Are Sideshow Collectibles collectors' senses of entitlement getting too big?

[potato]

I missed those days where you can just breeze into any toys department and just choose the figure you'd want, check on the spot & pay with hard cold cash and go back with joy.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

, bingo

The world is turning into a bunch of hipster crybabies

It's happened to you

I missed those days where you can just breeze into any toys department and just choose the figure you'd want, check on the spot & pay with hard cold cash and go back with joy.

And you too

 

[karamazov80]

We should probably clarify what we are talking about here. People do feel they deserve products they aren't being offered, or to get things for cheaper than they are required to pay, or to get things more quickly than Sideshow can give it to them. And that is a kind of unfortunate entitlement that I see all over the place. People don't "deserve" for companies to produce whatever it is that customers want them to on the customer's terms.

However, like Green says, if you essentially enter into a contract that Sideshow will deliver you a product they advertise for sale, and you get something faulty, with major paint problems, etc., then that's a justifiable complaint IMO.

 

[Boba Ben]

More than not, I feel that the product they are putting out doesn't match the price they're asking as they continually rise. I demonstrate this stance buying less and less products provided by Sideshow and Hot Toys. I don't think that's an entitlement issue, it's a customer's speaking with his wallet. I do think it's a little silly when people complain about the prices but say they're going to buy the thing anyway, but to each his own.

 

[Solidus]

Why u deserve?

 

[Snadinator]

You just divided by zero, to the back of line you must go.

 

[Vitus]

I just want my stuff to arrive NOT broken and painted by someone that isn't blind.

 

[The Ween]

In case you didn't see it in the Sandbox:

[ame]https://youtu.be/tPzRPga6uDg[/ame]

 

[Kibishii]

I feel that the product they are putting out doesn't match the price they're asking as they continually rise...I don't think that's an entitlement issue, it's a customer's speaking with his wallet.

I have no problem with rising prices as long as the quality is great. The people complaining about rising costs need to understand that production costs in China have gone up dramatically in the last five years.

Money really isn't the issue to me, it is the product itself. Sideshow's QC, especially for the Marvel line, has been rapidly going downhill for awhile now.

I refuse to financially support a "high end collectible" company that can't seem to fix it's quality control problems.

 

[Mr. Green]

In case you didn't see it in the Sandbox:

https://youtu.be/tPzRPga6uDg

that's nutthin. This happens on a daily basis in UPS. Grounds shipping is the worst cause they all stack in a trailer. Worker would stack layer/wall to hold some package they toss in between. They do this cause not all trailer is packed full.
1-2 day shipping is better since they're packed in small air container. But all package travel through a large conveyor belt. Thor forbid if they get stuck, someone would have to go in and poke them loose, usually while the belt is still moving. So stepping on em boxes are nothin new.

Once my coworker found a loose bag of walnut and decided to have his share. He even offered it to me and a unknowingly girl. But I am cursed with morla weakness and don't want to feel thirsty, LOL.

*Edit: moral

 

[a-dev]

In case you didn't see it in the Sandbox:

https://youtu.be/tPzRPga6uDg

As the guy says at the end they just ended up giving themselves more work by haphazardly lobbing the boxes onto the conveyor. Most of them just fell off and had to picked back up. ****ing gob$h!tes.