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Originally Posted by Silas Loki
Yes, true - but the drop in value is completely artificial....and also inconsistent.
We're not seeing a "universal" downscaling of JND product pricing. Some retailers are offering bigger discounts then others. It's a case by case situation. I see some retailers sold out their stock of this statue, at their original MSRP......so it's clear that the "devalueing" of the statue is not a given.
And the reason why I say it's artificial - it's like a guy has an Aston Martin, normally, an Aston retails for $200K.....this guy is down on his luck, and needs instant cash, so he drops some of his assets on the market for irresistible prices - he sells his Aston for $30K.....so, do we now start an online thread that Astons are only worth $30k? - of course not, it's a special price created by a specific set of circumstances.
Retailers are dropping the price of the Bale Batman, because of their own special circumstances. If they could have sold at MSRP, they would - so, therefore the value of the statue remains the same....as a buyer today, you just need to find a desperate seller, willing to take a bath on the price.....but this is a completely normal and standard retail situation.
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Sugo here in Australia rarely has to drop the price on their JND allocation. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen any discounts applied directly to a piece. Maybe only store wide sales, which are sometimes dollar capped anyway. But it’s my guess is that they don’t really buy much in the way of excess stock beyond their customers preorders.
Though their Queen stock seems to have sales now and then. But half the time, sometimes the sale price is equivalent to my preorder price anyway, it’s just that they’ve increased the price upon it arriving instock.
