Siege stock - is it scalpers or just limited supply from Hasbro?

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I don't know what mainland stores are like, but the factor to keep in mind is the local retailers aren't like mine, so taking every toy from them is a significant inconvenience.
Especially considering the Siege line isn't actually being stocked at this moment near me.

At the moment, I'd prefer to purchase the toys in person and examine them before getting them, because of something that went horribly wrong when I tried to purchase an Inferno Combiner toy.
There was a detail I couldn't see clearly and it was a defect, so I had to return the product.

That's why I'm forgoing internet orders for now, just because I can't look at the product personally.

The only one I have ordered is Siege Commander Jetfire, because I'm 100% certain I want him.
And the only company I could find in Australia who accepted my Jetfire preorder is Minotaur Entertainment, Melbourne.

Another complication is that my local retailers don't order the Titan class toys, I never saw a Metroplex or Trypticon and only saw one Fortress Maximus at Myers before he was sold and never restocked.
I'm still uncertain if I want to purchase Siege Omega Supreme or not, but if I do, I'd want to do this in person, because the size of the box may result in expensive shipping fees.

If you stack your order at BBTS with their Pile of Loot system and ship it after 3 months, allowing you to build up a 'larger shipment' the cost of shipping works out much less per figure. most larger international estores have a similar system. I have found it very beneficial in the past, especially for waves of figures where I wanted to buy entire cases of the toys.

The flaw with the Inferno Combiner toy wasn't something BigBadToys could fix, Hasbro basically packed the wrong combiner modules with him and when I insisted on a replacement, they just sent another mispacked toy and considered the case closed.
My next step was to take him back to Kmart and get my refund.

When I had an issue with Generations Blitzwing having 2 left arms, BBTS sent me a junker with the correct arm, free of charge so I could swap it out. they are very good with this kind of service. I have heard other similar stories from people buying at the larger international estores.
I'm also confidant that most local estores would also do their best to replace items like that for you.

I agree with Gok about what a scalper is. IMO a person who buys multiples for their own collection (No matter how they choose to display them) is not a scalper.

I have no issues with a person buying multiples. First come first serve. Hence why I pre order almost all my stuff online so I won't miss out.

Totally this, I literally have hundreds of Transformers still MISB, it's not because I plan on flipping them, I just buy them faster than I open them so I end up with a 'ballast' of unopened toys. I sometimes buy something with the intent that I don't miss out on it in case I decide I want it in my collection rather than paying after market prices a couple years down the track.

And also, if you have issue with people purchasing 2 copies of a figure for their own collection, I suggest you stay away from Macross Valkyrie collecting. Most collectors get 3 of every release with some getting 4. That’s one for fighter mode, one for gerwalk, one for battroid and one to keep MISB.

That shit be cray cray, I could never afford a collection that demanded 4 of everything.

I do buy multiples. the Generations and titan master scourge, I bought Hasbro multiples and one of the Takara version to have a 'scourge with sweeps'.

I and pretty much every other hard core collector will be chasing down 3 of the up coming refractor figure to be able to make the camera mode that demands 3 off. I have heard that Hasbro are even packing them 3 to a case of eight. but then this will cause problems, any one store seems lately to only be getting 1 or 2 cases in at any one time, that allows for only 2 collectors, and there are a lot of us out there. Then what happens when someone just buys one refractor? that means someone wanting 3 can buy the 2 there and will have to look for another case somewhere else.

I can tell you something for free, I'm no scalper, I even went to the extreme of only picking up the legion class Transformers Prime Vehicon one at a time on single visits to the store, I think I ended up with about 4 or 5.