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Stern's price increases may be pushing me out of this hobby

By Doctor6

2 years ago


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    #120 2 years ago

    My unpopular, useless opinion:

    The market can sustain it. Stern has a 3000 unit backlog, inflation, cost of goods through the roof. Distributors don’t and won’t have significant inventory until middle/end of next year at this rate. Look at the prices from the last Tennessee auction ffs.

    Personally I don’t know if I’m still in yet. Definitely have to see products before I buy. Interested in cactus and Godzilla but will probably throw $ at a 6500 Godzilla before I buy a 7500$ entry level cactus canyon. I’m done with fomo.... I gotta see the game first. I’m also probably done with American.... tired of waiting for any kind of announcement from that company.

    Price has gone up over 2k at this point since lotr... over 1k since gb. The games have less stuff in them. You can tell when you look at mando that there was a limit on the bom, all the way down to the number of screws they used on it lol. Doesn’t mean it’s a shitty game at all. (It does mean that I had to spend $300 on wireforms and an animatronic grogu though lol). Stern is in business to make money, they’re not unicef. It is what it is.

    Mike

    #121 2 years ago
    Quoted from Guidotorpedo:

    My unpopular, useless opinion:
    The market can sustain it. Stern has a 3000 unit backlog, inflation, cost of goods through the roof. Distributors don’t and won’t have significant inventory until middle/end of next year at this rate. Look at the prices from the last Tennessee auction ffs.
    Personally I don’t know if I’m still in yet. Definitely have to see products before I buy. Interested in cactus and Godzilla but will probably throw $ at a 6500 Godzilla before I buy a 7500$ entry level cactus canyon. I’m done with fomo.... I gotta see the game first. I’m also probably done with American.... tired of waiting for any kind of announcement from that company.
    Price has gone up over 2k at this point since lotr... over 1k since gb. The games have less stuff in them. You can tell when you look at mando that there was a limit on the bom, all the way down to the number of screws they used on it lol. Doesn’t mean it’s a shitty game at all. (It does mean that I had to spend $300 on wireforms and an animatronic grogu though lol). Stern is in business to make money, they’re not unicef. It is what it is.
    Mike

    Of course this is assuming that we don’t have some kind of Lehman bros collapse or the taliban doesn’t fly one of our old f-15s up our ass. Then all bets are off

    #131 2 years ago
    Quoted from usandthem:

    Stern BTTF FOMO will be like you've never seen it before. Everyone (including myself) and their grandmother will want it. I've been in the hobby 12 years, and it will most likely be my first NIB (if I can get one).

    Ehhhhhh...... ok. I mean I can see it flying off the shelf. I can wait.

    #132 2 years ago

    LOL.... 0-100, right into a wall bro

    #143 2 years ago
    Quoted from Mike_J:

    What are you talking about? Not remotely close.

    I was paying 3250-3450 for lotr.

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    #150 2 years ago

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