Will secondary market ever come back down to earth?
Jul 13, 2020 11:48:43 GMT -5
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Post by PJ on Jul 13, 2020 11:48:43 GMT -5
I have no interest or need for another Gorilla. And although I have Harley I would buy another version or two of him.
There’s been plenty of stuff in other lines I collect that’s not in my collection because I didn’t find it locally. My rule is very simple when it comes to figures. If it wasn’t something I wanted enough to preorder and I don’t see it locally then I just don’t need it. I don’t care if I know it will be a future pegwarmer if it’s something I know with 100% certainty I want I preorder it. Everything else I buy locally and if I don’t see it then I just don’t get it, because it wasn’t something I wanted enough to preorder.
I’m not knocking you. I’m kind of envious tbh of all the stuff you seem to find
But when you say if you don’t find it you don't get it, or if you couldn’t preorder it. What if it was Sting or Orton or Triple H? Or Batman? You couldn’t find it and just say there wasn’t a preorder for it (which was the case forever with Mattel WWE). Do you just go without?
You have enough sense not to overpay crazy prices (as do I) but a lot of people don’t. That was my only point
I didn’t think you were. While I never missed a Mattel Sting I did miss out on a 12”(?) Toy Biz one because I decided to wait to find it locally instead of preordering it from RSC.
And Batman there’s quite a few.
DC Collectibles BtAS Clayface, Riddler, Man-Bat and the Montoya set. I had all preordered but canceled them because I was pissed with their QC issues. They corrected the QC by switching the brittle plastic, but unless they rerelease them they will never be in my collection now because of the outrageous prices now.
Matty Collectors DC subscription I didn’t do and decided to just order the individual figures when they went up. And because of their website issues during checkout I missed Poison Ivy and a couple others. But Poison Ivy hurt bad. Luckily JokerFC had a friend a count years ago who was moving and had one which he picked up for me as a gift. (Thanks again JokerFC that was greatly appreciated!)
Then there’s the Neca SDCC/NYCC DC sets I had all preordered with BIg Bad before the solicitations were canceled and made Con Exclusives. And I missed getting them at the con for various reasons beyond my control.
Finally Mezco one:12 BvS Knightmare Batman, NYCC Batman vs Black Mask and Special Ops Punisher all sold out while I had them in my cart checking out.
And other than the Neca NYCC Batman vs Joker Alien set all those are not in my collection because of the secondary prices people are asking. But I do know what you’re saying. And even I did it once (Fed a scalper) when I purchased the Neca NYCC Batman set from ebay for $30 more than it would have been at NYCC. But I figured if I had gone to the con it would have actually cost more than that because we would have had to pay parking and admission for both my wife and I. And we would have only been there long enough to get the Batman/Joker Alien and GL/Yellow Lantern Predator Along with the Mezco one:12 Batman vs Black Mask.