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12-14 months ago, I decided I wanted to have a spare of each Henkei before I opened any, and while it was a bit of a mission, the only ones that really hurt were Crystal Convoy and Wildrider. I did relatively well on the rest. I think Mirage was the most expensive non-exclusive to acquire at that time at about A$50 (shipped). Ironhide and Ratchet were both A$40 shipped in February 2010.
My moral of the story: Pre-order two of everything.
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I would have thought the moral of this story is to not decide you want to have a spare of each toyOriginally Posted by jaydisc
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Maybe before the opening part, but since opening, I wish I had 4 sets!
(like someone I know here does)
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I've had my wallet clobbered too recently.
I got a sudden compulsion to acquire henkei smokescreen and red alert and had to shell out AUD 90 and 100 for them respectively on ebay. The universe 2.0 and classics prices are soaring too. Universe smokescreen which has the most stupid paintscheme cost me AUD 45 and popular figures like the universe 2.0 starscream are pulling about 80 AUD.
My only guess is that because generations are really pumping out figures for all the classic season 1 autobots a lot of people are now seeing the opportunity to get a complete season 1 line up and are going back to pick up figures that they weren't quite interested in before.
I have an unfortunate fixation with hasbro backing cards so whenever I get a henkei/united figure I have to shell out for the hasbro counterpart as well just to get the cardback! Makes back-collecting even more expensive.
"I am Supreme" [Magneto]
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$25-30 is a lot to pay for a piece of cardboard!
The card art isn't that good IMO... and don't even start me about how poorly written Hasbro's tech specs bios are... *nerd.rage*
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I'm feeling the pain at the moment. I decided to wait on RtS Jazz and Tracks till they appeared in stores, and now since they were so short packed I haven't been able to nab one in Brissie.. now people are asking $40 delivered on eBay for a fig that would cost $24 at BigW. Same deal with Generations Scourge and Kup; who know's if they will ever turn up?
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Warpath just went to retail at stores here at $200 flat which is exceptionally expensive for 1 figure in HK.
Having said that - it was sold out in 3 hrs I am told.
So moral of the story is, buy in bulk from US, then hold for a few months till you see 1 or 2 on ebay, and sell it at $5 cheaper than that.
You will make your money back plus profit and you will feel great about it!
Its only going to get worst especially given there is insecticons, reflector and other third party products released....
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$200 for a single Deluxe?!?!?? Damn man... that's nearly how much I paid for Fortress Maximus!
And in here lies part of the problem. We may complain about sellers charging ridiculously high prices, but so long as there are people willing to pay these prices, then more sellers will continue to charge them. (-_-) If I paid $200 for a Deluxe, that toy better be packaged in a gold-plated lead box hand delivered by Alexandria Mills, Ximena Navarrete, Jesinta Campbell, Ashleigh Francis and Maiko Itai!
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$200 HKD = $25 AUD$200 for a single Deluxe?!?!?? Damn man... that's nearly how much I paid for Fortress Maximus!
If you got Fort Max for that price, then you got the deal of the century
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actually 200hkd for a deluxe is okay.
wreckgar and preceptor deluxes gts are selling at near 230hkd
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