intothevoid
Super Freak
Art figures avenger game out lately.it's hot toys quality and cost only $110 including shipping
i cannot imagine that licenses cost that much high as they want as to believe.
With the same thinking we have had to pay $40-$50 for neca 7 inch figures
just for license issues.
Hot toys just saw ebay increasing prices for older products
and saw that customers were willing to pay $200-$250
just to get their hands a figure that cost initially $100
so hot toys thought ...hey i can do the same...why someone else gets my profit
the only problem is that not majority of the people are willing to pay this
kind of money nowdays
i believe this is going to be a boomerang for the company because they will turn off
people from the hobby...
Not majority of people earns $3.000 to $4.000
and are willing to spent monthly $400 to $600 on figures.
Nothing you said is based on any logic, let alone any facts...
Actually it makes a lot of sense and he raises many good points.
I agree with the notion that the primary reason for higher HT prices = the fact that they saw figures that they released between 2008-2010 seemed to consistently go up in value on the secondary market.
So what did they do?
1. Increase production runs (e.g., CR Superman is still not sold out)
2. Increase average pricing