nomorexclusives
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Post by nomorexclusives on Dec 3, 2024 1:35:26 GMT -5
Zombie is giving out free loose figures to any order of $120 or more including people who placed orders in the days prior. I think with everything I own, I would have struggled to get up to $120 and would have bought things I didn’t necessarily want or need…but it’s a good deal for loose collectors playing catchup. Nice catch. Id be interested but loose figures are selling for about 10-15 recently so still makes more sense to wait. Ebay is flooded with these and that will only continue as resellers try to dump them before their values decrease even more next year. Even dino bravo went from 60 to 40. They definitely made too many of these. I'm glad some of the earliest series are still around but definitely not caving till these prices drop more. Mattel is selling them for 5 bucks a pop now (black friday) and those have actions too. It is obvious they are trying to maximize profits but they have to understand that we see that as "nickel and diming". Some may call it greed but regardless people are choosing to buy figures from zombies competitors instead. Nothing zombie offered has sold out. Zombie has no reason to rush to sell these as they can just hang on to stock and sell trough slowly for years to come but i would imagine overstock/lack of space being an issue at some point. Either way this was a good gesture on their part and shows they realize their sales werent enough to get us to buy but it really isnt much of a discount compared to what epic is doing. I am not familiar with the scale of operation differences between the 2 companies other than seeing zombie print 1000's of cards on a printing machine but if zombie wants to stick around they will need to scale down operations and keep up as competition is growing fast. Having been the first on the scene to compete against mattel was not easy and they have produced a lot of great figures but i fear they will not be able to pump these out fast enough to satisfy people compared to these other companies with a faster turnaround. They must have a lot of extra funds to be able to pay for all that storage space. Hopefully they start adapting to this new competitive climate. I feel they lost a lot of would-be-customers this black friday by not discounting more. I really like their work and hope they stick around as competition ultumately makes products better. 2025 is going to be a great year for both these companies and collectors. |
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kojikanemoto
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Post by kojikanemoto on Dec 3, 2024 7:23:19 GMT -5
None of us have any idea of how his business is doing. And he said from the beginning that he will sell regular release figures for as long as he can.
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Post by taserface on Dec 3, 2024 7:43:04 GMT -5
Zombie is giving out free loose figures to any order of $120 or more including people who placed orders in the days prior. I think with everything I own, I would have struggled to get up to $120 and would have bought things I didn’t necessarily want or need…but it’s a good deal for loose collectors playing catchup. Nice catch. Id be interested but loose figures are selling for about 10-15 recently so still makes more sense to wait. Ebay is flooded with these and that will only continue as resellers try to dump them before their values decrease even more next year. Even dino bravo went from 60 to 40. They definitely made too many of these. I'm glad some of the earliest series are still around but definitely not caving till these prices drop more. Mattel is selling them for 5 bucks a pop now (black friday) and those have actions too. It is obvious they are trying to maximize profits but they have to understand that we see that as "nickel and diming". Some may call it greed but regardless people are choosing to buy figures from zombies competitors instead. Nothing zombie offered has sold out. Zombie has no reason to rush to sell these as they can just hang on to stock and sell trough slowly for years to come but i would imagine overstock/lack of space being an issue at some point. Either way this was a good gesture on their part and shows they realize their sales werent enough to get us to buy but it really isnt much of a discount compared to what epic is doing. I am not familiar with the scale of operation differences between the 2 companies other than seeing zombie print 1000's of cards on a printing machine but if zombie wants to stick around they will need to scale down operations and keep up as competition is growing fast. Having been the first on the scene to compete against mattel was not easy and they have produced a lot of great figures but i fear they will not be able to pump these out fast enough to satisfy people compared to these other companies with a faster turnaround. They must have a lot of extra funds to be able to pay for all that storage space. Hopefully they start adapting to this new competitive climate. I feel they lost a lot of would-be-customers this black friday by not discounting more. I really like their work and hope they stick around as competition ultumately makes products better. 2025 is going to be a great year for both these companies and collectors. You could say that about 95% of Mattel WWE, 99% of AEW figures. If someone wanted to wait a year or two after release to pick them up, you can get them 50-75% off. Maybe he needs to change his little thing to ‘Not Available’ instead of saying ‘Sold Out’. But I like the fact that most of these ZST are available indefinitely. I got in late, and have been able to get all I wanted easily, minus Jarrett A majority of people on this board, do not need to talk about overpaying at first, as much as I see ppl paying to get items first and preorder on here. At least his prices stay around the same price, maybe dropping $5-$10 here or there |
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nomorexclusives
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Post by nomorexclusives on Dec 3, 2024 9:00:12 GMT -5
Nice catch. Id be interested but loose figures are selling for about 10-15 recently so still makes more sense to wait. Ebay is flooded with these and that will only continue as resellers try to dump them before their values decrease even more next year. Even dino bravo went from 60 to 40. They definitely made too many of these. I'm glad some of the earliest series are still around but definitely not caving till these prices drop more. Mattel is selling them for 5 bucks a pop now (black friday) and those have actions too. It is obvious they are trying to maximize profits but they have to understand that we see that as "nickel and diming". Some may call it greed but regardless people are choosing to buy figures from zombies competitors instead. Nothing zombie offered has sold out. Zombie has no reason to rush to sell these as they can just hang on to stock and sell trough slowly for years to come but i would imagine overstock/lack of space being an issue at some point. Either way this was a good gesture on their part and shows they realize their sales werent enough to get us to buy but it really isnt much of a discount compared to what epic is doing. I am not familiar with the scale of operation differences between the 2 companies other than seeing zombie print 1000's of cards on a printing machine but if zombie wants to stick around they will need to scale down operations and keep up as competition is growing fast. Having been the first on the scene to compete against mattel was not easy and they have produced a lot of great figures but i fear they will not be able to pump these out fast enough to satisfy people compared to these other companies with a faster turnaround. They must have a lot of extra funds to be able to pay for all that storage space. Hopefully they start adapting to this new competitive climate. I feel they lost a lot of would-be-customers this black friday by not discounting more. I really like their work and hope they stick around as competition ultumately makes products better. 2025 is going to be a great year for both these companies and collectors. You could say that about 95% of Mattel WWE, 99% of AEW figures. If someone wanted to wait a year or two after release to pick them up, you can get them 50-75% off. Maybe he needs to change his little thing to ‘Not Available’ instead of saying ‘Sold Out’. But I like the fact that most of these ZST are available indefinitely. I got in late, and have been able to get all I wanted easily, minus Jarrett A majority of people on this board, do not need to talk about overpaying at first, as much as I see ppl paying to get items first and preorder on here. At least his prices stay around the same price, maybe dropping $5-$10 here or there No doubt but when after-reseller prices on ebay are lower than retail even on black friday than that is a bit of a disconnect. Again, its great that we can all catch up, i am still far behind with these like yourself but on black friday i had some choices to make and epic simply had the best deals bar none. I could buy from zombie directly for 5$ more and feel good supporting them but the added uk shipping prices are the killer. Hopefully one day these will be more available in the states. For the time being it makes more sense to buy them on ebay. |
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kojikanemoto
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Post by kojikanemoto on Dec 3, 2024 11:36:34 GMT -5
You could say that about 95% of Mattel WWE, 99% of AEW figures. If someone wanted to wait a year or two after release to pick them up, you can get them 50-75% off. Maybe he needs to change his little thing to ‘Not Available’ instead of saying ‘Sold Out’. But I like the fact that most of these ZST are available indefinitely. I got in late, and have been able to get all I wanted easily, minus Jarrett A majority of people on this board, do not need to talk about overpaying at first, as much as I see ppl paying to get items first and preorder on here. At least his prices stay around the same price, maybe dropping $5-$10 here or there No doubt but when after-reseller prices on ebay are lower than retail even on black friday than that is a bit of a disconnect. Again, its great that we can all catch up, i am still far behind with these like yourself but on black friday i had some choices to make and epic simply had the best deals bar none. I could buy from zombie directly for 5$ more and feel good supporting them but the added uk shipping prices are the killer. Hopefully one day these will be more available in the states. For the time being it makes more sense to buy them on ebay. Zombie’s or Epic’s? Epic’s are available from FC Toys and Asylum wrestling shop in the US. You don’t have to buy them from the UK |
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nomorexclusives
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Post by nomorexclusives on Dec 3, 2024 12:50:54 GMT -5
No doubt but when after-reseller prices on ebay are lower than retail even on black friday than that is a bit of a disconnect. Again, its great that we can all catch up, i am still far behind with these like yourself but on black friday i had some choices to make and epic simply had the best deals bar none. I could buy from zombie directly for 5$ more and feel good supporting them but the added uk shipping prices are the killer. Hopefully one day these will be more available in the states. For the time being it makes more sense to buy them on ebay. Zombie’s or Epic’s? Epic’s are available from FC Toys and Asylum wrestling shop in the US. You don’t have to buy them from the UK Zombie of course. Epic is more flexible. |
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