I'm a 13 yr old kid, my parents died, and i have cancer. See how fucking easy that was? It doesn't it make your position any less tenuous.

Your logic is so utterly simplistic and flawed. Any price that's not the cheapest is "price gouging"?

The only one insulting here is you - you're so wrong it's offensive to think we have to put up with this crap.

 

$87 shipped is an awesome price. I hope you all jump on that. Me I will sit buy and wait.

At the end of the day it won't be until April til the complete Hercules will be available so there is no rush.

I just have one question though. How does my preaching lower prices effect any of your lives anyway? If this community was an actual community and not a bunch of individuals looking out for number 1, we would have seen lower prices long ago.

@ OptionZero...did you buy your Exgraver yet? Paid in full? if so with whom?

 

The problem, it would seem, is not your preaching for lower prices. It's the insinuation that BBTS is price gouging. This is where capitalism and the free market take place. If BBTS prices are too high then consumers will buy from other vendors that offer the given product for less. Or, if all of the vendors prices on a given product are equal or near equal, but too high overall, demand for the product will drop. The result, will be excess inventory of said product will then be discounted in order to increase demand.

 

Like others have said, you don't know shit about running a business.

BBTS has to pay it's employees, they have bills, and before they sell something they have to decide on a price that covers the cost of the toys and factors in the money paid to bills and employees AND make a profit... They are a business.

Normally the MSRP should be enough to cover those costs, but BBTS also has to have their product shipped over seas.

Did they raise it a little too much? In my opinion...yeah a little, but that's my opinion as a consumer who has the choice of not doing business with them.

I AM choosing to do my business with them, however, because they also provide CUSTOMER SERVICE. Good luck exchanging a defective toy with some guy who just set up a mass order...hell even if it's missing a piece, I know from other peeps past experience that BBTS sets aside some product just so they can replace missing pieces if that happens...

How much value can you put on GREAT customer service?

 

in the meanwhile, it's gone sold-out at robotkingdom (with a first restock during august...): I think this won't be a shelf wormer after all  

 

I'm loving the staggered release of these. It gives us the opportunity to appreciate the individual robot and alt modes before we finally get the Devastator.

For all the brilliance of Munitioner and Explorer, and the extra weaponry and functionality the sets gave the rest of the Combaticons, having them both in hand on day one meant most of us fast forwarded through those bits and went for the money shot.

Not the case here.

 

I'm only speaking for myself, but I have no interest in defending BBTS, just like I wouldn't defend Hasbro or Takara. I'm not that loyal. My only interest is the supression of misinformation.

 

I agree. I'm not defending BBTS, but they are the currently accused e-tailer of price gouging. BBTS may feel they can charge a bit more for the added value they offer their customers (ie, POL, pay later option, good customer service). Personally, I think it would be price gouging if BBTS had an exclusive on an item and artificially raised the price way beyond a typical retail mark-up. That didn't work out so well for another vendor that I can think of...

 

Its true that you have to weight customer service in. BBTS, while their prices are higher, ALWAYS takes care of me. So when I order from another, I do say, yes, I am taking a bit of a risk. Its up to me to judge whether that risk is worth the savings I get.

 

You can't spout off your nonsense than cry about it when we call you out.

If you want to post here, get ready to hear responses. In your cases, those responses might tear you to shreds.

 

This is a very true statement, these companys still wanna make their idea profit percentage on these items in order for it to be worth while for them to carry these items.

 

Mine is processing with BBTS right now..  cant wait for the non-insecticons to come in so i can ship my POL.

 

so the wife is going to buy this for me for my bday. which is next week.

she's pretty picky with the plastic crack and prefers diecast. any issues with the toy yet?

also there's no pics of the last two bots on the box? dundundun.

 

Woot! Mine too! Can't wait!

 

Woo! Your right! Mine is also processing at BBTS.

But I am also trying to wait for the not insecticons to all come out before I ship any herc pieces....decisions, decisions

 

you don't have to. the biggest commercial model does not. if they do, that's bad customer service.

 

Then... I like bad customer service?

I sure appreciated the super quick turn around when my igear kup heads came missing a cygar..

I think more appropriately, bad customer service is less money invested which is a better commercially viable model.

I'd prefer better customer service which may translate to a worse commercially viable model.

 

as a customer who doesn't actually pay for the service but the item alone, i would not want to be charged a fee in the actual value of the toy itself. hidden or not. customer don't want to know about these fees. the actual cost price should be hidden since everyone here can at least smell what the profit margin is on these toys, its bad for business.

just to join in, any company would milk this devastator and they don't need any reason to do it. if they did its only because they can and will milk this toy.

 

I can agree with that.. Hence why I don't think TFC toys ahs told us exactly how much it costs them to make it.
If they give an MSRP, and then it varies from store to store.. Well That's the end user price cost.

 

I'll probably wait for that first bug and then ship those two toys - I wanna TOUCH those two before committing to the rest of them   I'm not real concerned, but you never know. Before a mess of these wind up in the POL I'd like to mess with the first couple.