How did reselling season go for everyone??

lmao best part of being a pc player is watching all the consolers fight for new gen scraps

No one cares

One of us used technical skill and ingenuity to build a gaming pc for less than $300 that could easily rival one for 3k and the other paid for at least 5 gaming systems, not counting previous gen but yes, the joke is surely on me here  

Scalping to arguing to PC gamer gatekeeping

What a joke

I've seen too many arguments over scalping/reselling in my far-too-long history as a figure collector, but I'll say this, because it came up briefly: buying something off a shelf and reselling it is not the same as selling older toys or any other product that has long since left the mass market. There's a lot of aspects of the older collectible market you can criticize -- the outsider speculation, its use in money laundering, the scam inherent in the whole grading system -- but it's a different thing.

That being said, buying up mass market stuff is an inconvenience for other collectors, but what bothers me much more is when companies release extremely limited runs of certain products to foster an air of exclusivity and don't put enough controls on the buying process to allow many people to get them directly. Someone reselling a toy they bought at Target doesn't frustrate me nearly as much as a company like Mondo releasing an absurdly limited number of prints that get sold out 2 minutes after they go on sale. (Also, Jazwares's chase structure is similarly inconsiderate towards its own customer base. I can't possibly say enough bad things about that aspect of the AEW line.)

Oh, and I'm still kicking it old school. REFURBISHED ATARI 7600 MOTHER ERS!

I purchased a second New Generation playset with the sole intent of selling the individual pieces off to cover the total cost and essentially get the one I'm keeping for free. Wonder what people think about that because to me there is a big difference between investing in a preorder that everybody had access to and raiding Target shelves on a regular basis although I'm sure some may not see it the same way. Zero regrets here.

And as much as I don't approve of scalping, are you really telling me that if you walk into your local retailer and see two Harley Race figures on the pegs - assuming you want to own one and realize its value - you're not grabbing them both in a heartbeat? Find that hard to believe.

I own maybe 15-20 wrestling figures total so not even a huge collector and have never sold any figure online either. Just want to keep a healthy conversation going and see if we can all recognize that there is definitely a very gray area in the aftermarket arena.

there is definitely a line between being smart or advantageous of a situation and being something else that nobody likes. You know the guys who call ahead and find out when the shipment is then buys the entire stock making it a monopoly and then reselling at absurd prices only because they hold the entire market. Both are intelligent but one is a very poor thing to do morally. Different strokes for different folks as its not illegal. As far as figures go, I think the only ones I ever considered buying a second one of just based on their future monetary value was the Magnum TA fig and the Defining Moments Sting which I still have in MOC although I am a loose collector. 

In my opinion, the time aspect is the most important part of it all. Sitting on something for 30 years and then selling it to a new market is weird, but I do think there’s merit to it in a way of maintaining pristine items for people who collect that way. It’s not unique to the toy market either. In that situation, those people would be considered “investors”.

But scalpers are all about the *now*. Buying brand new stuff and getting the most they can for it from unlucky or impatient people. That’s the crappy practice. They don’t want to sit on stuff for years because the likelihood that something better might come out and diminish the value of what they’re holding goes up as time goes on. You see it in other groups, like with TMNT, for example. People complaining about NECA or Super7 rereleasing the turtles because now the “value” of the ones they bought *to scalp* is going down.