>>5692864>Then how come SDCC exclusives always get scalped in the aftermarket? Obviously there's a demand for such things beyond the con-goersBecause people are morans.
There's a lot of times when something doesn't sell out at the convention and the company is left with unsold stock, especially last year.
>This is exactly artificial scarcity.That's stupid. That's like saying everything has an artificial scarcity because they don't account for bumfucknobody#45 who is complaining on /toy/ that he didn't get a chance to order a toy that's 5 years old.
What part of "can only be sold at the con" can't you understand? They can't account for everybody and are themselves limited, so they only focus on what can be sold at the convention.
The complaints here makes it sound like they're doing it on purpose cuz "hurr hurr they want to feed scalpers"
>Webstore exclusives, or even limited runs with preorder sessions would solve all this problemsFucking dumb and requires over a year to be done, but then fuckbummer#45 didn't know about the year headstart to account for the preorders and cries about "artificial scarcity" once they're released.
Just so you know, the vast majority of collector toys do not sell out and those that do take months to do so. Plenty of time for anyone to buy their figures, which is why no one does something that complicated. This applied so much to last year's SDCC exclusives.
Again, these figures are limited to SDCC. Sucks for you if you can't go. You need to stop crying. Either find a middleman or learn that the world isn't fair, because there's nothing else you can do about attaining awesomeness.
