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Originally Posted by Blade3327
I'm no bootlicker, but I have an extremely hard time believing this. Everything in this industry (from manufacturing to retail) costs at least twice as much as it did ten years ago. Raw materials and shipping have skyrocketed over the pandemic. No one is producing a 100-lb, 3-foot Predator statue for $330 a pop in 2022, decals or not.
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Don?t want to derail too much but all this production / material cost increase is just bs, they are all made in China. Those guys in factory with couple years experience make $500 / month, new hire way less. And they do it assembly line style with huge volume, everyone gets a part to do, by the time you done 5 or 6 times, things go very fast, most time just waiting for it to dry?.
I have been buying from China directly for few years now for my own collection so have some good relationship with local guys, for example latest piece this magneto on throne they making, I imagine is similar in cost to the p1 it?s 1/4 but huge with throne and volume is way less than official prime1 stuff so per statue cost is lot higher. Cost from same type factory that make prime1 stuff, picking the highest quality level ( you can actually choose levels), is around $400 a pop, and it retails locally for $800-$900. Call it custom recast whatever, the paint/cast quality is all on par with prime1, you can look at the face paint app - right one is the original custom they made cast from, it?s actually worse.
I don?t want to shatter anyones bubble, but it?s all just an illusion, company put a stamp on it and cost goes up multiple times (I know that?s important to some and understandable ) Most of sideshow stuff is done at a lower factory so they are even cheaper to make especially with the volume they do.
Shipping cost did went up a lot but they just get passed to you. The extra cost is license and original design, that get divided among all the edition size. Price going up is not because of production cost