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I have this figure. I bought it when it was 25 dollars, for MSRP. It is not worth a cent more. It is certainly not worth over 100 dollars.
In recent years scalping has increased rampantly and prices scalpers ask for have ballooned. To the point they disrupt the actual pricing of the figures from major retailers. To the point that said retailers have taken notice and decided to raise prices themselves automatically on some figures over MSRP to make added profit where they believe they can. You may have noticed this occurring online at various sites and it is a worrying trend of both individuals and companies taking advantage of the failures of market forces to keep lunacy in check.
Due to the seemingly limitless amount of rich individuals looming and perusing sites to buy action figures at wantonly obscene prices and/or people with more credit cards than sense willing to go into debt to acquire these items at such high prices, government regulation of the action figure market is needed.
I propose a law that firstly the official MSRP and release dates of any item classified as an action figure manufactured to be sold in the United States be required to be transmitted to the government of the United States and stored in a database indexed by their unique barcode. Secondly, any item classified as an action figure will be barred from sale for a price above that aforementioned MSRP for 6 months after its aforementioned official release date. Should any individual attempt to sell such an item before 6 months have passed for an amount exceeding said MSRP, they should be subject to a warning on first offense, then increasingly extreme penalties such that it would force compliance on subsequent offenses.
In recent years scalping has increased rampantly and prices scalpers ask for have ballooned. To the point they disrupt the actual pricing of the figures from major retailers. To the point that said retailers have taken notice and decided to raise prices themselves automatically on some figures over MSRP to make added profit where they believe they can. You may have noticed this occurring online at various sites and it is a worrying trend of both individuals and companies taking advantage of the failures of market forces to keep lunacy in check.
Due to the seemingly limitless amount of rich individuals looming and perusing sites to buy action figures at wantonly obscene prices and/or people with more credit cards than sense willing to go into debt to acquire these items at such high prices, government regulation of the action figure market is needed.
I propose a law that firstly the official MSRP and release dates of any item classified as an action figure manufactured to be sold in the United States be required to be transmitted to the government of the United States and stored in a database indexed by their unique barcode. Secondly, any item classified as an action figure will be barred from sale for a price above that aforementioned MSRP for 6 months after its aforementioned official release date. Should any individual attempt to sell such an item before 6 months have passed for an amount exceeding said MSRP, they should be subject to a warning on first offense, then increasingly extreme penalties such that it would force compliance on subsequent offenses.
