Just a reminder, the Ocean Warlord goes back on sale today at 12 noon EDT (that’s 9 AM Pacific Coast time). May Matty have mercy upon your souls!
Just a reminder, the Ocean Warlord goes back on sale today at 12 noon EDT (that’s 9 AM Pacific Coast time). May Matty have mercy upon your souls!
Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén
Mark
@PrfktTear, Irish by Birth.
(PrfktTear)
Good show Mark! Are you Irish by birth, or just happen to be living there righ tnow?
Mark
@Jim…well kind of, he is in England and I'm in Northern Ireland. He only charges £30 a figure with free postage. I actually got my Skeletor and Stratos from him and they were excellent quality with no bad paint.
I am so excited by the MOTUC line, don't get me wrong I will still get the odd Transformers and G.I. Joe but I just want to focus on the MOTUC. Hope He-Ro is not to expensive when he comes out.
Jim
@Mark: Congrats! I think that's always the best way to go…finding a local supplier that charges a cheap base price and ofcourse the positive of there being no s/h charges! Plus, you can probably pick through his stock if you want the best paints and no production errors.
Mark
I have just sorted out a deal with a fellow collector in the UK…and he is going to get me all the upcomming MOTUC figures along with his so I will not have to pay the scalpers….except possibly for He-Ro depending on its price.
@PrfktTear, if we went back to a bartering system Mattel HQ would have an awful amount of loaves…saying that they would not go hungry.
@Jim….at least MOTUC classics are selling well. At first I prefered the 2002 Zodac, bit after seeing the Classic and looking at my original I am glad they went for his classic look which is far better.
Jim
@ prfktear: LOL
PrfktTear
Aah… but a single dollar will buy ye a McDouble! (Same as a double cheeseburger, minus one slice'o'cheese…)
That said, I have been known on occasion to enjoy a foot long… sub.
Furthermore, a dollar is useless without a five cent piece for tax! 😉
-x
Jim
@PrfktTear: The dollar is worthless UNLESS it's has 4 more friends to buy a footlong sandwich. BURP! lol
Eating a Subway footlong for $5…pretty good deal. Always thought the commericals had a bit of sexual inuendo! lol
Anyway….I shall buy a zodak. damn you mattel for such a tempting collection!
PrfktTear
@Jim: Always glad to entertain! 😉
Supply and Demand… you always want to make sure you have more of the latter then the former.
Somewhat (un)related, in one of my social studies classes back in, I'd say fifth or sixth grade, our teacher held up a dollar bill and asked how much what he was holding in his hand was worth. Most of the kids in my class guessed "A dollar" "One hundred pennies" etc. I was the only one who raised my hand and said it was worth nothing.
Any "economy" is basically a bubble waiting to burst, just look at the state of the U.S. economy. I think we should go back to the bartering system… you give me a gallon of milk, and I'll give you two loaves of bread…
The fact that these keep selling fast is I think due to a lot of hype, coupled with the popularity. Of course there are going to be scalpers on here buying up 10x at a time, but there are also the fans who are buying one to open, one to display MOC, one to customize, two to sell now, and one to put in a box in their attic and hopefully quintouple their money in ten years…
One would think that there would be no need for scalpers from a line that is sold directly from the manufacturer.
Anyways, I don't think I have a main point here, but either way, its all speculation since we don't know what kind of numbers we're talking about here, and all we have to rely on is the word of Mattel, which to some isn't worth a heck of a lot these days.
-x