drug stores

and i notice transformers have to be one of the easiest toys to steal esspecially at walk mart and big places maybe that could be a reason for high prices too