It's a super rare lottery item, being listed by a small independent business.

This is true.
Just found one 100.00 less a bit ago.. I kinda hope it’s a cool thing over time, with maybe exclusive forms or unreleased stuff being sold..

Woah that taka guy is a crook it’s like your paying for his rent.

His price is just as bad as ebay.

Glad I never bought anything from him and the figuart is not worth that much should be $150.00 the most.

I know no one gives a flipping fuck about etymology anyways, but here we go.
Scalping deals in artificial scarcity. Ichiban Kuji Horobi is no artificial scarcity, he is the rarest one in the line up and is thus intentionally scarce. If this was scalping, Taka would be somehow in possession of multiples of this Horobi and jacking up the price. But he doesn't or presumably he isn't because it would be financially demanding to do so.

He is simply matching the demand for him. Check Yahoo Auctions and you'll find plenty of this Horobi going for 150-250+. And if you say that you found one for less than that, try outbidding someone then.

I'm a little heated, but that's because I've no patience for unfair slander on small businesses. His prices are not the cheapest obviously, but doesn't mean he is this or that.

He's a super nice small independent business, fucking excuse him trying to make as much as he can off a literal lottery item.

Taka is one of the nicest people in this fandom, and I hate people whining about a man trying to make a living while running a small business.

If an item is rare, it costs more. If it's harder for the middlemen to acquire, they need to sell it for more to make a living. It's really not that hard of a concept to grasp.

Be mad at Tamashii for producing lottery items if you want to be mad, not at the secondary market.

How dare a man-

*rolls dice*

- sell the rarest lottery item he won and wants to make a profit over its rarity.

Well this got serious real quick 😳. Hey everyone no need to get worked up over someone's reaction to the price of an item...I'm sure we all understand how demand and pricing works when it comes to a legitimate limited item. If the going rate for the lucky draw Horobi is the same as the original figuart then someone will be better off getting that one.

Atleast that one has the weapon and I'll admit I don't like how the clear variant looks but was wondering what it might be going for since it comes with less despite being a lottery item

It sucks for us International fans who are fans of Kamen Rider and understand that we may never be part of that target audience for products like this but hopefully one day that'll change even for a limited time

Sorry your getting yourself upset over another man’s business practice…
I’m ONLY worried about MY bottom line when it comes to collecting. I really don’t care WHAT he sells his stuff for, I was just pointing out the price.
If it was so super scarce(*none* of these are if you look hard enough), I wouldn’t see so many online for various prices. Taka is doing Taka, snd that’s good for him, but not for my wallet, and I buy to SAVE money, not to give it away needlessly when there’s other choices. His price on this Figuarts IS “scalper high”