optimusprime58316 wrote:About time people r getting fed up with the outrageous prices Hasbro and Takara r charging for The Transformers Line. I have been saying this for 6 years now. People r starting to wake up. Keep it up people. By the way the trailer was standard for Optimus since 5 years ago before they got greedy and irresponsible with the pricing.
huh?.. greedy and irresponsible? .. outrageous prices?
prices for almost everything are higher. i mean, look at gas, it's up to $3.06 in my area and it's higher in the midwest. it costs more to make these figures, and we've come a long long way since the G1 brick (i love G1 fyi) which means it takes more work to design figures these days.
this is just the way the world works, not just hasbro and takara. I don't see how they're being greedy and irresponsible.. transformers in general cost more in japan, now add the new paint, the different packaging, and the fact that mpm is only being released overseas.. and the cost isn't all that outrageous. i mean, to import a voyager united figure is like $55 before shipping. like i said before, prices are all relative.
everyone overpays for everything everyday. if you go get a drink somewhere from a soda fountain, you're overpaying, if you buy fast food you're overpaying, if you buy a pair of jeans you're overpaying.
but you've got to remember.. you're never just paying for what you're getting, you're giving money to the people who designed the figure, the people who hired them, the paint for the figure, where the paint came from, the materials for said figure and its transportation to the factory, the distribution of that figure from the factory, the packaging materials, the transportation for the packaging materials.. etc.
plus, things are worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. to me, MPM starscream is worth the $100 price tag.
and here's the beautiful thing about this.. you don't have to buy any of it. you have a choice to buy this stuff or not.