Amazon has some seriously cheap prices going on right now, especially if you’re a Prime subscriber (I am – between the free shipping and the Instant Videos, it’s totally worth it IMHO).
Star Wars Black 6″
- Star Wars The Black Series Sandtrooper Figure 6 Inches $10.12
- Star Wars The Black Series R2-D2 Figure 6 Inches $10.12
- Star Wars The Black Series Luke Skywalker Figure 6 Inches
$8.99
- Star Wars The Black Series Darth Maul Figure 6 Inches $10.12
- Star Wars The Black Series Han Solo Figure 6 Inches $22.49 – Han, evidently, is still popular.
- Star Wars The Black Series Boba Fett Figure 6 Inches Price? You don’t wanna know. Why isn’t this figure the fourth figure in series 3, again?
- Star Wars The Black Series Princess Leia (Slave Outfit) Figure 6 Inches $22.26 – the ugliest SWB6″ figure is somehow still selling well enough to hold its standard price.
- Star Wars The Black Series Greedo Figure 6 Inches Poor Greedo – already down to $11.99!
Batman 1966
- Been waiting to pull the trigger on these? Maybe an $8.99 price for Batman Classic TV Series Batman Collector Action Figure will make that trigger finger a bit itchier.
- Or how about a mere $4.99 for Batman Classic TV Series The Joker Collector Action Figure?
- Batman Classic TV Series Catwoman Collector Action Figure $9.99
- Batman Classic TV Series The Riddler Collector Action Figure $8.99
- Batman Classic TV Series Surfs Up Batman Collector Action Figure $8.99
Monte
Went ahead and nabbed a Batman. It's worth $9 to photograph him, I suppose.
For $5 I was gonna get Joker, too, despite his many problems. Unfortunately, he was an "Add-On" item, which is new to me, and which seems, assuming I'm not misunderstanding it, like kind of a BS deal, since Prime ostensibly provides free shipping and now they're arbitrarily sending some purchases to a Pile of Loot-style waiting list. We've been happy, like you, to be Prime customers, but this might make me reevaluate that…
Incidentally, I clicked your link to get to the Batman. Never did that before; hope I did it right and you got the credit or however it works.
Poe Ghostal
Yeah, I noticed the add-on thing but wasn't clear on what it meant – so wait, you absolutely can't buy this thing unless you have another $20 worth of stuff? That's absolutely bizarre. That's really only going to help the third-party sellers.
And yet, I can't say I didn't expect something like this at some point. There was no way Amazon could sustain the Prime free shipping model as-is forever. You knew they were going to have to start forcing people to combine orders. Mailing one tiny item to someone one day, then another tiny item to the same person the next day, is a huge waste of resources.
That said, what Amazon really should do is allow people to "warehouse" items like BBTS. Of course, for that to make any sense to the customer, they'd have to reduce the free shipping benefits of Prime, which means taking away benefits people are used to. Like trying to charge subscription fees for newspaper or magazine websites when people got used to getting them for free, that is going to be an uphill battle.
And yes, I'll get a commission from that sale – thank you, sir!
Monte Williams
Yeah, my understanding is that it's like Pile of Loot, only you have no choice in the matter. I assume they ship it as soon as you have $25 worth of stuff, but I'm not sure; I was so grumpy about it that I skipped Joker and settled for Batman.