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Originally Posted by Orange Ranger

No, but it also wasn't about creating secondary market value for resellers and it definitely is now for the most part.

Well, with the ability to buy and sell on the internet, that's changed of course, but there's always been an issue of supply versus demand which has added more coin to the "scalper's pockets." It's just that during the recent years, it's become much more noticeable.

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Originally Posted by goldblade6

...Ok...

No, Den-O is right. You're examples are, as Den-O said, one offs. The best example is if your argument was correct, why isn't Mattel putting those MOTU figures, or the Ghostbuster line in stores?

The toy manufacturers give retailers a chance to sell an "exclusive" items, but those toy manufacturers give those retailers an incentive to do so, making it, a numbers and dollar signs game.

The fact that retailers sell "exclusive" or "limited edition" items from lines doesn't equate to "hey, we care about the collectors market" it's that they got paid by the manufacturer enough to cover any losses that come up because they take a chance on such items for "shelf warming."

Shinken-Red and Gold, are a prime example of this.