>>6837643My point wasn't that I scalped and was entitled to a premium. It was that if making a buck at semi-wholesale was a non-starter, then even _higher_ costs couldn't possibly work.
>>6846062>Then why do so many people do it?Do you think many are actually doing it? I can plug "hot" toys into eBay and be lucky to get a dozen listings for them. A nation of 330 million and only 12 are selling something on eBay? Amazon sometimes fare better (because they transfer from Amazon proper to FBA instantly) but still not like thousands of scalpers are scooping up the toy you can't find.
Even at toy shows here, stuff doesn't move at a dollar over retail. I saw the Cyclops/Phoenix ML set go untouched at $45. Same with the bikes that just got released. By the time you walk out of a store, they cost $43. Now you're paying a hundred bucks or more for a table. And you can't get TWO DOLLARS on something TRU may have gotten 4-8 of per store? If you scalp the entire allotment of 3 stores, you won't even pay half of your table back.
Not that you can't make money, sometimes, but almost never enough to make it worthwhile. The NES Classic, if you could find it, was one occasion, because like the Wii, normies jumped on that en masse. Toys...no. People just get confused when they see toys for MSRP. It's a "literally Hitler" exaggeration. Toys selling for MSRP are often sold by dummies who thought a wholesale license and an eBay account could build a business. Been there, done that, and it really can't. The "scalper," if he even exists, can cherry pick from retail. You, no, you take the entire case of shit and drown in it.
Price too high, you don't sell anything because $1 over retail is Hitler AIDS rape. Price too low, and your garage looks like TRU's shelves, stuffed with Beetles and Speed Demons and Zuvios and Jyns you can't even give away.
