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Post by disorder on Jun 8, 2018 11:46:59 GMT -5
This isn’t wwe specific or any company specific, but...
What is the frequency of your figure buying? Is it everyday? Once a week? Few times a month?
Lurking through all the boards on here, it seems some people buy a figure a day or hundreds of dollars in preorders a month. I’m curious to see what people spend on every like they collect and how often they spend it.
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Post by alanpartridge on Jun 8, 2018 11:49:46 GMT -5
I buy a few a month. I've bought 3 figures in the past two weeks. EG Roode, E59 Angle and Elite Boogeyman. It depends on what figures are available and how much free cash I have.
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Post by K5 on Jun 8, 2018 12:31:54 GMT -5
never. lost interest in them more than a decade ago.
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Post by Sting on Jun 8, 2018 12:32:41 GMT -5
Depends. Over the last 3 months I’ve probably bought about 70. I had a lot of catching up to do. Now I’ll only buy one or two a month.
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Post by Stuart? on Jun 8, 2018 13:13:52 GMT -5
Very sporadically. Maybe like 4 or 5 over a period of 3 months. Depends on what I'm after and what local stores have in stock.
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Post by ahunter8056 on Jun 8, 2018 14:04:12 GMT -5
Honestly, I just buy the odd figure from NECA a couple of times a year. I only buy figures as display pieces for favourite fictional characters. After stopping buying WWE figures a good 7/8 years or so ago, I used to buy 1:6 scale Doctor Who figures from Big Chief Studios, but due to a lack of space, drop in quality, long production time, and poor customer service, I no longer buy from them.
Now that the main line of NECA figures I used to buy (Heroes of the Storm) has since come to an end, it looks like I won't really be buying anything else in the future, unless a line I have interest in is announced.
I did buy NECA's new Half Life 2 Gordon Freeman figure this week, and am somewhat tempted to buy the upcoming Crash Bandicoot NECA figure. I also bought the complete set of WWE Retros Series 3 this week, due to my interest in the WWE Mayhem mobile game, but given that it looks like the line is dead in the UK, with Series 3 the last to be sold in the UK, it doesn't look like I'll be buying anymore of them.
Tl;dr: Only a couple of times a year.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 16:34:35 GMT -5
Few times a month.
Lately I've been buying more funko pops.
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Post by PJ on Jun 8, 2018 17:03:29 GMT -5
It depends I can go weeks without buying something but then there’s times when everything seems to come out all or in stock (preorders) at once. Few times a month. Lately I've been buying more funko pops. I just canceled a bunch of POPs that I had on preorder.
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Post by 235guy on Jun 8, 2018 17:09:06 GMT -5
I buy more frequently online but not much at stores.
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Post by snatch on Jun 8, 2018 18:31:12 GMT -5
Never. I came across this board googling ”wwe autograph signings” a while back. I barely watch the product anymore.
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Post by Crossfit Jesus on Jun 8, 2018 18:49:14 GMT -5
Too often
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jun 8, 2018 20:07:22 GMT -5
I’d go months w/o buying. Just this month I bought the most figs at once, 5. Now I try to buy 2 figs a month.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jun 9, 2018 0:01:16 GMT -5
It all depends what's out at the time I been buying a lot lately with TRU's cheap prices and figures ending up at Marshalls and places like that. I been buying a lot more Pops lately too because its a lot of stuff out that I'm interested in and a lot of good exclusives not counting since IW came out I been getting into Marvel Legends. So its been pretty rough on my wallet lately especially with SDCC coming up.
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Post by Darkhawk on Jun 9, 2018 0:23:02 GMT -5
Depending on what figures are available. I usually buy 1-2 figures every 2 weeks depending on how much cash I have.
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Post by LA Times on Jun 9, 2018 17:12:57 GMT -5
Depending on what figures are available. I usually buy 1-2 figures every 2 weeks depending on how much cash I have. Exactly the same thing here. If you include online purchases, every 2 weeks on average, similar to how I get my paychecks.
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Post by TOOxSW33T on Jun 9, 2018 18:51:36 GMT -5
Depends. i only buy Orton and Bàlors so when a new Orton or Bálor comes out ill buy it.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Jun 9, 2018 20:42:52 GMT -5
Due to the cutback of elite flashbacks in the line,.. I’ve only bought hoc Eddie and Virgil and that’s all this year. Last year all together I think I got 10 figures or less and all the previous years were 25+ per year. I didn’t choose to stop buying, Mattel stopped caring about me.
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Post by bad guy™ on Jun 10, 2018 7:50:02 GMT -5
Funkos? All the time. WWE? Bought my first one a couple of weeks ago for the first time since Mattel took over the contract.
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Post by Escape The Rules on Jun 10, 2018 9:33:23 GMT -5
Now it's literally when new the new ones that I want are in my local store. I bought absolutely tons throughout last year after starting my new job, but now that I'm all caught up I haven't bought one in just over 2 months. Just waiting on the new stuff being in stock.
I as a kid I used to go to town with my dad every week for a new figure on Tuesdays. I kinda brought back that old tradition last year for a while and even called it Figure Tuesday.
So it went from being almost every week last year to a 2 month drought this year.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 9:47:17 GMT -5
I'd be out KB and T'RU hopping every chance I got in the Jakks days. These days it's every now and then,if I happen to see something I like,such as Undertaker or Bret or Warrior. I think about getting a figure fed going again,but I'd have to buy all the ones I had. I do regret selling them on eBay.
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