greygoose
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Cars and fridges are bad examples - they're both essential parts of everyday life.
Budgeting for buying collectible toys is completely different - we don't need them, we just want them.
1/6 NEXT Hot Toys STAR WARS Figure...?
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Budgeting for buying collectible toys is completely different - we don't need them, we just want them.
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I kinda agree, unless it’s someone I really want and I order it from Hong Kong, I’ll wait to PO until it gets close
No, that is my point. They are essential and people don’t pay those off one year in advance. If you did, people would look at you as if you were insane. But somehow, some collectors think it is fine throwing away a few hundred to a few thousand in advanced? If you have the disposable income, those figures hitting at the same time wouldn’t matter if you put that money aside yourself anyways.Cars and fridges are bad examples - they're both essential parts of everyday life.
Budgeting for buying collectible toys is completely different - we don't need them, we just want them.
Can anyone who pays off figures 12+ months in advance name ONE thing positive about it? One?
CrankbaitJon
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I don't pay my stuff off but I can understand the idea that people want to pay off stuff that they really want and that 10k to some are not much money.
greygoose
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It's a vicous circle - if you're someone who has 10+ figures on pre-order every few months then that amount of money is going to be coming out of your bank on a continual basis, it's pretty much a standing order.
hardytrash
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Cheaper prices and shipping for the people outside of the US. For example, I PO'd Rex when he first went up on Toyswonderland for £170 shipped. If I was to PO him now on the same site it'd cost me around £260-£270.
I think from POing my figs early on Toyswonderland I must have saved easily about £300.
So there's one!
greygoose
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People are unique and do things differently to suit their own needs - that's the black and white of it.
Dayuuum. Really? That sucks. Gonna be honest didn’t consider the non-Americans. Never knew that. Well that makes senes. You save more spending early than you would otherwise.
This isn't a personal dig or anything, but I see that happens a lot with Americans.
Yeah. We are all raised in an American centric America first bubble. Like I struggle to name one UK celebrity outside of Simon Cowell (because he was on American Idol and AGT lol) but I bet you can name bunches of US celebrities. Same thing about politics. Guess that is the impact of American media.
It does drive me nuts. We have tons of 24-hour news channels that only repeat the same 2-3 stories every hour... and barely if any world news. I've always wondered why they can dedicate at least 10 minutes every hour to world news stories. Like, I just learned that Greece is burning. Did I get it from the news? No. I learned about it on the Olympics.
You watch the news? And the Olympics? I try to watch as little tv as possible. Sensationalist media outlets want to drive fear into you. Out of a 30 min telecast, you are lucky to get 5 minutes of actual news. I'd rather just scroll the local/world news websites, but you have to watch those too. The gatekeepers are good at gatekeeping.
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Ditto
Rbeato
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We have “news” channels in the US? Interesting
Yeah that'd be awesome too!
Oh my, I wasn't aware of that 1/4 ST, lol But yeah I think I'd bite on one!
hardytrash
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Quite surprised to hear this tbh considering like half of the MCU and Star Wars cast are British. Generally with the amount of UK actors in the media you should know some?
Ewan McGregor? Liam Neeson? Alec Guiness? Daisy Ridley? Felicity Jones? Peter Cushing?
I should have phrased that as like British only celebs. By that I mean famous only in Britain. Like the Kardashians here.
I find the idea that ‘money earns you next to nothing sitting in a bank so might as well put that money towards buying expensive toys instead’ extremely bizzare to be honest. Then again, I imagine the kind of person who thinks that is the same kind of person you see re-selling a recently released figure on FB because they just found an unexpected bill in the mail or their car broke down. Blows my mind how financially uneducated many collectors are. Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t buy any of these figures if I couldn’t afford them - and by affording them I mean affording them over and above daily necessities and putting something aside for the unexpected.
I have a separate digital piggybank for figures I have pre-ordered. I don't pay them in full in advance, only an NRD, but I can pay them at every moment should it be necessary. If I can't do that because of other bills, I wouldn't buy the figure.
The reason I don't pay them fully in advance is because I don't like to pay something up front that most likely is 2+years away. (Especially in Europe). I don't want to run the risk in paying everything, only to have the shop go bankrupt or something. Then my money will be gone. Even creditcard insurances and everything often don't cover 2+ years, so I'm not paying full in advance.
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