Good Way to Make Money?

The MSRP for figures is definitely NOT a mark-up of 200%. I'd say the stores maybe make $1 at MSRP, that's why most all of them are higher.

I don't know about MAKING money, but a good way to save money is to split cases. A bunch of people I know do that, they'll order a case and go halves or whatever. Sell off the extras they don't want or won't use, and don't wind up paying ridiculous prices for those "first in the line" figures.

Yeah I've put 2 and 2 together and seen members on ebay too.

And you are right about mattel and their guidelines on becoming a vendor. Guy that owns a collectibles and comic shop in my town said the amount of cases they make you prebook isn't worth it in his case.

Buying cases is a good idea if you and a few others go in and split and sell ones you don't want. Also you can take back reys/cenas/ortons to target with out a receipt and they'll give you sale prices back for them. Good idea for collecting, not for making money

Yeah target has a limit of $100 in a year, but between me and my two buddies we rotate who takes back.

It would take you a long time to profit, and you'd have to buy mass quantities and need a guaranteed super-quick turnover.

If you thought of doing it in a premises; rented, that would cost you an amount monthly, then your packaging to send the figures out in, ie boxes/padded envelopes, then you have things like labels to write addresses on, your actual postage to send stuff out (if you offered a service to send figures out) It's pretty much next to impossible to profit easily and you'd need years and years to do it as you'll pretty much also need a guaranteed audience and a consistent audience so keep buying from you.. like most said, you'd struggle to sell a lot at full retail prices and just sell the one per case/first time in the line figures either at retail/just over. It's far from worth the bother or I and the majority of money makers would have done it.

Best of luck if you try it, but I hope you have a lot of money to waste!!

You are really missing a lot of details on how much you're actually paying per figure. Yes, you buy for $4 and sell for $10. You receive $6 to begin the process.

Now you have to take out rent of the land where you're selling said product. The larger the building the more you pay. Let's say there isn't a bathroom, so no plumbing costs, but you have to pay for electric to light those big KB Toys signs on the front of the building. You paid someone to design and build those signs. You have to let the locals know you sell toys, so you pay a newspaper/tv commercial/radio to advertise. Do you take credit cards? You have to pay to insure those transactions against identity theft and fraud. Oh, and YOU have to be paid to stand around and sell those toys all day, or you pay someone else to do it when you're not there.

Now tell me how much that $4 figures costs. The profit comes close to $1 or less per item, I promise you. The larger the company you are, the bigger the discount you get when purchasing in bulk, but since it's almost a crime to be successful anymore you now have to pay even higher taxes and lose that benefit.

With razor thin overall margin you have to do a ton of volume. That's RSC's model.

You are better off selling Jakks UFC figures, young entrepreneur. You would be making a six-figure salary and wont be stuck with unsold Cenas, Mysterios and Ortons.