anime figures make me poor

;_;

are you Michael Kurt?

I ate a carrot once.

I bought a Polnereff + Silver Chariot figure... for FIVE BUCKS! :D

Not only are they pricy in Japan, but import store markup makes it even deadlier.  A cheap figure of that robot guy from FLCL costs 15 bucks at one nearby store.

>>5
that's actually HALF what it went for in japan, as are many of the figures you'll see in US comic shops.

How is that possible?

diamond (big US distributor) buys these figures in LARGE numbers, enough to occupy a shelf or two in specialty stores around the country. given that, i would estimate that there are more of these figures in the states than there are in japan. the flcl figures in your average comic shop have been sitting there for years. because they buy so many of the kaiyodo figures, and because the comic shop market won't pay $30 action figures when american figures run 10-15 at the worst, they're actually consistently cheaper than what you would get them for from japan. this happens with most figures, except for gundam fix toys which ship in unecessarily huge goddamn boxes that must cost a fortune to ship.

http://www.hlj.com/product/KYD51115
if it were even still in production, it'd run you $40 shipped.

Fuck diamond in its fucking non-competitive ass.

So they get a massive discount... but do they make a profit?

>>1
fucking weeaboo

FUCK YOU ANONYMOUDR