[Chasing]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

It depends on the series. With Ex-Aid and Zi-O, for instance, most of their figures are pretty easy to get on Manda for cheap with the exception of certain popular or rare outliers like Dangerous Zombie and Ohma Zi-O. However, most of the Build and Zero-One figures became more expensive, rare or both on the aftermarket instead -- I've basically had to give up all hopes of ever getting Rogue or Valkyrie with how high their prices have risen. It's generally only the retail stuff that escapes that fate, but even then Rising Hopper has also gone up in price.

It doesn't depend on anything. Some of them take longer than others, but it always happens. I've never seen a Figuart that didn't hit a price below its MSRP at least once; not even the modern ones. When you're buying secondhand, people can throw on their own price tags, and sometimes people are desperate.

Mandarake is great but it isn't the gold standard for secondhand. I've seen plenty of good deals on AmiAmi, Okini, Ebay, and even Twitter. There are always outliers but their days will always come, too. The Dangerous Zombie I bought earlier this year was only 70 USD and it came from Ebay. Same guy was selling 3 of them.

Valkyrie is still very recent, so I definitely wouldn't hold my breath, but I'd still keep an eye out. I've seen multiple Rogues for less than 70 USD, which is still higher than the original MSRP, but not bad at all for such a prominent character. You'll definitely see more Rogue figures like that next year, since Prime Rogue has an updated head mold. The first batch of RabbitRabbit, if you can find it, is relatively cheap for similar reasons.

Retail releases are so cheap it's honestly hard for me to see them dipping below MSRP on the aftermarket, unless it's something that was kind of too expensive to begin with, like Shooting Wolf.