>>8901364i think everyone understands what supply and demand is, but maybe they're saying that old toys today are going up in price when old toys from yesterday didn't? Because i've noticed this trend.
To give a clear example: MLs. Some have doubled/tripled their value in only a year, whereas before they could ahve sat around in stores like KB or TRU for years, sometimes even on clearance.
Then there's GI Joe, where the older wave figures went for MSRP for years afterward, until the line was finally killed and suddenly even the pegwarmers went up in price.
Since Corona, it seems everything is going up in value after a few months or even on their release dates.
I've regularly gone to nerd conventions for decades now and I've always been able to find old toys that i missed out for cheap (read: MSRP or below), because toys have always been pretty common to find in dozens of booths throughout the conventions. Even popular "rare" shit i could regularly buy below what you usually see on ebay.
With conventions being canceled and many nerd shops shutting down thanks to quarantines, ive been forced to buy online.
The conclusion i draw from all this: it seems like Corona has created a disconnect between supply and demand with consumers. Supply for toys has definitely not gone down, but because many consumers no longer see the physical supply because they no longer go to stores as much as before, they believe that there's less supply than there actually is. So they're more likely to pay up scalper prices or artificially inflated prices.
I've seen the inflated prices happen with electronics too and it makes me think there's some retarded algorithm going on. There's this audio company that recently put their midtier subwoofer on clearance, which was replaced with a newer better subwoofer. Once most of old subwoofers sold out a few stores raised their prices on the clearanced subwoofer ABOVE the price of the newer better subwoofer AND uppertier subwoofers. WTF.
