Figure kingdom
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Post by Figure kingdom on May 24, 2015 11:37:57 GMT -5
The rising costs have caused me to take a BIG hit with my figure collection. Money is tight for a lot of people still. So if they continue to rise in price, will cause me to quit figure collecting. How many millions are enough for these greedy companies?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 11:51:29 GMT -5
I think if we stop buying elites, they will either lower the quality or lower the price.
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Post by metallica90 on May 24, 2015 12:08:39 GMT -5
Yep got two elites and it came to 43 and change
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DIESEL
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Post by DIESEL on May 24, 2015 12:14:18 GMT -5
My TRU Elites are $20, not $16-$17...
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Neekotronus
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Post by Neekotronus on May 24, 2015 12:27:14 GMT -5
It's not just Mattel, Hasbro did the same thing with their Transformers at Tru, deluxe prices went up in January from 14.99, then Feb to 16.99, now to 19.99, walmart is currently the cheapest at 14.94, and you can price match, Target has raised prices also, up from 12.99 to 15.99, and 16.99 in some stores also.
But it's all a scam. People are making less and oil costs were down for quite a while, it's not all about profit, but greed.
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alex316
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Post by alex316 on May 24, 2015 12:28:12 GMT -5
My TRU Elites are $20, not $16-$17... This. TRU elite prices in NYC are 19.49
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Browser Brody
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Post by Browser Brody on May 24, 2015 12:53:28 GMT -5
Online is the way to go. Costs more, but hassle free.
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smullanjr
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Post by smullanjr on May 24, 2015 12:54:38 GMT -5
TRU elites here are $16.99. Just use the $16.99 TRU price and have Target price match it.
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Post by The neferious brotha Hargrove on May 24, 2015 13:28:07 GMT -5
I have no problems with target and their prices , the reason is they always get new stock in wwe figures they have some pretty helpful workers and they don't mind price matching, it isn't like Walmart were they raise the prices and never have anything but shelf-warmers and figures with stolen belts
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Post by Pedigree on May 24, 2015 13:43:17 GMT -5
Yeah if a few of us wfigs members stop buying elites the prices will drop. Sure. Members here make up a very small portion of Mattels customer base. An even smaller portion of Targets customer base.
I'm no grammar nazi but this dude totally slaughtered the title of this thread.
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dodgerman
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Post by dodgerman on May 24, 2015 13:44:18 GMT -5
Saw it online yesterday, almost at the price where you only need to buy one figure for free shipping.
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Post by The Gang on May 24, 2015 13:53:55 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised that anyone would think that $20 is a lot of money in this day and age. I guess it might be if you are a minimum wage worker. But anyway prices will always rise, costs go up, wages go up, cost of materials goes up, always have, always will and companies need to make money or there will be no figures at all. Have you bought meat lately? Now that's expensive!!
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Post by Pedigree on May 24, 2015 14:00:18 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised that anyone would think that $20 is a lot of money in this day and age. I guess it might be if you are a minimum wage worker. But anyway prices will always rise, costs go up, wages go up, cost of materials goes up, always have, always will and companies need to make money or there will be no figures at all. Have you bought meat lately? Now that's expensive!! Completely agree. What's an extra buck or two? Not worth getting worked up over.
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Post by The Gang on May 24, 2015 14:05:07 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised that anyone would think that $20 is a lot of money in this day and age. I guess it might be if you are a minimum wage worker. But anyway prices will always rise, costs go up, wages go up, cost of materials goes up, always have, always will and companies need to make money or there will be no figures at all. Have you bought meat lately? Now that's expensive!! Completely agree. What's an extra buck or two? Not worth getting worked up over. It's true, we're talking about pocket change, these figures really cost very little, they're very affordable.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 14:15:45 GMT -5
Migrate to England and come back to us.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 24, 2015 14:19:46 GMT -5
Elites are 24.99 here in Canada. Don't you mean Elite 33 Cesaro is $24.99 here?? Ha ha ha. Ahhh that stupid Cesaro figure warming our shelves.
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Post by ARUN on May 24, 2015 14:20:52 GMT -5
Elites are 24.99 here in Canada. Don't you mean Elite 33 Cesaro is $24.99 here?? Ha ha ha. Ahhh that stupid Cesaro figure warming our shelves. Yup and it's funny, when the figure first came out I rushed to get it because of the andre trophy. Now there at least 30 around toronto warming the shelves.
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CrazyCanuck
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Post by CrazyCanuck on May 24, 2015 14:25:37 GMT -5
LOL Straight $25 here in Canada and they fly off of the shelves. Some people don't know how lucky they have it.
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Post by qdogg on May 24, 2015 15:02:36 GMT -5
They are 20.29 at my Target now and they still haven't had anything good in quite a while now
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mase307
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Post by mase307 on May 24, 2015 15:16:24 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised that anyone would think that $20 is a lot of money in this day and age. I guess it might be if you are a minimum wage worker. But anyway prices will always rise, costs go up, wages go up, cost of materials goes up, always have, always will and companies need to make money or there will be no figures at all. Have you bought meat lately? Now that's expensive!! Completely agree. What's an extra buck or two? Not worth getting worked up over. At what price would you or anyone think its too expensive to buy an elite figure? I saw the 20.29 price at my Target and saw 2 cases of the Elite 34 cena, reign, rollins, jyd case. I have a decent job, but the constant increase in prices at so fast a pace is really starting to turn me off from buying. Someone on this thread said that the wfigs community is such a small portion of who's paying for these. I beg to differ. Parents are not going to buy these for their kids. They will stick with basics. Maybe it's me but whenever I see kids in target, WWE figures is the least of the items I see kids with. I always see adults with the WWE figures. I just hope that Flashbacks don't get affected when Mattel realizes Elites aren't selling at the pace they want and they will need to cut back
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