>>6238561>Is it just me or is the market dried up?Older ones may be a bit higher but its buyers demand that drives up the prices, you want a rare one, saw some supposed babe chromed AOE figures for fucking thousands of dollars on ebay, mp's retain value but people are selling themselves short, its how I'm getting mine cheap.
>Are these cheap eBay listings from China bad quality KOs or are these just factory thefts that happened to have the occasional bad QC?Bit of both, when you read the listings sometimes they mention they are ko's, there are outright fake stuff and people have complained about even knock off cw shockwave figures, boxed and all.
If you're that worried stay away from Chinese sellers
>maybe I shouldn't go back to buyingThen don't, this year is expensive for me with mp megatron 2.0 and trypticon
>worthless gestalts>Superion, Menasor, and DevastatorI'm guessing these are unite warrior sets, superion is one of the better ones in terms of qc and design, menasor is shit design wise but individually his components are fine and people have mixed feelings on devastator, I'm personally fine but would of liked him smaller
>I want Hasbro Defensor and Bruticus, & a Computron. and G2 MenasorHasbro defensor ain't bad but finding a cheap cw groove (as in the deluxe) can be tough depending on budget range plus his leg ratchets have him leaning all the time, no idea if the UW had that same issue but wouldn't surprise me, hate the fact hasbro bruticus has a repainted slingshot as a standing for blastoff (even though I bought 2 for a custom gestalt) so ended up pre-ordering the UW baldigus set (because his body is rotated so no fat shuttle belly), I would reccomend the UW computron but he flew out the fucking door so fast...but the hasbro one is no doubt on clearance in most places.
g2 menasor would have the same issues as the one you have with weaker plastic tolerances, I know g2 silverbolt's fist can snap off the hinge