MINDVVIPE wrote:t$money$49 wrote:Man youre lucky ive only seen one of wrekgar and proceptor. I didnt have money for them until i got home. The next day i got there and saw a guy in the row taking every rts transformer there. I asked what the hell he was doing and he said "Im goin to sell them for double on line and the ones that dont sell im goin to throw away." After that he walked away wnd so i left too. His car was right next to my parents car and then i saw him drive across the road to a comic book store and grab the bags from the trunk if his car and bring them to the store. After that i eould never buy a tf at that target again. ( sorry for getting off topic i just had to get this off my chest. Its been bugging me for a while.
Yea thats some real douchebag s#!t right there. People really have such little creativity? or no better an idea of how to spend their time making money? I would have just pushed the fag over and taken what I wanted. Yes, I'm a Decepticon for a reason.
Yeah, that sucks right there but here's my thought on this issue and nobody is going to like it. But it isn't the scapler's fault for doing that. Its all of the collector's fault who have ever bought a figure off of ebay or anywhere else online for an inflated price simply because they had to have that figure and they had to have it now.
Its a simple lesson in supply and demand. If the collectors didn't pay stupid prices for the figures on ebay, they wouldn't keep showing up on ebay. The buyers decide the market, not the sellers. You see it all over this hobby and plenty of people complain about but nobody wants to acknowledge their part in it. Scalped figures, over-priced KO's, ridiculously priced third party accessories all being bought in droves by collectors, who then turn around and complain about the prices they paid.
Sure you can blame some of the figure scalping prices on parents buying their kids the figures that their kids want when they don't even know what they are buying. But there aren't any parents out there buying their kids $200 city commander sets or $40 crazy dev fists or $300 Fort Max Ko's, I'll tell you that. Thats all collectors right there.
I love my hobby and I love my collection but I refuse to let myself be ripped off by anybody to support it. There are a few truths in life and one of them is this: you can be part of the problem or you can be part of the solution but you can't be both.
When collectors stop paying ridiculous prices for their toys, over time, the scalping problem will start to go away. But as long as the scalpers make a profit, then it won't.
Nice. Any chance you've found a suitable piece of plastic for his eyepeice? Of course I don't know how something like that would attach without glue.
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