[KaiserBlue]

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

Import fees causes prices to go up. I know the people who work at Image Anime for years and they are not a bunch of greddy scalpers.

I never said they were greedy scalpers, but they did charge insane prices for even domestic retail items like the legacy line. $500 for the tommy morpher while it was still on shelves 5 blocks away at ToysRUs. I understand they needed to make a profit, and pay for the inflated rent that a downtown retail space would cost in NYC, but sometimes their pricing on things really crossed the line, like when they actually did scalp on bluefin releases. The most recent one being the Best Selection Ultraman for $65, when as a Bluefin retailer, it should've been $35-$38. Im not saying they're greedy, and i understand why the price on non- bluefin imports is high, but on other things, the insane prices just make you wonder. Plus, a lot of their stock is off ebay. I've seen them get packages of product from Ebay all the time, i doubt the import cost are that bad when they buy stuff dirt cheap off there in bulk and resell at their crazy margins, especially the henshin trinkets.

They've even bought off other Bluefin retailers at cons and sold the products for insane markups at their stall. They cleared out a few stalls stock of Gp ride watches, at one con, for $6-$7 dollars each and resold at $18-$21 each at their stall. In my earlier comments i never insuated they were greedy scalpers, but their buisness practices really look it.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.