Toy prices aren't going down at the same rates they once did--the sales are miniscule now. And the MSRPs they start at are higher than ever. What strategies are you employing to mitigate this? I tried checking Gabe's and Ollies but Gabe's had nothing and Ollies has nothing new since 2023. It seems like they have totally dried up and wherever overstock Hasbro product goes, it isn't there.Are there strategies you've found successful beyond just the usual clearance chicken which doesn't work on popular or highly desirable figures? Patterns or specific stores that tend to be best for the lowest prices?
go to online store and move price slider to 20 bucks. buy what i like thats under 20 bucks or nothing at all.
Find a different hobby. I was going to suggest video games but the consoles/hardware/AAA game prices for those are fucked as well.At this point may as well take up painting or something.
Man, remember The Coupon? Hasbro treated us good back in the day.
>>11856247I mean, she still sold out everywhere so can you blame them?
>>11856247How old are you
>>11856247Been waiting for discounts for 10 years. I dont buy ML, Joe or Transformers as much simply because I dont like them that much at any low price>>11856303Gamepass, PS Plus, Netflix and Luna are good ways to sample/collect anything without spending a lot. We're losing physical, but that wont be hard on us in 1.5 years
>>11856247now THAT is the Playstation mascot worth $50
>>11856247Don't buy slop like that thing you posted and instead save your money for something good? Seems like a sound strategy.
>>11856247They blame material and distribution costs when oil goes up, but never lower the prices when oil comes down. You can also thank scalpers and others who didn't hesitate to pay that price to validate it. >I tried checking Gabe's and OlliesThere's Ross, but scalpers hit there to hoard up cheap inventory to sell online for double the price. It's because of them that Classified figures went from $5 to $10 at the beginning of the year because Ross figures that if scalpers are still making money, then there's room for Ross to charge a higher price. >>11856503>Playstation mascotShe debuted on the PC and Saturn, bro.
>>11856503No hasbro figure is worth $50 by their design and engineering alone
I'm just buying less. Man Fuck Trump, Democrats, China and Iran.
>>11856583I'm hoping some third-party toy-maker will make "sort-of-Lara" figures that are more in tune with the various versions of her from the 1990s because after seeing the Michael French video, it's easy to see that CD is always going to block any efforts to get those out officially. Classic Lara built the fanbase, but in spite of that they want her dead and replaced.
>>11856678Also fuck collectors who bid up the price by doing shit like making a high-priced pre-order sell out in a matter of seconds. It's their fault too.
Should I get her? Never played Tomb Raider don’t know or care about the character but I might play the remake game and if I like it and want a figure, I’m worried this will be more expensive and hard to find later
>>11856692It's just the pre-order that sold out. They'll make as much as they can sell to make as much $$$ as possible. It's entirely possible we'll have a "Cold Slither" situation where the initial pre-order sold out fast, but then they over-produced it to where it was hard for them to clear out, so prices had to be lowered. And I'd recommend with the original CORE Tom Raider games form the 90s, or the "remaster set" from last year.
>>11856247Try to earn more money. Get a 2nd/3rd job, take some night classes and look for a promotion, work overtime, setup an ebay account and sell old stuff, create a social media account and try to monitize.Basically hustle until the higher cost of living doesn't hurt as much.
>>11856703Toys are not part of the cost of living, bro. They're a luxury indulgence for adult collectors. They're selling Lara for well above the $27 price for a regular retro-card figure. That's bullshit, but it's been economically validated by how fast it sold out. I'm gonna wait for the general release to see if it knocks down in price after sitting for a while, or maybe consider buying one on Ebay. Sometimes scalpers fuck each other by flooding the market to where no one's selling until someone brings down the price.
>>11856692If you don't care about the character why buy it?
>>11856696Why didn't they make more of the lizard baf rerelease, that sold out fast and never was back in stock for long
>>11856717Yeah anon but it's a hobby. It sucks that prices are going up but it's not like we can pretend that the closet of everything hasn't skyrocketed on the last five years. This isn't exclusive to Hasbro or even toys. So I don't understand why this board pretends it is. It's shitty but nothing is gonna change until the people in power are no longer in power. Too bad the vast majority of people are too stupid or lazy to do anything about it. I admit I'm the latter.
>>11856703You remind me of PC gamers who simply say "GO BUY MORE CAPACITY">>11856717>Sometimes scalpers fuck each other by flooding the market to where no one's sellingI got Rattler Baroness that way. Sellers sat on it at $150 for months, and I jumped on the first guy to list it at $120 BIN. >>11856720Classified would be bankrupt and discontinued if it relied solely on those who knew and liked the characters from the cartoons, comic books, and whatever. Sometimes people seeing something they just think looks cool lures in new fans. I got lured into Final Fantasy that way. I saw a figure in Toyfare magazine I thought looked really cool, bought the boxed set it came in, got curious, bought the game, played it, liked it, bought more Final Fantasy games, and I've been a FF fanboy ever since.
This woulda been cool at the normal GI Joe classified price, but at nearly 50 I'm gonna pass. Like even 30 or 35 woulda been fine, but there's a point where you gotta say nah, I'm good.
>>11856724>we can pretend that the closet of everything hasn't skyrocketed on the last five yearsPhone-posting with auto-correct, eh? At least locally food prices have come down a bit (for the most part). The government not allowing Shawanda to buy junk food with EBT has also brought down the prices of junk food. And ever since Trump began deporting the people who bid up the cost of housing, the cost of rent is starting to come down. The cost of land in rural areas has also come down wih the high price of gas because sellers know they need to lower prices if they want to attract people to buy land in rural areas while factoring in $4/gallon prices.But toys won't come down. Even when oil prices do eventually come down, toy-makers never respond with lower prices.
>>11856735He will never dump in his diaper and give it to you. You don't have to suck him off.
>>11856738This is an 18+ board, kiddo.
>>11856735>Phone-posting with auto-correct, eh? I'm on my tablet. I haven't turned my PC on for the day yet, I've got some chores I need to do first, I'm just pooping and enjoying my morning coffee. >At least locally food prices have come down a bit (for the most part)Lucky for you. By me, my grocery bill keeps going up while I keep making consolidations on my purchasing habits. If I'm not switching to the cheaper off brand item to save a buck or two, I'm just outright skipping the item altogether. Food prices I feel like are out of fucking control right now. >The government not allowing Shawanda to buy junk food with EBT has also brought down the prices of junk food.That's well and good and all but I'm paying like $8 for a pound of Kroger brand 80/20 ground beef. I don't really see much saving if the candy I buy once a month is a dollar cheaper when the meat I buy to feed myself every night costs $4 more than it used to. >And ever since Trump began deporting the people who bid up the cost of housing, the cost of rent is starting to come down. Excuse me? The cost of renting has skyrocketed on my area. The apartment I used to pay $1200 a month for back in 2017 now costs well over $2K a month. That's not even getting into the fact I paid $950 when I first moved in that place back in 2011-2012ish. I bought my house at the end of 2024 and it's already shot up in value like $30K on value just by me living in it for the last year and a half. >The cost of land in rural areas has also come down wih the high price of gas because sellers know they need to lower prices if they want to attract people to buy land in rural areas while factoring in $4/gallon prices.I don't know enough about this to weigh my opinion in either way. But I'm doubting it. >But toys won't come down. Even when oil prices do eventually come down, toy-makers never respond with lower prices.You're actually living with your head in the sand if you think this is exclusive to toys.
>>11856742I live in Texas which is ranch and farm country. I'm paying $4.50/pound for 75/25 ground beef while the 90/10 is $7. The apartment complex I live in had half the residents disappear almost overrnight as soon as Trump started deporting, and all over the city apartment compelxes are offering specials for new move-ins along with slightly-lower rent. They had gotten real used to staying full courtesy of open borders. Even house price are dipping. A couple of years ago $160k bought you this:https://kixs.com/video-a-350-square-foot-160000-tiny-home-for-sale-in-san-antonio/Now the same money in the same city buys you this:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/438-Avant-Ave-San-Antonio-TX-78210/26134412_zpid/
>>11856690This too. The recent Ninja Force sellouts piss me the fuck off. I've been in the Joe Fandom for over 20 years and all I heard is how the wacky 90s bullshit ruined the line. Now It's all selling out? Where were all these Ninja Force fans when I was being dogpiled on HissTank, JoeBattlelines and TNI for liking that shit.And don't get me started on all these "Lifelong" Street Fighter fans who only played Street Fighter 2.
>>11856756I live in Arizona. Wish I could say I've seen the same as you. If anything, I don't think they're deporting enough.
>>11856761When it comes to "old school" ARAH collectors you have the gen-X collectors (1982 through 1987) and the millenial collectors (1988 - 1994). The millenial collectors like more gimmicks, bright day-glow colors, and wacky vehicle designs while gen-x overall seems to prefer characters and vehicles more rooted in some degree of realism. Gen-X collectors don't seem to like the later stuff as much except for maybe the Alley Viper. The Gen-X collectors did dish out a lot of shit to people for liking the later stuff without caring that that's the stuff a different generation of kids grew up with and have sentimental attachments to.
>>11856764>I live in Arizona.I've been there. Phoenix is nothing short of hell on earth during the summer. I don't get how anyone can live there.
>>11856690I saw this in real time last year with shit like that Psylocke/Thanos set and the Lawson Turtles. It's not hard to be a scalper when every moron with a Instagram or Reddit account can't shut up about wanting them. It artificially increases demand because even people who only kind of want it or have a Tiktok or YouTube toy review channel will throw in with a preorder just to see what hype is about. The same shit happened to the Storm Arena Street Fighters and that bootleg Rebecca.
>>11856766That's true. I remember back on the original Fwoosh board, when X-23 and the Young Avengers sets came and all these jackasses came out against them saying only popular characters should be Legends since it's like a Hall of Fame or lifetime achievement.
>>11856768You just don't go outside during the summer. It's going to be like 114 today. I'm about to go mow my lawn. Wish me luck bros.
>>11856678If you're really mad about that Lara, be mad at the dick holes running Hasbro.
>>11856777It's not them. Go watch the Retroblasting video on this very subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GhS0cydowULicensing fees are always high, which is why the Super7 figures are $25 each. Throw in Crystal Dynamics driving what was once one of the most valuable gaming properties in the 90s into the dirt with their woke bullshit. CD needs money, so they're gonna take all they can get. And fans validated it with it only taking seconds to sell out the pre-order, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's another Ghost Viper situation where the regular release gets nudged up by another $5 just because they can.
>>11856787>the regular release gets nudged up by another $5 just because they can.Didn't hooded CC with throne get nudged up in price halfway through their pre-order sales?
>>11856787Crying Dynamics is forcing Hasbro to raise prices on non-Lara Joes?
>>11856803*CRYSTAL* Stupid autocorrect That is funny, though. Lara couldn't shut the fuck up during that entire trilogy.
>>11856803No. Their licensing fees are responsible for Lara costing $44 for a figure that should cost $27 along with all the rest of the regular retro-card figures. What I said is that when given the pattern I wouldn't be surprised of they raise the price even higher for the regular release because they've done it before.
>>11856808>Lara couldn't shut the fuck up during that entire trilogy.And they completely missed two key aspects of what made CORE Lara so awesome: isolation, and being a tough girl who can handle it.
>>11856696Yeah the fact that she's not exclusive to one site makes me think it shouldn't be that hard to get later>>11856720I usually don't but feel like I will care in the future and don't want to regret skipping the figure
I think she’s great, tons of accessories, 45 is fair, just stop being poor
>>11856828I like her. It's just $42 from Hasbro should get you more. An extra grimacing head, those sunglasses, maybe a shotgun.
>>11856810I can understand that. I've heard some companies are even worse. There's a reason you never see Grand Theft Auto merch.
>>11856812There's scenes in both the original series and the LAU trilogy where actual child Lara is holding it together better than Survivor Lara. I say this as someone who likes the Survivor Trilogy.
>>11856851The way to make it right is less nu-Lara gear and more OG-Lara gear. >>11856859young CORE Lara makes nu-Lara look like a crybaby whiner.
>>11856742It's no use. If the senile old rich man who keeps enriching himself and his buddies tells him the sky is macaroni, he'll nod and clap and say yeehaw.
>>11856756>I am the no wars guy, the most no wars guy of all time in a row for sure!>I will lower prices!>Starts a war>Skyrockets pricesI'd respect you people maybe a little bit (I wouldn't.) if you just had the balls to say you wanted a rapist pedo asshole as a leader. Though seeing you all defend the current situation is absolutely hilarious so keep it up, please.
>>11856828and I think hasbro toys are objectively terrible value for the money they cost and I say this as someone who routinely buys $300+ import figuresyou do you lil guy
>>11857056>you wanted a rapist pedo asshole as a leaderYou democrats did that. Biden and Clinton are out of office now. And you undermine our civilization because you object to Trump putting a stop to over 50 countries dumping their overpopulation baby-factories and gang members into our country. >Starts a war>Skyrockets pricesIran is that country that sends faggots like you flying off of rooftops, and executes women for being whores after they're gang-raped. They've caused massive droughts and famines with their mismanagement, and before the war they brutally killed tens of thousands of innocent people who were trying to revolt. It had to be dealt with sooner or later, and if it were Ukraine you'd be supporting the effort. But hey prices for your toys that rose in prices anyway went up, so boo-hoo. >>11857057The worst value for the money is the Square-Enix figures. They run up to north of $100 each for figures that aren't any better-quality than the Hasbro stuff. Square-Enix pushes and squeezes its fanbase harder than any other company out there. Even the $44 retro-card TR figure is mildly-priced by comparison.
>>11856732Normal classified price is just 2 bucks from 30 now. Hasbro has really crept up on us. They seem to be content with raising their prices to only target people who will buy figures with no upper limit on cost. Then as more people get choosier about purchases they need to raise the price again to compensate for selling to less people.
>>11856303>At this point may as well take up painting or something.have you seen the cost of art supplies?
>>11856770Why do people who only kind of want something pay over 60 bucks for it? Seems kinda crazy to me. Fomo is real I guess.
>>11857109This is what makes me lol at all these people bitching about the price of collecting toys. Comparitively, to my other hobbies, toy collecting is the relatively cheaper thing I do. My other main hobby is guns and those can costs hundreds or thousands of dollars, let alone the price of ammo. Spending a few hundred bucks on toys every few months isn't going to break my bank.
>>11856787Since 2019 I have literally never seen that many action figures anywhere but Ollie's and a legit toy store (with scalper prices). Walmart and Target are near empty.
>>11857081Nah prices are up everywhere. Dunno what koolaid you drank, but pass that shit bro. >>11856741That's why Dumpy won't thank his little henchman on here. The age restriction is just too damn to find any of his "type".
>>11857129>Just gobble up the higher prices and thank our Orange lord for it! No, I don't think I will.
>>11857135If that's what you took away from what I said, then you are in fact, retarded, because that's not at all what I said. Stop making up arguments in your own head just to get mad at you mentally deficient little goblin.
>>11857140>he say thing me angyAwwww, I sowwy.
>>11857141>These people are allowed to votescary
>>11857149I'm sure only the 1% would be able to vote if it wasn't so hard wired in the constitution if it was up to you guys.
>>11856247???https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mega-Man-4-Ice-Man-Action-Figure/5279757923?classType=VARIANT&athbdg=L1400&from=/searchi bought an ice man figure for $10, you just need to stop buying FOMO shit and preorders and prices will come down
>>11856247In my country, unless it's an exclusive figure, general release figures tend to go down in price after a while. So if it's a general release, all i have to do is wait. And I'm also a very picky collector, so i don't really buy much
>>11857165>niche character from a niche franchise is the same as one of the most wanted characters in recent yearsIt must be hard for your parents to have a child this retarded
>>11857173must suck to be retarded enough to follow the other guppies on the most popular things instead of thinking for yourself eh
>>11857181I’m shocked your own argument went over your head, shocked
>>11857181Bodied that freak
>>11857130Their distribution sucks. A few stores get the entire inventory meant for all stores. They blame the customers for it, saying that they drop sending given brands to certain stores if customers aren't buying enough of it at those stores. >>11857131>Nah prices are up everywhere.It sucks where you live because where I live prices for a lot of things have come down. Some things like toys are still high, though. >>11857165Sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't. There are figures that are sold out gone before they ever stood a chance to end up on clearance, so that's the risk you take.
>>11857173>Lara Croft>one of the most wanted characters in recent yearsCalm down there buddy, she's a desired figure but she's not THAT desired.
>>11857229You don't know the TR fanbase. All we've ever gotten since the very beginning is shit figures. The fanbase has been screaming for years for good figures with good articulation and details, and it took 30 years to get one. That's why it sold out in seconds even at the bullshit price.
>>11857232Because the TR fanbase is tiny compared to most others. it's a good game series, but holy shit, chill your nuts.
>>11857243>Because the TR fanbase is tiny compared to most others.It is NOW after the woke crap, but the original TR fanbase is still very much there. They're even keeping the torch lit by making new TR games set in the classic style using the TRLE engine that came with the PC versions of the original games. That's why Crystal Dynamics reluctantly gave in with a remaster of the CORE games while making nu-Lara look more like classic Lara
She's up on Amazon.
>>11857285>woke crapYou're so cute. But like, in an aw it's a pedo protector kinda sad pitiful cute instead of like a puppy.
>>11857388Wokeness collapsed a whole lot of properties, including Tomb Raider. And Trump's no pedo and you know it. You're just grabbing onto anything you can to justify your hate because you're fucking pathetic.
>>11857285I played 2/3 of the Survivor games and I don't remember woke shit. Granted it was like a decade ago.
>>11857425Making Lara shorter with smaller boobs and more "vulnerable but brave" was all about a woke re-defining of her.
>>11857431So... Just some made up nonesene you came up with in your own head then? Did you even play them. Post your playtime.
>wokeI thought the issue with those games was that they felt more like torture porn in putting Lara through the wringer instead of making her kick ass.
>>11857561They quite literally were, the new upcoming games have a quick fade-to-black whenever she gets mulched. Even in the follow-up games to 2013, half of the time she's just getting the shit kicked out of her in weirdly erotic ways, like that one time where she gets chokeslammed and practically orgasms on the way to unconsciousness.
>>11857444Have you seen her? It's very apparent, especially in Shadow where she's somehow shorter than most native South Americans.
>>11857582She used to be 5'9", but they reduced her height to 5'6", but at the same time, they also scaled the world and enemies to be a lot bigger to emphasize stealth mechanics so she comes off as 5'2" instead.
>>11857582>>11857602You're trying way too hard. Try the Survivor games, they're fun. Different, but fun.
>>11857411Lol he's absolutely a pedo you blind twat.
>>11856247I don't hate it, but I really wish they based it more on her og design, or at least added her sunglasses.
>americans complaining about prices againI'd like to remind you that it's worse everywhere else.
>>11857880Buddy I hate to break it to you but in the Marvel general theres still people who say Marvel Legends should still be the $7 they were in 2002 so you're in the wrong place if you think people here consider anything except their own memories
>>11856247I don't buy or collect toys. I come here to watch people who do and read the conversations.
>>11857388>>11857411I truly wish for both sides of this retarded discourse to die of ass cancer.
>>11856316I could ask (you) the same question.
>>11857795Nope. Your Epstein release found nothing. IF there ever was anything on him, then Obama and Biden would have used it years ago to stop him instead of sealing everything away to protect all the democrats in the files.
>>11856717>Toys are not part of the cost of living, broIt's all relative. As much as I would have considered $27 a lot for a figure 10-20 years ago, I just walked to the grocery store for 2 bottles of their cheapest red wine and a pack of 12 toilet rolls and it cost me $40, so now $27 for a figure I'll still have a week later doesn't seem like a lot.
>>11858999They sell very few at $27, though. Why sell a figure for $27 when you can stuff it with more accessories and sell it for $40?
>>11858999>I just walked to the grocery store for 2 bottles of their cheapest red wine and a pack of 12 toilet rolls and it cost me $40I hope they were big bottles at least, otherwise you were robbed.
>>11859013Welcome to the world we live in now. I've been saying for over a year that everything is so expensive now that toy prices seem to be relatively the same in comparison to everything else also going up. But this board likes to pretend this is happening exclusively to toys and that whichever company they hate the most is deliberately doing it out of greed. It's abundantly apparent who pays their own bills around here and who still lives with mommy and daddy and the ones pretend price increases are exclusive to toys is the latter.
>>11856247>What strategies are you employing to mitigate this?Raise the rent.
>>11859013They were just standard 750ml bottles. $14 each. And oh, I was mistaken, it wasn't 12 rolls, it was a 9 pack for $12. So over a dollar a roll. The family will get through the lot by Monday, but my figure will bring me hours of joy. There's just no point in complaining anymore.
>>11859016No, dude. I'm literally saying anon overpaid. I live in one of the highest cost of living areas in the country and could've gotten two sizeable bottles from a wine store for like $12-15 each and a twelve pack of toilet paper for $5. But if you don't think many toy companies are also taking advantage of this situation to jack up prices more than they actually need to, you're out of your mind.>>11859020>I was mistaken, it wasn't 12 rolls, it was a 9 pack for $12. So over a dollar a roll.Jesus, man, what the hell sort of toilet paper is this?https://www.amazon.com/Scott-Comfortplus-Toilet-Tissue-Double/dp/B07BGLT25K
>>11859017
>>11859013$40 for even one bottle of wine is still cheap.
>>11858986>ReleaseYou call that blacked out mess a release? Are you mentally well?
>>11859024>twelve pack of toilet paper for $5The cheapest pack I can find at Kroger is at least $7. And that's for the single ply sandpaper for a scratchy ass hole. Regular toilet paper costs like $11 for a 12 pack. I call bullshit. >But if you don't think many toy companies are also taking advantage of this situation to jack up prices more than they actually need to, you're out of your mind.Your $5 12 pack of toilet paper just outted you as someone who doesn't even go to the grocery. It doesn't cost that, and I my state isn't one of the highest cost of living areas in the country either. You're full of shit. Also>ScottThat will literally chaff your ass hole. Sorry, but I'd rather spend $12 for 9 rolls than $5 for 12 sandpaper rolls.
>>11859096>Your $5 12 pack of toilet paper just outted you as someone who doesn't even go to the grocery. It doesn't cost that, and I my state isn't one of the highest cost of living areas in the country either. You're full of shit.I literally linked to a toilet paper pack for $5. How the fuck's it my problem that you don't like the brand? I can find similar prices or slightly more in my local Key Food. Moreover, this isn't even standard scott, it's a version known for it's softness. If you're chafing your asshole with it, that's a you problem. And if you're consciously spending more for fancier toilet paper, then don't start bitching about the prices.
>>11856247I only buy the things I'm interested in from properties that matter to me
>>11859136>This cheap $5 toilet paper is totally just as good as the regular stuffI know for a fact you're wrong.
>>11859088Thank the democrats in congress who insisted on clearing everything before it was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm62zZKZEdQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBMvvyauJ3Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCOat8ZEFjk>>11859142And Tomb Raider is interesting to a whole lot of people. It's like Star Wars in the sense that the fan base is much larger than it appears to be because it restrains itself to avoid buying into the "modern audience" crap. And it really is a let-down with knowing that Crystal Dynamics will never allow classic Lara in all of her outfit variations to see the light of day in figure form. Nevada Lara would have been so perfect for the crossover line, as would Thames Lara. But the company is owned and ran by people who actually hate Tomb Raider, and want to reinvent it to suit their narrow views of the world. Never mind they've been hurting for money for years while they openly refuse to give the customers what customers want to give them money for. They've hit the re-set button, and are remaking the classics to make the whole thing revolve around nu-Lara.
>My globohomo parasite circus is better than your globohomo parasite circus!Reject the left-right dichotomy and embrace antisemitism.
>>11859151As always, there's a Funko Pop!
>>11859459or TUBBZ
>>11859459They should at least bring back the statues. It's better than nothing.
>>11859166Based.
It'll never happen, for obvious reasons, but I would totally genocide indigenous folx for an Amazing Yamaguchi Classic Lara Croft.
>>11859471There are.
>>11861215
>>11859151Anon, who's in power and doing the redacting? Who bragged about going into the dressing room of an underage beauty pageant since he ran it? Your guys a diddler, man. If you're into that well ew but you do you I guess.
>>11859024>https://www.amazon.com/Scott-Comfortplus-Toilet-Tissue-Double/dp/B07BGLT25KNTA but this is discounted, and this link is not 'your local Kroger' or 'Albertson/Safeway/Von's/Publix/Wix-Dixie' so does it really apply?
>>11861215>>11861219Ok but where are my triangular boobs?
>>11861477I dunno, you didn't seem to have a problem with diddlers when it was your guy in office. And you still haven't produced an iota of proof about "my guy," just repeating the same line ad infinitum. But hey, maybe that'll work out for you this time.
>>11861219>>11861215>Crystal Dynamics There's something that sits wrong with me with knowing that the company that sank Tomb Raider and caused a $300 million loss for Square-Enix the previous owners was able to find investors to buy it from the same people they created a huge loss for. So now the people who fucked up the franchise for the previous owners now own it. If I were an executive for Square-Enix I'd be questioning whether or not Crystal Dynamics deliberately sabotaged the property so they could take it.
>>11861491Considering more people order from Amazon than shop at any of those places, which also have their own sales/discounts, I'd say it applies. Especially since local store prices vary by location. The point wasn't that prices on everything aren't going up because they obviously are, just that $12 for 9 rolls is on the higher-end.
>>11861726>more people order from Amazon than going to the local grocery storeHoly shit, just how out of touch are you?
>>11861817A lot of people have gotten real used to living their entire lives by internet-order. It's sad, really.
>>11861858>>11861817I don't even know how that would work given perishables.
>>11861817Beyond tired of you deliberately misinterpreting what's being said. If your anus is really so delicate, get a bidet like civilized folk. Otherwise, enjoy your overpriced toilet paper and fuck off already.
>>11861881Same-day delivery. If it's available locally then WalMart and local grocery stores can have your groceries delivered in as little as one hour.
>>11861881At least as far as Amazon goes, the order gets put together in a warehouse and then picked up by the driver like an hour before delivery.
>>11857232I fail to see the problem with this classic Lara figure. What more do you need?! I even had to buy a second one because the first one got... too sticky.
>>11856247waiting
>>11862582It looks like Lara's retarded cousin playing dress-up in her clothes
>>11862929just like modern Lara
>>11861726Out of touch much?Not getting out of the basement much?Go touch some grass, zoomzoom.And if you're an actual adult with a real, not gig or shit job, Jesus H. Christ, this explains a lot of what is wrong with many non-boomers.
>Samefagging barely literate trolling retard just sings the same song over and over againSwear to god this is the last time I try to help someone save some money on anything here. This board just gets worse by the year.
>>11862984There are multiple people telling you that you're out of touch if you think more people use Amazon than a grocery store.
>>11863009>There are multiple peopleSure there are, champ. And apparently neither one of them practices reading comprehension because what I said was more people shop at Amazon than any of those specific stores. Which they do. There are 15.2 million Amazon orders per day. Kroger's is by far the biggest of those chains and has 11 million customers online and in store per day. I didn't say or imply more people shop at Amazon than grocery stores collectively. More importantly, it shouldn't matter if it was some little niche shop. The point from the beginning was to offer an alternative to $12 for 9 rolls that was accessible to everyone to someone who was griping about prices, which no longer mattered once he/you admitted to being aware of the alternatives even at Kroger for $7 but not being satisfied with them.Now, I'm seriously done with this aimless conversation.
>>11863035>And apparently neither one of them practices reading comprehension because what I said was more people shop at Amazon than any of those specific stores. Which they do.This is untrue and if you honestly believe this then you are the most out of touch individual I've ever seen.
>>11857964Same, but it's all the material they have for their reddit/tictoc cult schtick.
>>11856247I shop more at toy shows. No, seriously. Love or hate McFarlane DC, I've picked up alot of local no-shows and online insta-sellouts for retail or at most a $10 premium. Less so with Hasbro stuff, only because preorders for that stuff aren't such a pain. The prices are still good, I just don't need extras of anything I could preorder.All that's slowing me down is that I'm often trying to sell down old inventory from when I was legitimately trying to run a shop at these shows. When I can't sell much, it means I have less money and less room for purchases. The show I was at last weekend was positively abysmal. I paid $150 for two days and barely broke $200 in sales. The bulk of that was a GIJoe Classified Snake Armor set. The rest was assorted junk I was selling for friends. Middle market (modern boxed $25-$50 "collector" lines) and high end (HasLabs and such) were dead.The same show last year brought in almost $900 so this year was a huge drop off. I have a one-day coming up that wasn't anything to write home about last time so I'm trying to keep expectations low. Then a few weeks later my biggest, and last, show of the year. Then nine months of nothing because fuck if I'll give eBay 30% to get lowballed or robbed and B/S/T forums are even worse.I've almost saved up enough to make my own figure, maybe with a little crowdfunding to push it over the edge, and I think that's a better option than begging bottomfeeders for a few nickels on increasingly expensive Hasbro stuff.
>>11863555What type of figgy do you want to make anon?Also good luck for your upcoming show.
>>11863073Bezos makes a billion dollars a day because of lazy people who have normalized internet-buying absolutely everything instead of stepping out into the real world. I'm not like that at all and think that making your life too dependent on a technocracy isn't a good thing, but it's the end result of two generations raised on life with Internet at the heart of their existences.
>>11856303>At this point may as well take up painting or something.>He doesn't know how expensive quality paints and brushes are nowLol. LMAO. I remember when I got my first Winsor & Newton brushes for like $2 each at Michaels. Its crazy that even the student level brushes are like $10 each now.
>>11856703>Just work more for less bro!! Especially when new toys are worse and worse quality!!
>>11856303Toy collecting is one of the cheapest hobbies out there. You're in for a rude wake up call when you realize the barrier to entry for most hobbies is several hundred dollars at minimum.
>>11863724>Toy collecting is one of the cheapest hobbies out there.Not even close to true unless you're talking about generic Japanese blind-box stuff. Scalpers have fucked the market for everything else including trading cards which should be the cheapest collectible stuff out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTMDXVusrUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3raWcSRUs
>>11863769If you're buying toys retail, then yes it's still one of the cheaper hobbies available. I'm sorry, but $27.99 for a Marvel Legend or Star Wars Black Series figure just isn't a lot of money in 2026. Sure, I would've had a heart attack if you told me we'd be paying that much for toys back in 2005, but with how expensive everything else is, I could fart away $30 and not even realize it. Time change boyo. Get used to it.
>>11863769>links videos of Americans show casing how much of a third world shit hole it issucks to be you, my hobbies are safe here
>>11863775Hasbro rarely sells at that price. They prefer $40+ for a deluxe figure or $60+ for a 2-pack.
