>>10889762Based as someone who collects more DC than anything made by Marvel but who is interested in certain Marvel characters and thus also collects them and search for both of these particular things both on sale and what's available, plus also what comes up for auction (and therefore potentially bargain prices) on say EBAY, McFarlane 'selling out' is a scalper/fake scarcity thing as per this anon
>>10889766>an artificial demand and also this comment, and in particular:
>>10889780>above all the price creepWith the MTS store, there's also the fact that they charge for shipping no matter how much you buy; if you were buying from say Game Stop or Entertainment Earth or didn't pay for Prime and were buying from Amazon, once you hit a certain amount, you would get free shipping - but never with Todd. So you pay more for your toys and you pay extra just to buy the toys from him, because he's not making them available.
But this will end up biting him in the ass, and is clearly doing so, thus all the reuse.
Some idiots will still buy but some of them are scalpers and you see this on sites like EBAY where people are posting marked up, scalped toys AND McFarlane
>>10889905>doesn't see any of that moneyPlus, DC isn't giving him this license to produce minimal toys and to make collectors (their fans) unhappy or annoyed, so this will ultimately hurt McFarlane's reputation as a toy manufacture and overall, it will certainly also do THIS:
>>10889905>Meanwhile selling less units actually does hurt profits>>10889908>He can say his collectibles hold the most value.Nah. Old DC Direct figures like this set still go for more than what they sold for by and large, save for dumb luck or badly conducted seller auctions.
Yes, people do try to scalp MTS toys but I still laugh and laugh when I search for a 'gold label' collectible that folks did speculate on and it's like someone trying to dump concert tickets at 9 pm outside the hall.
