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Originally Posted by raz

I always see people talking about the lower prices of Sentai toys, but aside from quickies like Amiami, HLJ, CS Toys, Amazon, Ebay, or scouring Mandarake, I never see any decent guides or quick links of places, just discussion. Discussion is boring. I want to know where to enter my credit card number.

For the adult collectors, the lower prices are more accessible, and more easily if you know where to look. Supply, ease of access and patience are just as important as price and quality of product.

There's a reason I have a page on my blog dedicated to every nook and cranny you can find Power Rangers Super Megaforce, Megaforce and Legacy toys. If you ask me for a Legendary Megazord, I can give you millions of links online and item numbers for stores, but ask for an MMPR Green 5" figure, I can tell you Ebay and Amazon corner the secondary market and give you an idea of the chances of finding it at retail, not a "Oh wow, it'll probably be $20-30. Good luck finding it."

And if you ask us for information on import toys there are stickied threads in our marketplace for reliable sites to use. It's ridiculously easy to find what you're looking for when it comes to imports. I think most of the time people are simply not willing to make an effort to look and instead just assume it's too difficult or too expensive.

Go to Mandrake, go to Amazon Japan, Yahoo Japan. There are plenty of options to find this stuff cheaply/easily on the secondary market and this stuff pops up all the time on those sites. So again, the whole "Japanese toys are more/too expensive" thing really doesn't hold water a majority of the time. If people aren't willing to look around for a good price and would rather settle for what we're given in the US, that's fine. But saying those deals can't be found simply isn't true. Take that sweet & cheap Bragigas you got on Amazon for example.

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For the adult collectors, the lower prices are more accessible, and more easily if you know where to look. Supply, ease of access and patience are just as important as price and quality of product.

That statement sums up my exact point. And seeing as these items are for collectors anyway, it really shouldn't be that difficult for one to understand how to find these things. Again the afformentioned sites may not stock each item 100% of the time but they are indispensable resources for finding such items. And other complimentary sites like FigInStock which alert you to specific search terms you set up with them aid in the search even more.

Quick links aren't a thing that can just be drummed up immediately for all Japanese imports. There isn't always a glut of those products floating about like on retail shelves in the US where they have to be clearanced every so often. It just isn't the same retail/business model. But it isn't difficult at all to search for these items either.