Editor wrote:As I do not see that Samson has responded, those look like TRU prices, in CND Dollars.
Prices between our TRU and Walmarts fluctuate, but currently CW limbs are 2 bucks cheaper at TRU.
And sorry if I've missed it, but two major cost issues that effect us above the connected 48, are a) costs for shipping to remote chain stores are spread out to all to cover, and I doubt you would find too many shipments to "remote" locations in the 48 are anywhere close to the costs to some Canadian cities that sit further from the main centres where the distribution points are. And b) the one I think gets overlooked by many, of the numbers of total units produced for any given area, where there are changes in packaging, inserts, and other add-ons seen or not seen in other areas.
This affects Canadians because as we all know our packaging and add-ins are usually different, and that needs to get paid for somewhere, but if we expand it to the bigger picture.....
I've seen a lot of posts stating the costs for the Japanese market against the US market, and they don't touch on a major fact that while the Japanese market is mainly targeting collectors (IMO) while Hasbro is still producing for kids first in most cases. Even with Japanese releases getting to the secondary english market, the odds are for many the numbers being produced are smaller (let alone the number if small run special editions done over there) than the "hasbro" units being produced for multiple countries/markets.
This one bugs me when not looked at, because if something from Takara is only produced to say 25,000 units, while the Hasbro release is 100,000 units, then it goes without saying that the Takara one will cost more to produce due to the smaller print run. It's a fact of manufacturing. (and yes, my day job deals with stuff like this so i'm not just talking out my ass) to figure that something that comes out of the same moulds but in different colors and/or paint apps should cost the same without looking at the production numbers and per unit production costs is shortsighted.
Well that's just my 2 cents. (currently worth approximately $0.0164 US, 1.97 yen, 1 pence sterling, or 0.01 euro. )
We did mention that in the other thread but some of it was taken down already. The "that" meaning, the collector market for Japan is waaaaaay different than the world in general.
We primarily focused on the "boring" stuff that made us sleep during our economic class in college