Ok, I just started collecting Figuarts and Figma, ordered a bunch of figures of ebay and won a couple of auctions. So far from what I can tell I've been careful enough to avoid bootlegs.

These came in today, looked them over and they seem authentic. got the sailor moon for $25 plus 5 shipping, came with extra hands other then what is normally included and the crybaby face plate with was only available with the original release ..as extras thrown in by the seller. The Bluma, Mars, and Imposter Sailor Moon (Zoisite) was new and never opened. So far each figure has been under $35 shipped, got Mar and Imposter SM off Amazon, and SM and Bulma off Ebay.

Still to come is, Jupiter (won in auction for 45, Mercury, and super Mercury (bought on accident thinking it was the original), Venus, and Tuxedo mask (who was only $20 in auction which I won, (seller mentioned it was missing one of the extra hands and the legs were a little loose, but Tuxedo Mask was overall good quality..and this is the same seller and the one who bought the SM figure off of which was legit..so here's hoping its good)

As for Figma, I ordered a used Hatsune Miku 014, and Haruhi Suzumiya 002,

and finally ordered a body chan figure, think its a bootleg but really don't care on this one since it was only 8 bucks.

These are my first figures and the ones pictured are what has come in so far, just got them today.

so what am I getting myself into??
Really wanna collect all the sailor moon figures first, then work on dragonball, only problem i forsee is a lot of the older figures are way high in price, and bootlegs are everywhere, and on some of the higher priced figures like android 18, I'm just debating buying the bootleg instead..are they decent enough?