>>8459477....you can't scalp something everyone has the same access to. Scalping isn't just the reselling of a product, it's the denial of access to a product with the intent to resell. You have to actively reduce the opportunity of others to get an item for it to be considered scalping. People who are buying KS and Haslab items with the intent to resell are doing the exact opposite as if they didn't buy them there would be less of the product in existence.
>>8459501I don't remember that at all. The general consensus I remember when the Cookie Monster thing launched was that it was a sacrificial lamb designed to scare TF fans into jumping on Unicron after seeing a Haslab project actually fail.
I honestly don't think there's much crossover between hardcore TF fans and hardcore Sesame Street fans to the point where people would be torn between Cookie Monster and Unicron. The problem was there just wasn't enough hardcore Sesame Street fans...over the age of six...to fully fund Cookie Monster.
>>8459522Dude, that's not scalping. That's literally reselling, it's what every store does. Buy directly from the source, sell at higher price for profit.
What you're talking about is a late tax, you missed out on the sale of something and have to buy it second hand. Case in point, a figure I bought for 60 bucks a few years back can go for 200 now. If I resell that figure for 150, that doesn't make me a scalper.
