Amen bro!Quote:
Originally Posted by Keidatron
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Amen bro!Quote:
Originally Posted by Keidatron
When I found out they were scanning at $15, I picked up weirdwolf and mindwipe.
Gotta admit that mindwipe is quite disappointing, and I hate the rubber parts and false wings, yay it was only $15.
Weirdwolf is surprisingly good.
Wish I had picked up highbrow instead of mindwipe
Can't wait for wave 3
Any skull crunchers Brisbane Northside? I would like that one at the $15 mark. I only bought Chromedome as the others I already had or didn't want. Thanks.
Found a Ravage, Rumble and Laserbeak today. $15 each. Didn't even know they were out.
While I would love that, $25 sits about right in my mind of what they should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keidatron
I don't think Deluxes have been anywhere near $15 since Beast Wars!
I dunno, Australia is one of the most expensively priced, if not THE most, places in the world as far as TFs go. Even taking into account exchange rates and whatever other import costings blah blah blah, we're being ripped off imo.
I mean, 20 bucks for figures the likes of CW Bombshell etc? That ain't right,
The US Retail prices have been going up in the last few years, during a time when the AU$ dropped from parity to 70-75 US cents... so we actually should have been seeing a price rise here, but instead we've had most stay the same, and some size classes have even seen a drop in price (like the Deluxe and Leaders).
These are the US Retail prices, converted to AU$ (at the current approximate bank rate of 0.73), plus their 7% sales tax (their sales tax rate varies for each state, but 7% is about average)...
GEN TMast - - AU$7.33 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$9-10 in most stores)
GEN Legends - AU$14.66 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$19-20 in most stores)
GEN Deluxe - - AU$24.92 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$25-30 in most stores)
GEN Voyager - AU$36.64 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$48-50 in most stores)
GEN Leader - - AU$65.96 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$59-90 in most stores)
GEN Titan - - - AU$219.86 (compared to our regular shelf price of AU$249-369 in most stores)
So when we have sale prices, like $20 Deluxes, we are getting our toys for less than Americans, which is really unusual for us.
Considering the non-American branches of Hasbro have to pay profits/commissions to the main American Hasbro, our prices shouldn't be that close to American prices... as we were often close to double their prices (which caused a lot of annoyance and aggression by Australian collectors in the past, prompting people like me to import most Transformers toys while we were around parity, but in the last year thanks to sales and the exchange rate, I've been buying most from Australian retailers).
Yeah, I atleast agree with that - $20 for a legends figure is just ridiculous! (Particularly when the next more function size up is only $5 more!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Keidatron
Thanks for that Griffin!Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
New Zealand would like a word then :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Keidatron
Come over here and see what we pay as we do not have the volume or the specials to get some of Australia's pretty good prices.
I guess with the low volumes that stores stock here in Aus, they can only lower sale prices to such, still good... but yeah, when I look at the "old stock" clearance sale price being posted on facebook photos from Philippines, I get a bit dismayed at our pricing here.... deluxes there drop down to about $16 and voyagers down to 32-35 ( same here I guess) Some retailers even drop the tiny legions to$3-5... which is what they shouldve been priced imo in the first place instead of the $8-10 price we pay for em. Plus they still sell old waves, unlike how we here have to search high and low for some figures we missed or get skipped on... which tempts me to often just wait for my annual holiday there and binge on buying the figures there. But it will be a year late , hahah... ah well some figures I just ask a friend of mine to buy for me... though its already old by a year before I get my hands on it at least I dont miss out... plus he does chance upon them on a sale which is really cheaper. I can wait since at least I know I am guaranteed to have the figure. 😊😊😊