Why are DC toys so difficult to find?

Going to the store is too hard.

>>11449269 (OP)
They keep moving them around and hiding them from us.

>>11449269 (OP)
Todd keeps organising for his trucks to get stolen so that he can create even more artificial scarcity.

>>11449269 (OP)
Just make your own dc figures Jarret. Todd gave you all the tools.

>>11449269 (OP)
For every two that arrive at the docks, one goes to a store and the other disappears.

>>11449269 (OP)

Are you trying to fight me or team up with me?

>powergirl spammer is literally a paranoid schizophrenic
That explains a lot.

You come into my thread and demand my attention by hijacking it with your obnoxious bullshit. What the fuck do you want?

>>11449335
Seek help dude holy shit

>>11449269 (OP)
I just want an updated Infinite Crisis Peej.

Ask the dc general? Oh wait, they buy toys they just bitch about whats being posted

>>11449270
But being stupid or an imbecile is easy?

What kind of outdoor entertaining set up do your dc figures prefer? Me and my toys enjoy a nice patio.

>>11449269 (OP)
Artificial scarcity for popular characters and garbage undesirables pegwarming shelves everywhere

>>11449764
They really started giving more classic design figures waaaay too late. And their marekting is really weak as well, ìts hard to pre order figures when youve got to use a divining rod to discern where they are available and when they go on sale.

>>11449764
>>11449974
Agreed. He seems to release alot of figures and frequently but so much is either garbage or unobtainable.

What's weird, though, is that the demand seems somewhat manufactured. I go a few toy shows each year, some as a customer and others as a dealer. DC's never been as everywhere as Marvel Legends, but McFarlane has had very little presence even compared to Mattel and DCD/DCC.

I picked up both Arkham City and DKR Catwoman figures for MSRP ($20). In fact, the Arkham one, I got it at a show the following year from the one I saw it. Talk about low demand. For the Question, I paid $10 over the $25 MSRP. Right now, I'm looking at an eBay listing of the dealer that used to set up next to me, and he's trying to get $145 for it! Good luck man. I had the same luck trying to flip an extra classic WW. That's approaching $200 some places but I couldn't get $40 for it! I have an extra Power Girl I'll bring to my big show in the fall and I'll bet I can't make $10 on it.

It'll be interesting to see how the line fares once the license lapses and it's entirely in the rearvie mirror.

>>11449764
>Artificial scarcity for popular characters
It’s for everything mcfarlane is doing now.
>low production runs
>limited online availability
>rest of the limited stock goes to brick and mortar
Amazon example

>>11450060
Fuck this company

Here's a question: how does McFarlane benefit from artificial scarcity, i.e. NOT selling figures to people? It benefits scalpers sure, but it would make a lot more sense if McFarlane made close to the demand rather than drastically under demand.

>>11450092
Their products appear desirable and in demand thus box stores buy his product to generate foot traffic from retards on wild goose chases. The retailers don’t care about the sales they care about the traffic. The limited quantities benefit mcfarlane because it’s guaranteed profit.

>>11450103
Never forget Todd gloating on stream about retailers loving him for this exact reason.

>>11450103
But then why has walmart dropped DCMV to the slow moving collectors section?

>>11450185
You have to walk all the way to the back through the whole store to get there.

>>11450192
I don't think Walmart realizes but when we plastic addicts are on their way to toys, we aren't able to see anything else. Our bulging eyes scan the aisles looking only for the sweet satisfaction of little plastic people. So trying to get us to buy something else we might see is futile.

I find them all the time.
Just not Power girl.

>>11450092
I never understood it but Matty Collector used to openly promote artificial scarcity and I never understood how it benefited them. Other than the idea that they thought scalpers were their primary audience so artificial scarcity was just a FOMO tactic for them.

>>11450583
Well I think in MattyCollector's case they used the (potentially legitimate) scarcity of the individual releases to push subscriptions. The subscriptions allowed them to push alot of less desirable stuff. The fact that is was largely sight-unseen (they showed you 3-4 of the 12-15 you were committing to) allowed them to push Eternals-level Ollies fodder.

>>11450519
This. I mean, I'll buy other stuff once you've dragged me to the store, but only if I find when I went for. No toy, no pens or paper towels or whatever else you wanted me to buy.

I remember when you used to be able to get DC Multiverse figures for 8-12 bucks on clearance. No more. Places are refusing to mark anything down anymore and the prices are mostly going up.

>>11450092
If Todd genuinely cared about making as much money as possible he wouldn’t be doing retarded shit like chase variants, he just thinks figures are supposed to be for speculative market collectors like they were in the 90s and we’ve long moved past that

Todd wants you to have as sassy of a time collecting figures as he has collecting baseball cards.

>>11450736
I thought he collected baseballs hit by notorious juicers?

>>11449375
Is that a penis?

>>11456342
yes