>>8601694>Hasbro can sell $30 voyagers to Ollies for less than $5Ollies doesn't buy directly from the manufacturer unless it's defective/irregular
They're buying overstock/liquidation
I.e. They're not paying hasbro a dime, the company they buy from does.
Look, when you work at a big retail store, the internal inventory systems keep track of how much profit (for the store) and item makes.
The typical is between 10 and 30%
So on a $30 toy, that's saying $21-$27 went to hasbro AND associated costs, like shipping.
That's a big retailer who has their own shipping like walmart. If they are midsize or smaller they have to rely on outside shipping which costs more.
So on a $30 toy, hasbro could be getting as little as $18 dollars.
Then they have to take all of their costs out of that. What's left is profit. Most likely you're looking at $1-$5 dollars, depending on those factors.
Now, consider this.
The average number of voyagers a single target sells in a month is in the single digits. We've all seen the shelf warmers. Let's say it's a slow months and they only ordered 10.
10 bucks per target.
That's less than $20,000 per month.
For all us targets combined.
That means all of the US targets voyager sales combined for the whole year might net them less than 200k profit.
The smaller the item, the smaller the profit margins.
Hell, they probably lose money on battlemasters. They're just useful for creating a desire to buy more figures.
The real profits are leaders, commanders, and titans. But they sell a lot fewer of those, so the margins have to be bigger.
