Retailers must really not want my money

/\ THIS /\ Is the best response ever. I laughed my ass off. Retailers dont know what they are selling. Thats part of the problem. If they hired people that knew their job and understood the department that they headed up then there wouldnt be a problem moving stock. There is also another problem that Wal-Mart has...as does any store really. Hoarding. I know for a fact based on what friends who actually work stocking shelves and unloading trucks, the staff that open the boxes will take the more hard to get figures first before the consumer gets a chance. While not illegal or against policy...as long as its money in the till why do they care right? I believe this is another reason you see 38 Bumbles, 2 Wheeljacks, 1 Bulkhead, and sometimes a Soundwave or an Arcee the night after stocking. Retailers do shoot themselves in the foot. They dont have a clue as to what theyre selling and the people doing the orders have no idea how to balance theyre stock. These stores need to adopt a policy of purchasing for their employees as well. Money is money but if you chase away your business for the sake of your employees then you are in fact hurting business. I dont even shop at Wally world for TFs anymore. I do all that on BBTS and TFsource. Its a bit more expensive but I get what I want without the hassle. Thats worth all the money in the world!

They really dont...

If I could order cases that had ZERO Bumblebees I'd at least DOUBLE my orders. As it is my costs are already higher than the big box guys and knowing that I'll be stuck with so many shelfwarmers makes it hard to justify ordering more.

I'd love it if the specialty market could order cases of figures ala carte...(still keeping it at full cases but make it a full case of the same figure) like McFarrane does with their sports figures...other than chase figures I can order full cases of just the local players to meet my customers demand!

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im importing and to be honest im glad there is a break i need to save because i want a life out side transformers agian lol this has been nuts latly

them puting so many figures that i already in the waves of prime make it easy as pie to collect



use down time to back track i have over the last few years and now im caught up so any down time by now on is just going to be saveing lets see

4 voyagers 2 deluxes 1 masterpiece left for the WHOLE year feels great to be honest

I'm sort of with you on this issue OP. There are very few retail releases that I'm interested in, and with not only the smaller sized figures, but the poorer plastic quality becoming more and more apparent, the higher prices seem like a slap in the face. Therefore, after I get a few FoC figures (namely Grimlock, the Wreckers, and Blaster) I'll be done with collecting Hasbro figures.

I've actually been contemplating focusing more on 3rd party releases and Masterpiece figures since they are apparently the only toys that are intended for adult collectors anymore.

I haven't bought a new official figure since around Christmas. Everything else I've bought new has been third-party.

If you think the prices are too high then don't buy them. Thats what I'm doing. I don't care for how simple the transformations have gotten, how much of the budget is going towards gimmicky trash, how small the figures are or how cheaply made they feel so I'm voting with my wallet and leaving them on the pegs.

Its a win-win situation. I have more cash in my pocket, and less impulse-buy clutter on my shelves.

Found a FoC Prime on shelves the other day. At $13-ish I'd consider but for $15 and tax I couldn't even look at it twice.

It was the same situation when I was living in the UK, except there I wouldn't even see anything until 8 months after it stopped showing up everywhere else on the planet thanks to having one store within 20 miles that actively carried robits.

1) Welcome to the rest of the world (including your own), qq moar, you know the drill.

2) Wal-Mart's pretty much always been a shitty place to buy toys when you're a dedicated collector, so I don't see why this "hike" is really a surprise.

3) If you don't like a price or product, don't buy it or don't buy it from the place you dislike. At the end of the day, you still have TRU, Target, K-Mart, as well as countless discount retailers, and that's not even taking online venues into account.



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It's called inflation, deal with it. Everyone else has to as well.

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The problem is retailers want more bumblebee because he's recognizable.
It's the same thing with duke in Gi Joe and Darth Vader in star wars. Retailers pressure hasbro for more core characters in a large number of brands.