Here's the fault in your over-simplified as you call it scenario.
The Type A's were buying multiples (for whatever reason), now they're not. Thus Hot Toys will have a harder time selling through their products and may have to resort to discounting them to clear inventory.
In the end, this hurts everyone. Hot Toys bottom line shrinks, less products are made, people are laid off and Types A and B no longer get to purchase Hot Toys products.
Over-production is always worse than under-production because it costs the company more money in the end.
As for the class warfare example....poor people shouldn't be buying Hot Toys in the first place.
It's anyone's guess/speculation at this point. And let me state that this is my opinion. Maybe Hot Toys is finally now getting enough new collectors into the market to compensate for the lack of multiple purchases from the type A collectors. I think more and more people are just now discovering hot toys.
If not, then what your saying maybe right, and hot toys may suffer the consequences of their actions and maybe start to release fewer and fewer figures, thereby attracting the Type A collectors back into the market. It's anyone's hypothesis at this point. I'm just presenting one senario.
And for your last point, I do agree. But where there is a will, there is a way. Thy do you think credit card debt is so high in the U.S.? What we SHOULD do and what we ACTUALLY do can be 2 completely different things.
