If he goes ahead with this idea, it is 100% GUARANTEED to adversely impact sales of other figures, because it will annoy people who are fans/buyers of any affected series.
For example, if Chang wasn't made available to everyone, I could live with that on a personal level as I'm not interested in getting him anyways, but it will sure as heck irritate those who do find it impossible to order. However, if the Gorn was limited to a subset of folks, THAT would tick me off no end.
If the relationship is soured to the point where bad practices spoil the collecting experience, people will simply stop buying.
I'm not sure what it would take to make any of us decide to stop pre-ordering certain lines, maybe even selling the figures we have in-hand, but everyone has a breaking point.
It will also encourage greedy scalpers who will only buy to resell.
It is just so unecessary . . . I see absolutely ZERO benefit to this proposed part of his business model - not for HIM, and not for CUSTOMERS . . . ONLY for scalpers.
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