>>10610802>There's no reason it should be ordered in smaller quantitiessure there is: direct market stores don't order as many figures as walmarts/targets do, hence indie stores usually charging more for an ML than a walmart/target/kmart does.
There's such a wide gap in sales between budget children toys and direct market collector toys that collector toys from Diamond/NECA/Mezco/DCD/McFarlane/Palisades/SOTA went from being $3-5 more than shit found in target/walmarts/TRUs to now costing $10-25 more. They don't sell in high volume to keep prices low, so every little increase in the cost of oil/materials/labor/shipping kept being added to the price. You see the same with Japanese collector toys going from $22 to $60+ in only 10 years.