These kinds of threads are never good. Cause sometimes what others mean are taken the wrong way.

 

Like how I have bought 2 Drifts and might buy a third. One is being displayed in Robot mode the other is still MISB. While if I do buy a third I will leave him in Vehicle mode. I really like the figure.

 

However someone could easily take it as I bought 2 extra to sell for more then what I paid and be called a Scapler.

 

I recently bought 3 legend Ravages so I could have kittens, there is nothing wrong with buying a bunch of the same if you like it. Its buying a bunch of the same to create artificial shortages and make a killing selling back to the online community.

lol a thread about scalpers is indeed a slippery slope towards lockage, and rants in caps is the snowball that starts the avalanche.

 

as much as i hate scalpers, i have to hand it to them, it takes serious hunting chops to get that figure before anyone else.

 

here's a thought, they wouldn't exist if it weren't for us collectors who feverishly clamor for the next new thing. scalping is a two way street, there's got to be a buyer or the cycle falls apart, if you've ever paid more than retail for an item, congratulations, you've just given a scalper a reason to exist. but hey, that's just my take.

Mine as well, I agree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I agree with you on this. I loathe scalpers as well and find what they do being unethical and wrong (this applies to all types of scalpers, not just toy scalpers). However, you got to hand it to them that they have the tenacity and the will to hit up stores on a daily basis to find the next big thing before everyone else does. I can only imagine how much gas they go through (as an environmentalist, this is probably my biggest pet peeve) to drive from store to store. I think if scalpers should be admonished, it should be that they are robbing these toys from the real buyers that these are intended for: kids. However, I feel 'adult' collectors fall in this category too.

 

In the end, I have never purchased a new toy from Ebay or a comic book store. So it's no big deal too me if people want to waste their lives making an extra dollar or two on the next big toy that everyone is looking for. Besides, the price markup is just not worth having that toy NOW. I have always eventually seen, or bought everything I wanted to buy at one time or another in the wild, so it really is all about having a little patience. The only toy that I have yet to see in the wild is TF: Animated Arcee. But meh...that's ok, I am not interested in the Animated line anyways. ;)

the thing is, we demonize them for being "scalpers", but in reality, they're the guy who got there first. i don't hate them but i don't especially like them in particular either.

basically, if you hate them so much, get better at hunting lol

 

i like that post lol

:lock

 

Some people just can't play nice together