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Originally Posted by qz33
Guys the absolute best advice is this:
Just stop POing from any of these clown statue companies.
They are all relying on their customers to take the risks.
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I disagree. I mean, yes, they do. But, the alternative is no product at all, at least nothing 'good'. It's too great of a risk to invest your own money into high end collectibles and hope they sell to someone. Oh sure it'd be wonderful if these companies did that but who are we kidding? Would we have CC robo pieces?? Stargate pieces? GB terror dog? Need I go on? Hell no, we'd have none of that stuff. No one would have invested their money in those pieces and their production runs hoping people would buy them.
I get what you're saying, but this is a necessary evil for these collectibles. This market wouldn't even exist beyond the most popular franchises, with a handful of companies if that, and who knows if our favorites would make the cut. Would Aliens? Predator? Terminator? Would it be restricted to billion dollar brands to max customer potential? Like Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers, and DC? Maybe there wouldn't be a market, period. We all hate how the system works but it's really the only system that can work. Otherwise we'd be stuck with typical products at best because no one would even bother investing in any kind of higher end products, even just in the $100 range. It's too much for anybody who would ever care to enter such a market for collectibles.
To my knowledge, the last time a brave soul did this, he did it for just the $15ish dollar range, and his name was Todd McFarlane. He saw a need for a higher end action figure, something more than a cheap toy that Mattel was trying to do for his stuff. So he went at it alone. I think of him as the father of the high end collectibles hobby. I imagine most of us has bought his collectibles at least once in our lives. I'm sure many of us bought alot of his stuff. His stuff wasn't large and it wasn't priced at $3000 or $1000 or even just $500. But he was the first to risk his money and prove there was a market for big boy collectibles. Not just for movies, but for sports, too. I had ALOT of his stuff. It's still dear to my heart today, and I sorely wished I still had all of it, but as some of you know, a house fire took mostly all of it away. What I have left was a select few pieces that I chose to open and had them on a shelf and the box I put them in during moving happened to be in the last bedroom of the house that was half spared by fire before it was put out. Firefighter water couldn't damage them so they were saved.
Anyway, his risk pales in comparison to the risk required for these kinds of collectibles. I wish some super rich dude could come along, invest a ton of money, mass produce statues, and lower prices on his stuff. I'd love to get cheaper high end statues all day every day. It's just not ever going to happen, and I'd never get most of what I want if that were the system in place. And if it were in place, I know for a FACT I'd spend half or more of my time -----ing about product selling out and me missing out. You know it would happen!