Boy those TT Animated Exclusives are getting expensive.

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... which I would pay AU$30 for, but not US$30.

That extra A$0.86 is a deal breaker, eh?

And why are there price estimates on LUCKY DRAW prize toys?? Those toys aren't meant to have RRPs or meant to be even available for retail sale... aren't they supposed to be given away free as ... ya know... lucky draw prizes?!?

I'm delighted to receive lucky draw toys if I win them, but I'd never pay for one. Kinda defeats the whole point of it IMHO

Because that's the estimated cost for a collector to collect them.

Refusing to pay aftermarket prices for any item (regardless of whether the seller acquired it for free or as a prize), seems to me to defeat the whole point of collecting. I understand your own choice to not want, but to insinuate that it "defeats the whole point of it" bewilders me greatly. Would that also mean that:

• Importing toys to Australia that are meant for the Japanese market defeats the whole point of it?
• Buying G1 Reflector with money instead of robot points defeats the whole point of it?
• Buying toys in 2010 made to be sold in 1984 defeats the whole point of it?

It seems to be a very basic tenet of collecting anything that people will buy things they want, regardless of its original purpose and price, without defeating the point of anything.