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Originally Posted by Darth_CJJ
I don't know, Putrescent. I mean, I did buy a figure from him once, and not only did he take a long time to ship it, but he opened it. I said "don't bubble wrap it because I'm only going to open it," and then he opened it up before he sent it.
I buy TMNT figures and sell them for a lot more than what I paid for them on e-bay. It's a BUSINESS. You're doing the same thing with all of your old toys: you'd have sold all those NT:TNM figures if your prices were more reasonable. A lot of it is luck. So if what he's doing bothers you, there's a good chance that it bothers you because you're doinjg the same thing in a sense.
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I'd imagine by the beginning of your answer that you'd be against his selling but then you turned around with what you just said.
Honestly, after working retail... I began to hate the ebay pigs. Yes, I call them that. These hogs would come in at the first minute of the store opening to buyout all the hard to find figures just to resell them. They'd even call the store and demand to know what figures were on the shelves. And then they'd demand us to put them on hold until they came to get these figures. Pissed me off because there would be stuff I'd want to get but these hogs would get to them first and buy out every Marvel Legends/Star Wars/Transformers, etc possible to sell them for a huge ass increase.
We had people buying out the Chris Benoit figures to ebay them right after we found out that he killed his family.
What Putrescent is doing by reselling a TNM figure for a profit is alright. You can't get TNM in the stores but Shredder? You should be able to, but hogs and those with greed buy them out just for the sake for making money while collectors and the kids are looking for it.
It's why the toys suck. Obnoxious zealots buy out the figures that kids would want as well as what collectors want... Leaving us with the limited and junky repackaged turtles. Eventually we stop collecting because we can't get what we want. And then the toy line fails because we stop collecting.
BTW, CJJ... Check your signature. I think you meant, "Take CARE," unless you want me to take your car?