>>14224148>OnlyNo. They might contribute, but consider the following tidbit.
Donki opened mail-order for those Hololive plushies, and they themselves stated "Demand was far greater than expected". This is with the intention of filling out all orders, so scalping really not so much of a concern there since scalpers rely on scarcity to drive their sales, and if the company is going to mass produce with no limit on the max orders they're taking, scalpers pretty much give up the ghost in these sorts of cases.
Suffice to say, Cover appears to have been pretty conservative with most of their merch projections thus far.
