heelshaun
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Post by heelshaun on Mar 27, 2024 18:55:35 GMT -5
These shipping immediately? Should, deliveries are expected early April. Appreciate it.
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czw4life
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Post by czw4life on Mar 27, 2024 21:02:16 GMT -5
3bay is flooded with them already lol
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Post by shanieomaniac on Mar 28, 2024 0:05:55 GMT -5
Let's only make 3000 Malaki figs even though his original Supreme was gone instantly and his 1st reg figs are also gone instantly. Like seriously they probably would have sold out on twice that number. Instead we have 30,000 kingstons in every Walmart across America. I am trying to stay positive about this line but man they really don't make it easy. And Malaki is already showing up on mercari for 70. That is actually far less than I thought they would start popping up for. I actually sat down with my friend who has a degree in business law and tried to hash out the logistics of Jazwares business model for AEW figures. Why they would do things like make ftil figures chase only, why they would flood the stores with unwanted exclusives but never stock anything else, and why they have made an entire, high-demand figure line in very low numbers, when all of the above are essentially sold for the same price at retail and none of the secondary sales that those chase and rare figures bring are ever seen by Jazwares. Business Law guy said that either they A. don't care about the line and are trying to tank it intentionally so they can focus on their true moneymakers like Squishmallows, without worrying about any repercussions from breaking a contract, or B. there is shady ish going on where the people making the figures ARE gaining extra money from the chases, it's just being kept off the books, or C. A combination of the two that involves taxes tomfoolery. Because yeah, from a strictly business model perspective, what Jazwares, a supposedly experienced company, is doing makes zero financial sense. But the money never lies so one way or another, Jazwares is making more money by keeping the numbers low than it is from making the figures available to the public easily. However that works out.
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Post by rkmo: Just a Fact of Life on Mar 28, 2024 0:18:33 GMT -5
Lol
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Post by dpd1967 on Mar 28, 2024 1:12:32 GMT -5
Let's only make 3000 Malaki figs even though his original Supreme was gone instantly and his 1st reg figs are also gone instantly. Like seriously they probably would have sold out on twice that number. Instead we have 30,000 kingstons in every Walmart across America. I am trying to stay positive about this line but man they really don't make it easy. And Malaki is already showing up on mercari for 70. That is actually far less than I thought they would start popping up for. I actually sat down with my friend who has a degree in business law and tried to hash out the logistics of Jazwares business model for AEW figures. Why they would do things like make ftil figures chase only, why they would flood the stores with unwanted exclusives but never stock anything else, and why they have made an entire, high-demand figure line in very low numbers, when all of the above are essentially sold for the same price at retail and none of the secondary sales that those chase and rare figures bring are ever seen by Jazwares. Business Law guy said that either they A. don't care about the line and are trying to tank it intentionally so they can focus on their true moneymakers like Squishmallows, without worrying about any repercussions from breaking a contract, or B. there is shady ish going on where the people making the figures ARE gaining extra money from the chases, it's just being kept off the books, or C. A combination of the two that involves taxes tomfoolery. Because yeah, from a strictly business model perspective, what Jazwares, a supposedly experienced company, is doing makes zero financial sense. But the money never lies so one way or another, Jazwares is making more money by keeping the numbers low than it is from making the figures available to the public easily. However that works out. Iβve noticed alot of figures on the bay and the sellerβs seem to have a few each for sale. One seller had 6 another had 4 another had 5 and another had 6. How are they managing to do that.
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Mar 28, 2024 2:54:30 GMT -5
Let's only make 3000 Malaki figs even though his original Supreme was gone instantly and his 1st reg figs are also gone instantly. Like seriously they probably would have sold out on twice that number. Instead we have 30,000 kingstons in every Walmart across America. I am trying to stay positive about this line but man they really don't make it easy. And Malaki is already showing up on mercari for 70. That is actually far less than I thought they would start popping up for. I actually sat down with my friend who has a degree in business law and tried to hash out the logistics of Jazwares business model for AEW figures. Why they would do things like make ftil figures chase only, why they would flood the stores with unwanted exclusives but never stock anything else, and why they have made an entire, high-demand figure line in very low numbers, when all of the above are essentially sold for the same price at retail and none of the secondary sales that those chase and rare figures bring are ever seen by Jazwares. Business Law guy said that either they A. don't care about the line and are trying to tank it intentionally so they can focus on their true moneymakers like Squishmallows, without worrying about any repercussions from breaking a contract, or B. there is shady ish going on where the people making the figures ARE gaining extra money from the chases, it's just being kept off the books, or C. A combination of the two that involves taxes tomfoolery. Because yeah, from a strictly business model perspective, what Jazwares, a supposedly experienced company, is doing makes zero financial sense. But the money never lies so one way or another, Jazwares is making more money by keeping the numbers low than it is from making the figures available to the public easily. However that works out. Can you please explain B and C in more detail?
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Post by shanieomaniac on Mar 28, 2024 4:17:46 GMT -5
I actually sat down with my friend who has a degree in business law and tried to hash out the logistics of Jazwares business model for AEW figures. Why they would do things like make ftil figures chase only, why they would flood the stores with unwanted exclusives but never stock anything else, and why they have made an entire, high-demand figure line in very low numbers, when all of the above are essentially sold for the same price at retail and none of the secondary sales that those chase and rare figures bring are ever seen by Jazwares. Business Law guy said that either they A. don't care about the line and are trying to tank it intentionally so they can focus on their true moneymakers like Squishmallows, without worrying about any repercussions from breaking a contract, or B. there is shady ish going on where the people making the figures ARE gaining extra money from the chases, it's just being kept off the books, or C. A combination of the two that involves taxes tomfoolery. Because yeah, from a strictly business model perspective, what Jazwares, a supposedly experienced company, is doing makes zero financial sense. But the money never lies so one way or another, Jazwares is making more money by keeping the numbers low than it is from making the figures available to the public easily. However that works out. Can you please explain B and C in more detail? Ok, here's the best explanation I have from what I understand. The idea of the shady ish. That one is easy. Company heavily promotes limited run products. Puts enough of the product on shelves to entice buyers. But much like a shady businessman doing dealings on the side, if people anywhere in the chain were able to secure those rare products from the inside, and then makes anonymous accounts to sell said products as a seemingly third party, then the same people responsible for making the decisions on what rare items to release are lining their pockets with direct profits from their own items that they don't have to mess with the company checkbook for. Think of it as what happens in sports betting scandals. You make your money as a player, but if you have the ability to make money on the side using your own employment to rig the results, those funds go right into your personal pocket rather than having to deal with a ton of taxes. Note: this is NOT an accusation, simply an example of how this might work. The second one is much more complex but amounts to the sorts of stuff WBDiscovery is doing where they will make a product, can it, them it becomes a tax write off for more money then they otherwise would have made. That one I'm less sure of the details on but that one can be seen happening in the entertainment industry on a regular basis these days. Again, not an accusation, just saying how such a thing may work. Really, it's a fascinating topic of how the inner workings of corporations occur vs what the consumers see and if I had a better mind for economics I'd love to at least take a couple college courses to really explore how these sorts of things work.
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Post by βππ£π ππ ππππ on Mar 28, 2024 8:24:58 GMT -5
The simple, real answer: Jazwares does not pay a licensing fee to AEW to make their figures like just about all other toy makers do for popular brands. They have far less ambition to make a line profitable and pleasing to its customers when they do not have a vested interest. Imagine what Mattel pays WWE or what Jazwares pays other brands like Fortnite to have the license to make their products. They have major dollars invested into those licenses and they need a big team with a lot of drive to make it work. Jazwares just does not have that with AEW figures. Its on a shoestring budget and they are just allowing the line to survive at this point.
Its actually likely that AEW itself is paying Jazwares to produce figures because they want to be seen as a premiere company that can compete in a certain space, but AEW's business (especially on the side of biz. development and licensing) is so jumbled that they don't know or care about the mess that is the AEW figure line.
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Post by savedbytheringbell on Mar 28, 2024 11:36:22 GMT -5
So what youβre all saying is there are going to be more figures in Danhausen cosplayβ¦
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Post by rkmo: Just a Fact of Life on Mar 28, 2024 11:49:23 GMT -5
It feels like I'm watching the news
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Mar 28, 2024 12:24:20 GMT -5
So what youβre all saying is there are going to be more figures in Danhausen cosplayβ¦ The Danhausen cosplay figures will continue until morale improves
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Post by LK3 on Mar 28, 2024 14:05:24 GMT -5
You will all be cursed for disparaging Danhausen!
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Mar 29, 2024 0:09:05 GMT -5
Malakai Black is still the only item sold out lol
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czw4life
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Post by czw4life on Mar 29, 2024 8:09:50 GMT -5
Just throwing this out there,I'd trade my MOC supreme malakai black for his unmatched 6 figure (loose or moc)
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heelshaun
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Post by heelshaun on Mar 29, 2024 11:43:47 GMT -5
Anybody get shipping yet?
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Post by underoos on Mar 29, 2024 12:06:10 GMT -5
Just throwing this out there,I'd trade my MOC supreme malakai black for his unmatched 6 figure (loose or moc) Tempting deal, I actually like the unmatched 6
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Post by personagamer on Mar 29, 2024 12:46:04 GMT -5
Anyone know who it's being shipped from my shop account just got a package from zglobal1
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Post by bradpitt on Mar 29, 2024 12:57:47 GMT -5
Anyone know who it's being shipped from my shop account just got a package from zglobal1 thatβs gotta be them I just got those emails also
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Post by personagamer on Mar 29, 2024 13:34:24 GMT -5
Malaki may actually be 1 of 5000 as well it's promoted as such on the packaging I'm seeing on Reddit
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Post by czw4life on Mar 29, 2024 20:33:31 GMT -5
Just throwing this out there,I'd trade my MOC supreme malakai black for his unmatched 6 figure (loose or moc) Tempting deal, I actually like the unmatched 6 Well if you decide you want to, PM me
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