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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 11:21:10 GMT -5
so this week there's been an influx on these kane's on ebay and it's nice to see people scooped them up for cheap and are selling for at least 60$
Like someone else said on here 'people helping people' lol
As much as I bitch about mattel, it's the PEOPLE who make collecting loose it's appeal. I've said it before but I will NEVER screw anyone over on e-bay...and the prices of these figures most of which aren't even a year old (in some cases) are ridiculous...
This just bothers me - what are your thought on the scalpers? Just curious...
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Post by RollinsFan44 on Oct 10, 2013 11:31:54 GMT -5
Scalpers take the whole fun out of collecting to be honest. Makes it a helluva a lot harder for us collectors who don't try to make a ridiculous profit on their figures and just want them for the purposes of collecting.
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 10, 2013 11:39:42 GMT -5
That's the reason these were nearly impossible to snatch when ringside put them up. These losers buy them all up just to relist them on eBay for triple the price. It's getting to the point where scalping and stealing are so prominent that I want to just quit.
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Post by FFK on Oct 10, 2013 11:40:47 GMT -5
It's funny because some of them are members on here too.
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Post by gcreams on Oct 10, 2013 11:46:07 GMT -5
I sold my only Kane on ebay because I genuinely needed the money. I had a BOPPV Bryan that I could have easily sold on ebay for a stupid amount but instead I offered it up to anyone on here who wasn't able to get one. For no more than I paid for it. Not sure why I feel like I need to explain myself. It's people who spend hundreds on these figures who set the market.
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 10, 2013 11:50:01 GMT -5
Christ one seller has 4 and he's trying to get 125 bucks for each
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 11:53:45 GMT -5
To be honest, I don't care about scalpers.
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Post by PJ on Oct 10, 2013 12:01:36 GMT -5
I've said my piece about scalpers plenty of times in the past so no need to day it again. But they are only part of the problem. The bigger problem are the people willing to pay the scalper prices.
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Post by ClassicCollector on Oct 10, 2013 12:22:05 GMT -5
Christ one seller has 4 and he's trying to get 125 bucks for each And we all know that the seller of those is a member on here.....but hey, at least you're getting a 10% discount  |
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 10, 2013 12:27:53 GMT -5
Christ one seller has 4 and he's trying to get 125 bucks for each And we all know that the seller of those is a member on here.....but hey, at least you're getting a 10% discount Oh damn you're right didn't even notice that =/ |
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Post by nefud on Oct 10, 2013 12:28:41 GMT -5
If anyone's REALLY feeling bad about this I will gladly buy a loose RSC Kane for the original sale price.  |
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Post by RollinsFan44 on Oct 10, 2013 12:40:49 GMT -5
If anyone's REALLY feeling bad about this I will gladly buy a loose RSC Kane for the original sale price. Haha, nice try man  . |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 12:57:48 GMT -5
I've said my piece about scalpers plenty of times in the past so no need to day it again. But they are only part of the problem. The bigger problem are the people willing to pay the scalper prices. Loving all the reply's nice to know other feel the same way... But THIS I kinda have to take issue with. I mean how else am I supposed to GET a figure if I don't pay for it? I should just 'say no'? Come on that's kinda silly. Now I live in Canada - Ottawa Ontario, were the nation's capitol (the equivalent of Washington) and we get jack SH*T lol No Flashback Edge or Mankind or Nash or Diesel ALL the BIG BOYS THAT WERE THE MOST EXPENSIVE figs on e-bay. SO I had to buy them. When I first started collecting like 3 years ago (if that's right) with Legends Series 2 - that line was so bad that it sunk the franchise of ALL elite wwe figures for canada (it's only been since last x-mas that we've had a STEADY string of figures and not just the random leftover box from the warehouse. Jesus, last year I went to toys r us EVERY MONTH and only 3 TIMES in that year (excluding nov-x-mas) did I find elites and only 1 measly case at that. 300 plus days and I got to buy maybe 6 figures all year. Anyways, like I said when I first started I bought ALL the legends, ALL on e-bay and I got must for 20$ shipped (aside from the matty online ones)...now prices like that are IMPOSSIBLE. So if I gotta pay some outrageous price I will (sometimes but mildly outrageous) cuz that's what I gotta do. In canada we didn't get Mail away Vince. No mail-a-ways for us in canada. This has being going on since I was kid and the Super Powers collection had a free Clark Kent mail away. It's STILL not allowed here...I don't get that crap but anyways... SO last week I bought Vince for 60$ - and he was worth it. Awesome fig - BUT I still hated paying that much but it's what I had to. SOME OF US don't get the luxuries you US guys do. We in Canada only get elites at Toys R Us. YOU GUYS get to go to TRU, Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, K-Mart, etc, etc... I'm not trying to be a dick all btw, just trying to make my point that sometimes we just have to pay BUT RIPPING PEOPLE OFF as opposed to helping people is a TOTALLY different story. Like that's why I HATE ordering from RSC. They charge 28$ shipping for one fig to Canada. That's absurd. Matty only charged 8$. That's quite a mark up and I honestly don't care HOW MUCH FASTER it gets to me RSC - I'm not a baby, I can wait 3 weeks lol So one figure from RSC costs me almost 50$ when I COULD presumably get it in store for half the price (our elites here and 28$ roughly after taxes). Most expensive figs I've bought (and EVERYONE LIST YOURS TOO for sh*ts n giggles - although no one's really laughing lol) FB Edge - 70$ FB Mankind - 60$ (no box to boot and he came scruffed up. Had to take a mr. clean magic eraser to him and he looks great now. Try this if you need to take the back marks off your figs etc) FB Nash - 56$ no box, no belt - the belt was another 20$ separately FB Diesel 40$ loose, no belt TRU Vince 60$ TRU Jack Swagger 50$ (plus add to that the basic head I had to buy to swap out the garbage one he came with) King Booker 50$ every one else has been 40$ or under (mostly WAY under but still there's been a few 40$'s...) |
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Post by RollinsFan44 on Oct 10, 2013 13:06:55 GMT -5
The most I've spent is £52 shipped on a MOC Elite 12 Kane an it's pretty ridiculous that I paid that much because I could of picked around 4 of them up at retail for that price! But I was really desperate for him, so I had to do what I had to do.
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Post by champofakind on Oct 10, 2013 13:31:25 GMT -5
It sucks that this crap happens I hate it so much. When I put stuff up for sale I always start a fair price 5 to 10 bucks and kudos to those people that do. I hate the buy it now 59.99, 69.99 crap thats ridiculous..and for the most part they could be losing out because they don't have the crazy bidders going at it. It just ruins all the fun.
Most I spent on wwe figures have been on ringside and thats usually just like 30 to 35 bucks. Which I'm fine with because hell knows if I'll ever see them in stores. Theres only a few people/stores I buy from on ebay for wwe figs.
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Post by MELO on Oct 10, 2013 13:42:02 GMT -5
Scalper shave to inherently be collectors because how else would they know the value of the figures? And indeed most of these people are members on here.
I feel like something that contributes to this is when people post threads announcing figures are in stock. I get that they are trying to help other members, but they could most likely be helping out scalpels and lurkers. Take it to PM if you wanna help, certainly you have a specific person or friend in mind that would genuinely like a figure you come across in a great deal.
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Post by MrPerfect25 on Oct 10, 2013 14:40:12 GMT -5
As long as morons pay these ridiculous prices......there will be morons who sell them.
There are scalpers in any collecting hobby. Kind of makes ya feel good to have these figures at the prices you paid for them. Unless you are the formentioned moron.
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Post by PJ on Oct 10, 2013 14:42:58 GMT -5
There are ways around it. I have to deal with the biggest scalper site out there on a daily basis, because T0y W!z sends people to both Targets, TRU and WalMart every morning at opening to cherry pick the aisles. But how do you beat them easy you make friends I have a handful of friends where we help each other out for cost and shipping. And I have made connections at the stores I go to that hold stuff for me when they see it come in. So there are ways around it.
I have never fed a scalper. Nor will
I. And yes if it wasn't something I wanted enough to preorder and I don't find it locally...and if one of my friends have no luck finding it for me either then yes I just don't get it.
I am not going to feed a scalper when I have my own family to feed. I have 2 Kevin Nash figures and I didn't find either. One I got because I received a text from a KMart employee who took my information a few days earlier when I was looking for the cube. He text me at 7am saying he pulled a Nash off the cube for me so I went and picked it up that morning then that night the mailman dropped off a package from a friend in Buffalo who found one for me and just shipped it out to me before even telling me he found it for me.
Yes living in Canada or outside the US probably sucks for collecting in terms of availability of items, but again there are ways.
As for shipping there's no "markup" by RSC because they don't set their shipping rates. Shipping rates are determined by their carriers. Once RSC signed their contract with the shippers they are sent software with all the rates preprogrammed. RSC is a small company especially next to a company like Mattel. Mattel gets huge discounts in shipping rates because of how many facilities they have and the amount of volume they produce worldwide on a daily basis. RSC is a 1 building operation that has 1 pickup and 1 delivery a day so they get charged a higher rate.
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Post by MrPerfect25 on Oct 10, 2013 14:43:12 GMT -5
Scalper shave to inherently be collectors because how else would they know the value of the figures? And indeed most of these people are members on here. I feel like something that contributes to this is when people post threads announcing figures are in stock. I get that they are trying to help other members, but they could most likely be helping out scalpels and lurkers. Take it to PM if you wanna help, certainly you have a specific person or friend in mind that would genuinely like a figure you come across in a great deal. Very good point and I've said it all along. You don't even have to be a member do view threads. They need to change that. There's about 8 solid members who view/post my state's thread in the figure findings board. But god knows how many lurkers view the info we post on there daily. That's why a lot of us, if we find figs, hide them and have the members pm us to find out where we hid them. If we know you're not an assbag, you'll get an answer. |
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 10, 2013 14:43:59 GMT -5
Damn guys. 60 bucks for a loose mankind. I'll be selling mine in that case.
I paid 30 moc on eBay for mankind and regretted that when I saw him all over retail with the rest of e17. I paid 35 for e19 hbk when ringside first got them as a Christmas present to myself. And I paid 40 for a loose basic 27 ryback which I ended up finding in stores before the figure Even got to me.
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