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| Subject: | Re: Like Baseball cards, you buy a box and don't know what you got ..... |  |
| Date: | Dec 23, 2007 |
| From: | Damon Agretto | |
Ultimately this is a marketing gimmick to get people to spend more money than they normally would on a given product, in order to "complete" it. For example (and I fall prey to this, I readily admit), with the collectable game format, the set is usually seeded with a small number of highly desirable pieces or items, and then filled out with a number of "commons." Thus, in order to get those rares and ultra-rares, you buy pack after pack in the hopes of getting that item. In the end you spend several hundred dollars getting that coveted item, but now have hundreds of otherwise worthless items in order to get to it. Or you can trade someone else who also collects to fill out the collection. This is to make it more "fun" or "challenging" to the consumer, but in the end merely makes it more frustrating and expensive (entire BBSs and email lists have been created JUST to connect people who want to trade) to complete the set. I strongly dislike the idea, but as I said, if I want to collect HALO gaming figures (FREX), I HAVE to deal with the fact they are pre-paints and they are sold randomized.
But then there's ebay...
Damon. |
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 | Finemolds Incom T-65 X-Wing Fighter in 1/48th - Frank Forster - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . X-Wing, cannot wait for - frank forster - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . 1/35th scale - Paul A. Owen - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . . . . There IS a 1/35th scale version being released... [IMG] - Val Bueno - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: There IS a 1/35th scale version being released... - Paul A. Owen - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: There IS a 1/35th scale version being released... - michael hutchinson - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: 1/35th scale - frank forster - Dec 22, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . "trade" kit - Paul A. Owen - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: "trade" kit - Damon Agretto - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: "trade" kit - Paul A. Owen - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not many parts - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Dec 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Like Baseball cards, you buy a box and don't know what you got ..... - Valentin E. Bueno - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Like Baseball cards, you buy a box and don't know what you got ..... - Paul A. Owen - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Like Baseball cards, you buy a box and don't know what you got ..... - Damon Agretto - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Next from Dragon "Trade Kits" - Paul A. Owen - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . They already do. - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Dec 24, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Finemolds Incom T-65 X-Wing Fighter in 1/48th - frank forster - Jan 2, 2008 |
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