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At face value exclusives don't cost that much more than the retail figures - like 1000-1500 yen at the most (although with prices seemingly having gone up a bit recently on both sides, the difference might start getting a bit wider, idk).

People seem to forget that the prices they pay on Amiami etc. are considerably lower than the prices Bandai set. Example, Amiami might be charging 3140 yen for Mach but his RRP according to the Tamashii website is 4320 yen.

So Bandai aren't suddenly ripping you off with exclusives, the stores you buy from are the ones making the price gap more noticeable. As for middleman fees and the like, again Bandai can hardly be blamed for that - not everything is going to be retail and more often than not the choices of what's retail and what's TWE are pretty justified.