>>7999628>>7999694You want to know the best reason NOT to buy online? It has nothing to do with fun, price, or anything else like that. Imagine the following scenario:
>Be a Transformers collector.>Go to the store looking for a specific figure.>They have four in stock! >The first has the paint smeared off half its face and only one eye filled in all the way. >The second has chips of paint missing on every corner of its chest and visible stress marks around several of its pins. >The third has crooked tampographs and what appears to be the fingerprint of some factory worker imprinted into the leg paint. >The fourth has a couple mildly sloppy paint apps, but is otherwise fine. >Buy the fourth and thank your lucky stars you didn't order online, since there would have been about a 75% chance you'd end up with a crap figure. Hasbro's quality control is terrible. Figures are more likely than not to have major flaws in them, so if you want to make sure you get one that doesn't suck, you need to buy IN PERSON where you can look at the figures to decide which one to purchase. The only three good reasons to buy online are if (1) the figure isn't sold in stores because it is an exclusive only sold online, in another country, at a convention, etc, (2) it comes in a box with no window to see the figure, such as Siege Jetfire or titan class figures, or (3) you live in an area where it is physically impossible to visit a store that sells transformers.
And don't give me any crap about how you can just fix bad paint apps and flaws by painting the figures yourself after you open it. 99.999% of figures painted up by fans to "improve" them look like turds. You may think your figures are an exception, but chances are they're not. When people compliment them by saying they look good, what they usually mean is by comparison to how much worse other fan-made paint jobs are.
If you don't want a crap figure, buy in person, not online.
