william-james88 wrote:Shockwave7 wrote:Leader UM - a fine prize for those who don't mind paying a bit extra...
I wouldn't mind one, but my hankering for the other figures is much stronger.
Hey man, sorry if we keep butting heads over prices but I just wanted to know, is Magnus less than $43.77 a retail? How much of an extra is it?
The Amazon price was actually pretty close to retail - at least it WAS. The $44ish ones sold out of course, and now the price is listed somewhere around $90. Since the Amazon Prime price included delivery (if you had a Prime account) the $44 price would make total sense to go for. But that was no matter to me at that time. If I'd wanted leader UM, I would actually have gone for it, but I didn't. Why? 'Because my hankering for the other figures is much stronger....'
I'm still waiting to pounce on the W3 deluxe protectobots whenever they finally wheeze their way onto hasbrotoyshop.com. It's simple money limitations and mathematics. I could order them off BBTS. If you divide out the cost they're charging for all four W3 deluxes, it comes to about $16.99 each, which actually isn't that far removed from the retail price for a deluxe.
Problem is, unless you make an order for $150 or more, they include a fairly hefty delivery charge.
Now, at Hasbrotoyshop.com, you get free delivery with an order over $50 - which BBTS just can't compete with. I also have promo codes for hasbrotoyshop which will get me an additional 15% off the total purchase cost. So with HTS, I'll be getting %15 off and free delivery, whereas if I ordered with BBTS, I'd be paying full price, and also paying for shipping.
As I've said afore, not everyone can dig deep enough to cover that kind of expense. In my case, the trade-off seems to be that BBTS is being given first pick of every W3 deluxe that Hasbro is cranking out at the moment, and ignoring their own online distributors. Hence, my constant growling over the favoritism that is seemingly being given to BBTS, where customers have to pay at least $20 more overall to get all four W3 protectobots.
Hope that at least helps you to understand why we keep 'butting heads' over this. Some folks can eat the extra cost. Not others. If'n you can give me a promo code for BBTS that will cover delivery cost and give us X% off, then THAT would be news to shut my mouth. As for leader UM, it WOULD have been a deal to go for, which was highly unusual for an Amazon purchase this early out. But I just don't want him that much. The $90ish price he's now at on Amazon is closer to the markups you normally see for a figure like that which isn't available through normal retail (yet).