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I sometimes feel bad for buying 2 or 3 of something when I know I'm buying it to sell it. However!!!! I never sell things for scalper prices! I might charge $10-20 more than retail once it's not available in the store anymore, but I always try to price the item on par with what a gift-needing adult would need to pay for Canadian shipping which is about $10-20 on average
I broke down and bought both limited editions (shoppie and shoppet) on ebay. One person, according to their auction, had 25 of Mystabella and was selling them for just over $100 each. Seeing how there were only 10,000 produced, and not sure if they were just released in the US, how much traveling did that individual do to accumulate so many? And then how many actually landed in the hands of kids and collectors versus scalpers?
Not really. I have found the type of person who goes and hoards all of a locally available desirable toy (or sets up proxies to get more than their fair share of a limited web release), who inserts themselves as the middleman nobody wanted or asked for to nickel and dime collectors...they don't seem to care about your "sob stories". Of the people I have known who do this, some are just trying to get by, so ok, do what you've gotta do...but more often I've found they think they're smarter and superior to the rest of us for discovering this "loophole" to "free money"*. When really the rest of us are just not selfish enough to do it. If you wanna do that curation get a Tax ID and open an legit online toystore.I realllllly do not like flippers who buy out the local stores and create an artificial supply and demand, can you tell? *This was mostly friends I made in various communities who ceased to be friends once I realized how kinda awful they were. Mostly people from the US.Edit: I am the type of person that if I happen across the hot toy of a year for the holidays that I'm looking for for someone (kid) I know...I will purchase one extra. Not to flip, but just in case the parents of another local kid can't find/afford ebay prices for it and give it to them at retail cost. I didn't know until last year that my dad does it too.
I'm confused, why do you like Shopkins?