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NewbieNub wrote on 2010-05-03 17:46
[Image: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/Nyaruato/2m334pl.jpg]
It's 12 inches high, made from polystone and finished off with "Hands on painting"... or at least they claimed it that way.
I'm going to get it, good bye money in bank account ;_;
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RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-05-03 17:53
It probably costs them 20 cents too make... or less.
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MiniSoda wrote on 2010-05-03 18:04
230$ for THAT thing? ...
Waste a money IMO :\
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NewbieNub wrote on 2010-05-03 18:04
My Mito Mashiro figurine was USD $182.
This is 50 dollars more... WITHOUT the shipping cost.
Shipping cost to Asia would probably be like... $40?
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-03 19:00
Combined with shipping cost I can build a server for the average home at that price :<
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Laconicus wrote on 2010-05-03 19:02
Orr, 230 hamburgers at McDonald's. Just a thought.
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Iyasenu wrote on 2010-05-03 19:11
Your talk of hamburgers makes me hungry :<
My mouth can eat over 2 hamburgers per minute.
it costs 26cents to keep me eating for 12 seconds
er... anyways that may or may not be true :p
neat figurine though.
i'm not good at shooters, thus i've never actually play TF2 xD
Quote from Laconicus;26979:
Orr, 230 hamburgers at McDonald's. Just a thought.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-05-03 19:15
Polystone.
Hands on Paint.
All inferior results. Paint tends to wear off on polystone after a few years. And hands on paint doesn't mean its better than machine paint. In fact I prefer machine paint as long as its accurate.
PVC is cheaper, has better texture for a figurine, and doesn't break when dropped. Probably would've looked the same but for around 100 dollars.
They're just jerks, trying to make this as unbuyable as possible for "collector's" purposes.
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NewbieNub wrote on 2010-05-03 20:00
Quote from kitaek27;26994:
Polystone.
Hands on Paint.
All inferior results. Paint tends to wear off on polystone after a few years. And hands on paint doesn't mean its better than machine paint. In fact I prefer machine paint as long as its accurate.
PVC is cheaper, has better texture for a figurine, and doesn't break when dropped. Probably would've looked the same but for around 100 dollars.
They're just jerks, trying to make this as unbuyable as possible for "collector's" purposes.
Damn right. Theres only 700 of these out there.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-03 22:04
Quote from NewbieNub;27032:
Damn right. Theres only 700 of these out there.
And then 700 more at any time the manufacturer feels like making another 160k.
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-03 22:09
so 700 X 230 - 700 X 0.20 = 160 860$ of profit? :[
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-05-03 22:11
Quote from Chocklitshop;27150:
so 700 X 230 - 700 X 0.20 = 160 860$ of profit? :[
There's material cost, production cost, tax, delivery, and the profit is suddenly much much lower.
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-03 22:12
Quote from kitaek27;27155:
There's material cost, production cost, tax, delivery, and the profit is suddenly much much lower.
Rawr. :/ I taught that usually the customers pay the tax and delivery ._.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-05-03 22:14
Quote from Chocklitshop;27158:
Rawr. :/ I taught that usually the customers pay the tax and delivery ._.
Study economy.
Tax is actually shared between the consumer and the producer.
If you bought a product at 1 dollar and paid 7 cents in tax (assuming tax in your region is 7% like mine), the seller also takes a hit on the dollar they make and pay a certain percentage in tax.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-03 23:16
Too many taxes. We should all just bring a wagon full of crops to the government building old-style. I wouldn't be surprised if that's still legal in some areas seeing how people forget to update laws and crap from the 1850's can still be used against you.