fenrir72 wrote: Though Oil prices too have had a big impact on TF product manufacture as I read that Aaron Archer used to have sleepless nights a few years back when oil/barrel = $100.00 up. It may have also affected the scaling decisions on certain figures. It's in tfwiki (assuming again the source is rock solid reliable)
Samsonator wrote:Current Canadian Pricing (Western Canada, anyway)
Generations/Combiner Wars
Legends: $12.99
Deluxe: $19.99
Voyager: $29.99
Leader: $59.99
Valandar wrote:The reason people claim prices should be down because oil is down has nothing to do with power plants - it's the fact that plastics are made from petroleum.
Tsutsukakushi wrote:To post my contribution in this thread.
Compared to Canada, Japan and Australia. America has the lowest price for minimum wage. America also has more workers making Minimum wage.
Other countries like Canada, Japan, Australia and some European countries pay their workers a higher price Minimum wage. Less workers in these countries are on minimum wage.
What does minimum wage have to do with Transformers toy prices? The higher the pay workers get in different countries, The more things cost in that country. It's called balancing things out.
fenrir72 wrote: Others have also claimed otherwise that the byproduct of oil/petroleum...... ABS/PVC have nothing to do with the rise and fall of prices. Also........how wrong they really ARE!
Crimson Prime wrote:Australian Generations/Combiner Wars (sorry, don't know the others off top of head)
Average price at most retail stores here.
Legends: $19
Deluxe: $29
Voyager: $49
Leader: $89
Samsonator wrote:Current Canadian Pricing (Western Canada, anyway)
Generations/Combiner Wars
Legends: $12.99
Deluxe: $19.99
Voyager: $29.99
Leader: $59.99
fenrir72 wrote:http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20141010/NEWS/141019997/nylon-pc-abs-could-hit-overcapacity
This seems to be good news for us collectors.
http://www.polymerupdate.com/
While this one seems alarmingly good(?).Too low a price would mean the resources might not be "harvested" as much as before, so as to create a shortage to stimulate price increases to make it more profitable (give incentives) to "harvest" the raw materials again. A case of supply and demand
http://www.chemorbis.com/plastics-price ... s-abs-pet/
An app to get into the nitty gritty of the industry
Nope! No hidden conspiracy here folks! If the prices of petroleum drops to low, the big bad oil companies might cutback in output so as to increase the prices again. This gives them the incentive to print money. No incentive? The consumers suffer!
Tsutsukakushi wrote:To post my contribution in this thread.
Compared to Canada, Japan and Australia. America has the lowest price for minimum wage. America also has more workers making Minimum wage.
Other countries like Canada, Japan, Australia and some European countries pay their workers a higher price Minimum wage. Less workers in these countries are on minimum wage.
What does minimum wage have to do with Transformers toy prices? The higher the pay workers get in different countries, The more things cost in that country. It's called balancing things out.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Crimson Prime wrote:Australian Generations/Combiner Wars (sorry, don't know the others off top of head)
Average price at most retail stores here.
Legends: $19
Deluxe: $29
Voyager: $49
Leader: $89Samsonator wrote:Current Canadian Pricing (Western Canada, anyway)
Generations/Combiner Wars
Legends: $12.99
Deluxe: $19.99
Voyager: $29.99
Leader: $59.99
Many thanks you two. Are those in-store or converted? I'd also like to see the UK prices for completion sake.fenrir72 wrote:http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20141010/NEWS/141019997/nylon-pc-abs-could-hit-overcapacity
This seems to be good news for us collectors.
http://www.polymerupdate.com/
While this one seems alarmingly good(?).Too low a price would mean the resources might not be "harvested" as much as before, so as to create a shortage to stimulate price increases to make it more profitable (give incentives) to "harvest" the raw materials again. A case of supply and demand
http://www.chemorbis.com/plastics-price ... s-abs-pet/
An app to get into the nitty gritty of the industry
Nope! No hidden conspiracy here folks! If the prices of petroleum drops to low, the big bad oil companies might cutback in output so as to increase the prices again. This gives them the incentive to print money. No incentive? The consumers suffer!
Well done on looking that up, I'll have to take a gander at that.Tsutsukakushi wrote:To post my contribution in this thread.
Compared to Canada, Japan and Australia. America has the lowest price for minimum wage. America also has more workers making Minimum wage.
Other countries like Canada, Japan, Australia and some European countries pay their workers a higher price Minimum wage. Less workers in these countries are on minimum wage.
What does minimum wage have to do with Transformers toy prices? The higher the pay workers get in different countries, The more things cost in that country. It's called balancing things out.
I actually had that in Economics Class, under "Buying Power". Put short, it doesn't just take into account how much a person makes on average, but also how much one can buy with what that person makes. The Class also dealt with the Price vs. Wages spiral: if the prices go up, the wages need to go up as well in order to keep the Buying Power stable. Exactly what you were saying.
Tsutsukakushi wrote:It's not just the rising oil cost that causes Transformers toys at the production factories near China to rise in prices.
It is also the Transportation of products by boat, trucks and planes that use oil. That causes the products to rise in prices in stores.
If stores in America have to pay double gasoline prices per gallon. to fill their transportation trucks, boats and jets. these cost get past on to the buyers in the form of price hikes on their products in the stores.
The more gasoline cost per gallon in that particular country. if effects the prices of products in stores.
fenrir72 wrote:Tsutsukakushi wrote:It's not just the rising oil cost that causes Transformers toys at the production factories near China to rise in prices.
It is also the Transportation of products by boat, trucks and planes that use oil. That causes the products to rise in prices in stores.
If stores in America have to pay double gasoline prices per gallon. to fill their transportation trucks, boats and jets. these cost get past on to the buyers in the form of price hikes on their products in the stores.
The more gasoline cost per gallon in that particular country. if effects the prices of products in stores.
As I previously mentioned, if statements on how negligible the prices of transportation fuel has NOTHING to do with the rise of prices (luxury or nececcesity alike) is really waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out there.
All these factors are interconnected.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Any other factors besides oil prices that could dictate prices? We all know the regular raw material, R&D, human labor and whatnot, what about the ones that determine the prices overseas? Aside from transport of course.
fenrir72 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Any other factors besides oil prices that could dictate prices? We all know the regular raw material, R&D, human labor and whatnot, what about the ones that determine the prices overseas? Aside from transport of course.
Local (depending on the country) taxation policies. Some countries labels toys as "luxuries" so their eager beaver taxman just can't wait to lay their grubby slimy hands on such.
LegendaryAntiHero wrote:That's odd. I thought the Europound was worth more than the dollar
LegendaryAntiHero wrote:That's odd. I thought the Europound was worth more than the dollar
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:LegendaryAntiHero wrote:That's odd. I thought the Europound was worth more than the dollar
Only barely though. However, thinking everything cost the same in any valuta is a big mistake, as you'll see once you convert the non-USA prices. In fact, everything in the U.S. is dirt cheap compared to here. For instance:
- What you guys pay for a big mansion is barely enough for a simple family home here.
- Gas is charged by the gallon with you guys, in Europe it's charged by the liter, which is roughly a mere quart.
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