>>8781348Distributors:
- lie about product/assortment
- deliver months late or short you
- charge fees for cancellations, even ones that are there fault
* like when I had 4 orders across 4 cards (prices escalated way faster than my limits) get munged onto 1 card and the super charge was declined
* or when 6 months of perpetually delayed orders came due THE SAME DAY and they refused to wait overnight while my card issuer batch processed payments
- mystery shipping or "consolidation" charges
- EED undersells your wholesale price from their retail side
- margin was _barely_ enough to break even before online sales tax
Toymakers:
- here's another Ryu, Data, MMX, Subzero, etc....and we're done
- here's another Ryu, Data, MMX, Subzero, etc....and we're done
- here's another Ryu, Data, MMX, Subzero, etc....and we're done
- toys that finally start selling at MSRP get reissued and price craters again
Venues:
- table fees exploded, sometimes because more days and sometimes just because
- another day meant 100% more cost for 10% more traffic
- liked shifting setup from early morning to night before, costing more hotel fees and more time off real (paying) job
- some started charging full freight for helpers and even for (((chairs)))
- don't do show shorter than 10 hours (waste of time)
- scout show beforehand (too many Pop/HotWheels/junk shows)
Customers:
- but Ollies/Ross/BigLots! but my empty Walmart/Target!
- please hold this while I go to the ATM and never come back
- cancelled preorder, chargeback on "non-refundable" deposit
- you should carry X even though I won't buy it
- I know it shows I signed for it but I totally didn't get it and want a refund
- Amazon "appeals" are a second robot confirming the first robot's verdict
Tell your brother to back out while he still enjoys collecting because he won't after he's gone through this hell.
