KAPOW TOYS
Tis a sad day at Kapow Toys, after much deliberation and thought we have decided to withdraw from the 3rd party toy market and greatly reduce the amount of companies we deal with.
Over the last few years the amount of companies / individuals with an idea has increased in such number its become nigh on impossible for many retailers to keep up with it all let alone successfully sell the items for the prices demanded, in turn quality has slipped, interest has withered and the only winners are the people manufacturing the products themselves. In many cases they would rather tell a blogger or product photographer more than those funding their business and selling their items, this is not a healthy working relationship and one that causes many day to day problems on our side of the fence costing money and business in the short and long terms.
With many companies it has now reached the point of having to basically beg to sell an item or even establish a decent line of communication, when your throwing thousands of £'s at people wanting to purchase stock it is a bizarre set of circumstances and one we can no longer put the effort or finance into supporting, imagine if you emailed Kapow Toys wanting to purchase a £100 of figures and we couldn't be bothered to respond to you ? I'm sure we would soon be out of business or at least find our audience drying up.
Over the next week many open pre-orders will begin to close and after we have fulfilled the items on release will no longer re-stock or add new items in that category. Certain companies will remain unchanged as they have been easy to deal with and supported the European market and fans from the beginning but it would be unfair to name them here on Facebook as it would give an indication there is a specific problem with specific companies which is not the case, there is no malice or vindictiveness in our announcement its simply not working on some fronts and we have to draw a line in the sand.
This is by no means the end completely and we will still continue to bring the 3p news via our Facebook page and sell small quantities of new items but on a first come, first serve basis without a re-stock and often without a pre-order.
I hope you understand the predicament we find ourselves in and thank you for your understanding, the positive flip side of this is we will have more money to improve our already large range of Hasbro and Takara Transformers, figures and accessories.
Thanks for reading
Andy & The Kapow Toys Team.