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NECA has always been my go-to affordable provider of collectors items for some of my favorite films, characters, creature designs, etc. Like really high quality stuff and the best bang for your buck on the market by far, but the prices are simply getting insane.
Like out of control insane. I don't know whether it's due to tariffs or what, but in the past year and a half the prices have skyrocketed on this stuff so much that I can no longer justify spending the money on it anymore. Prices have jumped by about $6-$7 on most all of their 7" inch scale figures, whether they're ultimate or not. Single ultimate's are burgeoning on becoming relatively the same price as what two-packs used to be. The jump from my mental post-pandemic-yesteryear of retailing $27-$28 Ultimate's, with tax being somewhere around $32-$34 at checkout, are now retailing for $36 with tax taking me near, or over the $40 mark now. Since there has been no noticeable increase in quality or features from what I can perceive, I can't help but feel like I'm being scammed.
What once made NECA great in my eyes has since perished, and I know that many people here are going to disagree with me and that's okay, I truly feel like the best of NECA is now behind us. To be honest I've been out of the loop on all of the releases coming out, as well as this community and I just realized that I stopped caring about it because it doesn't make any sense to me financially whether I can afford it or not and it simply feels wrong. Without any sign in returning in full swing to their seminal brands like Alien, Predator, Terminator, Robocop and various horror properties that they continue to just sit on and not use to their fullest potential, not to mention all of the half-assed re-releases this past year, I now find very little initiative to continue to collect. With that I'm going to have to call it quits once and for all by saying goodbye to this hobby.
For the foreseeable future, this will be adieu.