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Are you going to buy figures at a price point of $13 dollars a figure?

yes, and buy one of each
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yes, but limit the figures I buy
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I would even pay more
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No way!
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Offline The Spectre

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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2015, 10:21:27 AM »
At this point, I have to admit that action figures have priced themselves out of my comfort zone.

I am done.

I have enough figure fodder to customize for another 20 years or more so I can just make my own characters.

Ditto on vehicle and diorama fodder.
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2015, 05:38:22 AM »
I think a lot of folks will wait for sales or clearance now that they are going to this type of price point. I got out of doing one of each when they went to ten dollars a figure. Now they are going to thirteen and I see no end in sight. I can't wait to hear their answer to that question when Dan goes to Toy Fair. I bet we hear the same old thing cost of tooling, etc. they sure can't say its the cost of petroleum now as it has gone way down!
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2015, 07:29:02 AM »
$13 for that size is way too much, $8 was my limit. I quit collecting the 3.75" and got into the 6", which $20 is hard to swallow. If those go up anymore Im done with action figures.
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2015, 03:46:29 PM »
I have to say that with the base of $9.99 today i have to be selective with my purchases. If they do go to $13.99 that means i'll even be more selective. But it does mean that i will have to do more bargain hunting the Discount Box stores (I did find a great deal @ my local Ross for the Holidays) and the web.
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2015, 06:14:47 PM »
I don't know what to say, we are paying 12,99€ for EVERY 3,75" figures. :(
And what do we got? Wave 1 and 2 with all the problem they had, production errors, loose arms, blisters falling off.

The only stores with never figures are toys R us and a comic shop, but toys is to far away from where iam living and the figures at the comic shop cost 13,99€. The 6inch figures are at 25 - 30€, my girlfriend bought me the prototype Boba and paid 29,99€ for it.
Yeah it has become a real pain in the a** to collect SW Toys in some parts of germany.
Figures which never came here:

The Solo Twins Wave LC
The 2 Geonosis Battle Sets
The 2 Scanning Crew Sets
The New Speeder Bike 3,75"
CW Mandalorian Packs

You've been able to get some via internet, but the prices have been... well... you get the pictue.  :'(

So, no i won't pay anymore than the curret price. Iam allready at my limit.
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2015, 04:00:01 AM »
With the way they are releasing new figures nowadays its not like you have to worry about them inundating the market!
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2015, 10:28:40 PM »
$13.99 is more than I am willing to pay. However, I would be very surprised to see that pricing point become the norm in the U.S. Also, as a number of folks have already noted, there are enough sales where you wouldn't have to pay that much for the bulk of the new figures that would be released. 
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2015, 07:59:25 PM »
 I did notice that over the weekend, when we went to 2 different Wal-marts in the area and they still had some figures @ 9.99, not a lot of them but a few.
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Re: How much will you pay?
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2015, 03:55:40 AM »
It is beginning to look like this might not be a Hasbro thing, but a retailer thing.
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