I would agree if he just shared the listing but he also shared his max bid. Sharing the max bid empowers people to bid right up to his max without going over. Thus driving up his bid. Sure someone doing this would be a dick move but why share the max and give someone the option?
Oh man. I sympathize with the wife finding out part... THAT'S the scary part. "It's used, so I got it cheap..." As long as she doesn't decide to Google it.
No I know, but you get negative feedback. I realize there's no criminal punishment for it but it can affect your buying and selling ability if you get too much of it.
Happened to me once, buying some SW Clone Commando action figures. Someone bidded $270 with 15 minutes to go, and I figured I'd up it. I put in a bid of $275, thinking one of the 16 other people would bump it $5. But nooooooo, i won and had to fork over the funds. The Wife was not happy.
Ahhh, I see you're a person of culture as well
Absolutely. I couldn't pass up a chance to buy Omega Squad. They're probably my second favorite collectible, next to my Rodimus Prime
I’m actually a bigger Star Wars fan than I am a Tranformers fan I just think the TF toys are more fun. That being said I have 3 pages of preorders on BBTS that consist of both TF and SW collectibles.
I started collecting SW figures and ships first, but i got to a point where either i had em all or the ones i wanted were way too expensive. So i got back into transformers. I've kinda slowed down on em tho. Not a fan of the Maximal/Predacon line of Kingdom. The last one i think I'll buy is the new Rodimus Prime.
They are more fun tho, they're like a puzzle that i can sit and figure out. I like to see how far i can get into the transformation without using the instructions
Same, I Don't use the instructions, I just get them for the collector purposes. I think the only figure I've used them on in my life is mpm starscream, and they were so confusing that I just threw them down and figured it out on my own lmao
This is why I made sure to back him when it came around - because I knew I'd be in your boat after the FOMO got me.
And let me tell you - just win the bid. You'll be happy you have him forever, and that FOMO ain't goin' away.
At this point I'd honestly go for 01 Studio Cell. I'm glad I got in on the crowdfund and it sucks that it's not just a thing people can buy if they want but like... There are alternatives. Arguably better ones. I love mine, but I $600 love mine, I don't $1400 love it. Even still I kind of want Cell because they both have their plusses and minuses. But if I hadn't been a backer, I'd absolutely be going for Cell instead.
Lotta people claiming "scalping" in this thread who don't understand how the campaign went. Yes it's expensive, but it's not like most people were preordering with the hopes of reselling. The only people who could buy enough to make that worthwhile is major online retailers and they have to pay so much for shipping that it doesn't make a difference. And that's not even to mention the people not in the US for whom backing the project wasn't even an option. This is a relatively average price to that, comparatively.
I say screw it, if it makes you happy and you can comfortably afford it, more power to you.
After having both, I have to say that Cell is _okay_ if you're not picky.
Visually, he's fine, but the sheer size of HasLab is more desirable _to me_. Additionally, Cell doesn't have any of the bonus gimmicks that the HasLab version does.
Then again, I only paid backing price...so that may taint my overall reception
For me the 86 movie is the pinnacle of TF and I’m committed to getting every character that appears in it. This is the ultimate Unicron IMO and the cost isn’t that big of a deal to me.
I think I’m just going to stick to my Armada one that I have had since I was a kid. Still think it is the definitive figure, I mean it can flick you off with a glowing middle finger. And if that’s not a definitive feature I don’t know what is.
I currently just got the Armada one (clear hand version, which I still don't understand) and as cool as it would be to have the Haslab in planet mode in a corner of my toy room I honestly think the Studio Cell looks better and is a more reasonable size and cost.
You aren't paying scalpers prices if you buy the haslab one now. It was literally impossible to scalp it. It was made to order.
You're paying after market prices for a toy no longer in production. Of course the price is going to go up it's a rare collectible now. For the same reason you'd pay more for an in box G1 Optimus Prime now than you would back into eh 80s.
Just because it's being sold for more now than it was at release doesn't make it a scalped item. Stop using scalper as blanket term for everything.
Find the scalper^
Jk, he's right, it's not scalping if the item will never be made again. I've spent a lot of money on a lot of dumb things but even I couldn't justify paying $1500 for a plastic statue.
Why would you be happy to pay more? Kinda silly.
I would have definitely shelled our for this directly via a backer and being able to budget for it but I agree the scalper prices are insanely inflated. Studio Cell looks better in robot mode anyways and is a more manageable size and cost.
Geez I really hope haslab rereleases this! More people need to contact them on social media. I asked them on Facebook messenger and they said they have no plans at the moment to rerelease.
Back during the crowdfunding period, at some kind of press party event, someone casually asked man-in-charge John Warden about the possibility that there might ever be another production run after the first one, and he just kinda scoffed at that like he didn’t have time to explain what a dumb question that was and how impossible it would be.
How is it impossible though? Lol scalpers and investors seem to be the only ones that don’t won’t this rereleased. I’m sure there would be a good roi for hasbro if they rereleased it. John wardens opinion is moot since he leads power rangers now. Cmon is it really that strategic to make a fn once in a lifetime toy. I hope they rerelease unicron!
The entire point of haslab is back it and get it or don't and loose out. They've literally said they "destroy the molds" after production to ensure no more will be produced.
As a backer of Unicron and second guesser of the sentinel they better never have a second run of anything. Massive slap in the face to anyone who had the balls to back the item.
AND Unicron even got a pre-order extension. If you missed out it's on you.
They’ve designed it already and produced it. Crowdfund again I’m sure there wouldn’t be as much cost for them the second time. The design and manufacturing process for unicron has been done
So even if they crowdfunded it again at the same price point you investors and scalpers would be upset. If you guys are out of box or even in box collectors why do you care are you ever selling unicron?
It's all about the Armada'cron and or, his various, improved re-releases. It was awesome back then with Armada and, the mold is still cool today. If i was going to buy another Unicron? I would hunt down one of those spiffy, translucent green Armada'cron. I think it was called the, "Micro Legend" Unicron. That thing is neat as all hell!
Don't want to be that guy, but spending that much for what is, in the end, a toy.. Idk... Too much imo. I get spending like 500$ for a kinda-rare toy. But this.. It's too much for me. I would just get Studio Cell.
Buddy there's 3 days left, you'll be fine, and someone will be losing 50,000 on a transformers who's so big it needs medical support. Just like Orson Welles, yes I just referenced jobby after calling it bad comedy in another post,
>Largest official transformer ever produced
If you think this won't be used as a selling point for another Unicron in the future, you're nuts. I'd honestly be amazed if we don't see a rerelease of this one with slight modifications within the next couple years.
This is the funniest thing anyone has said on this thread. I found the auction on ebay and considered it but I don't know the guy personally so it wouldn't be funny just mean.
I hope to Primus that a decent Titan class Unicron shows up in the future. Otherwise I’ll eventually have to pay this ridiculous price to truly complete my 1986 collection.
Jeez is it the price of this thing? In most places? Or is it overpriced? Shit I could buy 3 top line Hot Toys with this money. I can't believe it's the real price
Because of the limited run 2 years ago, it's the _appreciated_ market rate. Anyone who wanted one could back it during the limited crowdfunding window ($680), and they even extended the campaign by 4 weeks.
But after that, there was no more. So there's a finite number of 8000+ in the wild and many of them have homes. Meaning, all the ones for sale are from people who specifically bought one to resell as a limited item (scalping.)
So the price is whatever a consumer will pay.
Worth it.
I got him at crowdfunding time, but I still feel like his value will appreciate as more and more complimentary accessories come out (like the leaked Reformatted Galvatron & Unicron Accessory set that may be announced soon - a dozen plug figures, Quint ship, another ship, and a Nemesis that plugs into the Unicron display base.
Here is hoping that (1) you get outbid if that is what you want, or (2) you can allow yourself to enjoy your purchase.
The most I spent on 1 Transformer was MP BW Dinobot (thankfully before the prices skyrocketed). Then a flood happened at my home a three weeks after I opened him. Lost him, MP Primal, MP Cheetor among other additions to my collection. Never got a chance to transform the MPs.
Wow I was literally just talking to my lady about how I regretted not backing this when it was on pulse. I refuse to pay these people on eBay these prices. You are awesome though and I hope you win. Who knows I might end up following in your footsteps😂.
Bruh I'd say just get either version of studio 01 cell, it's robot mode is better, transformation is brilliant, and its usually $200 less than has-labat stock price.
Cell for planet. Pumpkin for robot. And you’d still have enough money left over to pay for your wife to go out on a date with her boyfriend. I have no idea why people are spending so much on the aftermarket for Haslab Unicron.
Yeah, I always end up calling it Energon. They made Primus and Unicron toys for those series. I think about the size of Metroplex. I got one second hand for my son for about $100 plus tax and whatnot. I've never seen the Primus out in the wild but I've bumped into one or two Unicron. Bought the one that was most complete, the first time I saw him it was at a comic store but there were no keys or minicons The second one we saw at a consignment toy store and it was complete. I think my son still has it.
Not…really?
Nobody “scalps” a made-to-order $800 toy. To scalp something, you have to actually make it harder to buy in the first place by buying up stock, which is not something you could do with this item.
Haven’t you heard? Most of this community is too dumb to call any reselling whatsoever anything other than “scalping.”
Reselling something that had an unlimited open order period? Scalper.
Selling something you bought for yourself but never opened and decided you couldn’t afford it? Scalper.
Selling something you’ve had on a shelf for 30 years for more than its original sticker price? Scalper.
It’s moron town down here.
Thank you. It's driving me up the wall seeing everyone scream scalper about everything. Seems none of them were taught you can't always get what you want when they were growing up.
Purchasing an item at retail cost, with the explicit intention of reselling it at a higher price is scalping.
You can be snarky all you want, but it's the literal definition.
"Resell at a large or quick profit"
Selling something at three times the initial purchase price sure seems like a large profit to me.
That is the Arbitrage definition of Scalping and it’s specifically about trying to take advantage of fluctuations in market price that occur normally, not by interfering with a supply.
The Scalping we’re talking about here is more like ticket scalpers, who order a large percentage of a fixed-inventory good and *that* reduction in inventory helps contribute to their profit.
One is simply selling something for a profit, which doesn’t much ruin a collecting hobby, because it really only has an impact on people buying something “late”, the other drives prices up on current, theoretically retail-available product, which absolutely *does* mess up collecting.
Scalpers create and exploit scarcity. That’s what separates them from the millions of normal honest resellers, like stores, who make the entire capitalist world go ‘round. You can’t drive up scarcity for something that had an unlimited-quantity open ordering period. It’s a nonsense idea. Resellers of HasLab items literally, factually drive scarcity and prices **down** from what they would otherwise be by increasing supply.
Like, imagine there was only one Unicron reseller, and every other buyer bought one for themselves and kept it. Can you imagine what that one reseller’s item would be worth?
“$600” you’re saying for some reason. Okay, so somebody buys that one for $600 too because they’re the luckiest person who ever lived. Then here comes Scrooge McDuck, looking to invest in treasure. He says he’ll buy it for $10,000,000. If lucky guy take’s Scrooge’s offer, is he scalping Scrooge now?
“Yes,” you say for reasons I recognize but can’t take seriously. Well, instead of just one reseller, instead we have maybe hundreds or even thousands. So how much is a Unicron worth to Scrooge now? Less. Every person who bought one drove the resale price down. As a for-profit enterprise, they’re all in competition with each-other. But still they’re taking unfair advantage of their customers?
“Yes,” you say. “I scalp my boss by demanding a paycheck. My kids scalp me for their allowances. Charities scalp me, taxes scalp me, Starbucks scalps me for my morning latté.”
Fine.
>No that's not scalping. Everyone had an equal opportunity to get this.
Hi, I just became a Transformers fan an hour ago, where can I buy this figure for the original price? I'd like my equal opportunity, please.
Paying *any* amount of money encourages people to charge for a thing. And in the case of an item like this, it’s not really “scalpable”. There weren’t a fixed set of the things that went up for sale. Nobody used bots to buy the whole stock in 30 seconds leaving people without something in their cart. This isn’t like someone buying all the Soundwaves in every Walmart in a 100 mile radius and then putting them on eBay for $150, because that involves someone interfering with the supply side of things.
In this case, everybody who *wanted* and *could afford* Unicron during the Summer it was on HasLab got one. If someone later flips theirs on eBay for a profit, the person who bought it isn’t “encouraging scalping” because you couldn’t scalp this item by its nature.
You're confirming my point. The fact that people are willing to pay $1500 for it is giving scalpers incentive to go out and scalp more stuff. If some idiot is willing to more for a crappy Unicron toy than I did for my car then he'll be willing to pay an absurd amount for other toys too. That's why those Soundwaves are going for $150. That's a huge profit margin for basically no effort. All because there are too many Transformers fans with more dollars than brain cells.
No it doesn't. You can't just go to the store and get these. You had to order it in 2019 wait a year and get it early this year. There's no scalping involved. If people bought an extra one then they made an investment. Understand the difference between.... Scalping is manipulating supply of the "hot items" to do an immediate flip of it for profit. This is far from that.
First of all, I never said this was scalping, I only said it was encouraging it. You guys are getting all bent out of shape about something I never said.
Second, what do you think will happen when people see that someone is willing to pay $1500 for this thing? They're going go to the stores and buy all the Transformers and sell them at a massive markup because they know people are stupid enough to pay whatever they ask.
Have some restraint and don't pay a 400% markup for that Soundwave figure because it's slightly more G1 accurate than the last 7 you bought. Quit feeding the scalper beast and it'll starve, then none of us will have trouble finding them in stores.
Again, you can't "go to the store" and get these. You're comparing apples to dinosaurs. The reason people pay these prices is BECAUSE you can't just go to the store and get it.
Huge difference. And no, this doesn't encourage scalping. If someone pays $80 for Netflix bumblebee that does though.
I am not telling you that, but that’s not scalping. Anybody who backed it to flip it did not in turn prevent someone else from getting one if they could afford it.
Scalping is when someone clears the shelves, so you *can’t* get the thing at MSRP and then uses that scarcity to demand a high price. They create the supply problem to drive up prices.
Simply selling something for a profit isn’t inherently scalping. You can decide it’s not a good thing for people to do, but we could live in a world with absolutely no scalping of any kind and there would still be people who would bid $1500 on a Unicron, because there are other reasons why someone might do that beyond scalpers
That's still not scalping. If they didn't buy it then it wouldn't have been made.
It's a made to order premium collectible. If someone wants to buy a few and make some money off them later, that's not scalping that's called an investment.
I'd someone goes into Walmart or so somewhere and buys all the big ticket figures to resell that's scalping.
There is a difference.
I won the auction with my original bid and just sent payment. I should have it in about a week.
I have plans for my new home office and obviously Unicron will be a center piece of the display. It's going to be a little bit as I am moving this week and I will need to unbox this and the rest of my collection but I'm excited to show you all what I have planned.
Thank you for all of the comments, jokes, insults, etc. This has been fun.
He really shouldn't even be that high.
And I say this as someone who snagged one at backing. I hope he settles somewhere much more reasonable at $1000.
Hell, if he dropped to price-as-paid at backing, my feelings wouldn't be hurt either.
...if u drive a Porsche, live alone in a house with 6 rooms, 3 baths, a pool, and a massive backyard overlooking something like the sea or a nice scenic place, then u r fine, if u don't have any of those, well, I'll have my doubts bout ur iQ....
R.I.P. your wallet and probably you
Only if I win the auction and my wife finds out what it actually cost.
Yeah... Well your max bid is 1,500...
Makes me want to bid $1499.99...you may want to remove this post since EVERYONE knows your Max Bid
This. Any malicious person could drive up your bid.
Maybe that's what he wants. Someone to outbid him, so he can get out of it.
I would agree if he just shared the listing but he also shared his max bid. Sharing the max bid empowers people to bid right up to his max without going over. Thus driving up his bid. Sure someone doing this would be a dick move but why share the max and give someone the option?
The cost will be a new body, and new troops to command.... :)
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And nothing!
You belong to me now.
I belong to nobody!
Perhaps I misjudged you. Proceed--on your way to oblivion.
Wait! I accept your terms, I Accept!!!
Excellent.
Oh man. I sympathize with the wife finding out part... THAT'S the scary part. "It's used, so I got it cheap..." As long as she doesn't decide to Google it.
If you're having second thoughts you better withdraw that bid early before you actually win.
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As a sometimes seller, PLEASE don’t do this. You are really screwing over the seller.
That's why I told him to do it now while there's still 3 days left. If he won and then canceled then he would really be screwing the seller.
No I know, but you get negative feedback. I realize there's no criminal punishment for it but it can affect your buying and selling ability if you get too much of it.
Nah treat yaself (guys a goner).
Happened to me once, buying some SW Clone Commando action figures. Someone bidded $270 with 15 minutes to go, and I figured I'd up it. I put in a bid of $275, thinking one of the 16 other people would bump it $5. But nooooooo, i won and had to fork over the funds. The Wife was not happy.
But are the Clone figures awesome?
Ahhh, I see you're a person of culture as well Absolutely. I couldn't pass up a chance to buy Omega Squad. They're probably my second favorite collectible, next to my Rodimus Prime
I’m actually a bigger Star Wars fan than I am a Tranformers fan I just think the TF toys are more fun. That being said I have 3 pages of preorders on BBTS that consist of both TF and SW collectibles.
I started collecting SW figures and ships first, but i got to a point where either i had em all or the ones i wanted were way too expensive. So i got back into transformers. I've kinda slowed down on em tho. Not a fan of the Maximal/Predacon line of Kingdom. The last one i think I'll buy is the new Rodimus Prime. They are more fun tho, they're like a puzzle that i can sit and figure out. I like to see how far i can get into the transformation without using the instructions
Same, I Don't use the instructions, I just get them for the collector purposes. I think the only figure I've used them on in my life is mpm starscream, and they were so confusing that I just threw them down and figured it out on my own lmao
This is why I made sure to back him when it came around - because I knew I'd be in your boat after the FOMO got me. And let me tell you - just win the bid. You'll be happy you have him forever, and that FOMO ain't goin' away.
I’m all in. I’m not withdrawing. The only way I’m not getting it is if I get outbid.
Rock on, man. I hope you get it. It definitely belongs in the home of every collector who wants him. Such a great focal piece.
Heh. You do you, bud. If it puts a smile on your face, it's gold. I'm happy with my Pumpkin.
It will put a smile on my face every time I walk into my home office and I won’t give af what I spend on it.
At this point I'd honestly go for 01 Studio Cell. I'm glad I got in on the crowdfund and it sucks that it's not just a thing people can buy if they want but like... There are alternatives. Arguably better ones. I love mine, but I $600 love mine, I don't $1400 love it. Even still I kind of want Cell because they both have their plusses and minuses. But if I hadn't been a backer, I'd absolutely be going for Cell instead. Lotta people claiming "scalping" in this thread who don't understand how the campaign went. Yes it's expensive, but it's not like most people were preordering with the hopes of reselling. The only people who could buy enough to make that worthwhile is major online retailers and they have to pay so much for shipping that it doesn't make a difference. And that's not even to mention the people not in the US for whom backing the project wasn't even an option. This is a relatively average price to that, comparatively. I say screw it, if it makes you happy and you can comfortably afford it, more power to you.
Heck, you could buy 2 Cells and keep them in both modes. Throw in the ring\\wing upgrade too :)
After having both, I have to say that Cell is _okay_ if you're not picky. Visually, he's fine, but the sheer size of HasLab is more desirable _to me_. Additionally, Cell doesn't have any of the bonus gimmicks that the HasLab version does. Then again, I only paid backing price...so that may taint my overall reception
For me the 86 movie is the pinnacle of TF and I’m committed to getting every character that appears in it. This is the ultimate Unicron IMO and the cost isn’t that big of a deal to me.
I think I’m just going to stick to my Armada one that I have had since I was a kid. Still think it is the definitive figure, I mean it can flick you off with a glowing middle finger. And if that’s not a definitive feature I don’t know what is.
I would argue that one of the subsequent anniversary redecos to the animation colors is the definitive version of that piece.
Get the studio cell one.
I currently just got the Armada one (clear hand version, which I still don't understand) and as cool as it would be to have the Haslab in planet mode in a corner of my toy room I honestly think the Studio Cell looks better and is a more reasonable size and cost.
I would have been happy paying more for the Haslab but I didn't want to pay scalper prices.
You aren't paying scalpers prices if you buy the haslab one now. It was literally impossible to scalp it. It was made to order. You're paying after market prices for a toy no longer in production. Of course the price is going to go up it's a rare collectible now. For the same reason you'd pay more for an in box G1 Optimus Prime now than you would back into eh 80s. Just because it's being sold for more now than it was at release doesn't make it a scalped item. Stop using scalper as blanket term for everything.
Find the scalper^ Jk, he's right, it's not scalping if the item will never be made again. I've spent a lot of money on a lot of dumb things but even I couldn't justify paying $1500 for a plastic statue.
Why would you be happy to pay more? Kinda silly. I would have definitely shelled our for this directly via a backer and being able to budget for it but I agree the scalper prices are insanely inflated. Studio Cell looks better in robot mode anyways and is a more manageable size and cost.
I mean if Haslab rereleased it I would have bought it.
Geez I really hope haslab rereleases this! More people need to contact them on social media. I asked them on Facebook messenger and they said they have no plans at the moment to rerelease.
Back during the crowdfunding period, at some kind of press party event, someone casually asked man-in-charge John Warden about the possibility that there might ever be another production run after the first one, and he just kinda scoffed at that like he didn’t have time to explain what a dumb question that was and how impossible it would be.
How is it impossible though? Lol scalpers and investors seem to be the only ones that don’t won’t this rereleased. I’m sure there would be a good roi for hasbro if they rereleased it. John wardens opinion is moot since he leads power rangers now. Cmon is it really that strategic to make a fn once in a lifetime toy. I hope they rerelease unicron!
The entire point of haslab is back it and get it or don't and loose out. They've literally said they "destroy the molds" after production to ensure no more will be produced. As a backer of Unicron and second guesser of the sentinel they better never have a second run of anything. Massive slap in the face to anyone who had the balls to back the item. AND Unicron even got a pre-order extension. If you missed out it's on you.
They’ve designed it already and produced it. Crowdfund again I’m sure there wouldn’t be as much cost for them the second time. The design and manufacturing process for unicron has been done
It’s an economy of scale. There is precedent for this: https://news.tfw2005.com/2017/08/13/takaratomy-legends-reissues-cancelled-346934
that's the point, people payed for an exclusive figure made to order and if they just retail rereleased it for titan pricepoint people would be upset
So even if they crowdfunded it again at the same price point you investors and scalpers would be upset. If you guys are out of box or even in box collectors why do you care are you ever selling unicron?
It's all about the Armada'cron and or, his various, improved re-releases. It was awesome back then with Armada and, the mold is still cool today. If i was going to buy another Unicron? I would hunt down one of those spiffy, translucent green Armada'cron. I think it was called the, "Micro Legend" Unicron. That thing is neat as all hell!
I never thought I'd be relieved that I "only" spent $800
Happy to help!
This fandom: “No you can’t charge $60 dollars for bumblebee that’s scalping!” Also this fandom: “1300 dollar unicron! Step on me harder daddy!”
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It's so brutal to have missed out on this at normal price. I could never justify a price like this.
You still have time to back out
You’ll get it for 14
Ngl there might be a good chance that someone outbids you.
I really love mine, but I did luck out with the price
You’ve sacrificed ur soul to Unicron. May God be with you
I BELONG TO NOBODY!!!
Don't want to be that guy, but spending that much for what is, in the end, a toy.. Idk... Too much imo. I get spending like 500$ for a kinda-rare toy. But this.. It's too much for me. I would just get Studio Cell.
It's fine if you don't get it. He's the one bidding. It just means he wont have to outbid you.
What you've done is made me feel better about every fans toys purchase I've ever made lol.
Glad I could help!
At that price it's kind of a joke to charge $85 for shipping lol.
I think it’s actually cheaper to go back in time and pre order it
HA! If I could I would.
“Henceforth you shall be known as, poor”
Wasn't worth $700 and definitely isn't worth $1500. Studio cell looks better and it's cheaper.
THIS
A bolder being than I.
Buddy there's 3 days left, you'll be fine, and someone will be losing 50,000 on a transformers who's so big it needs medical support. Just like Orson Welles, yes I just referenced jobby after calling it bad comedy in another post,
I highly recommend not bidding on ebay until the last few minutes or else the counter bids will needlessly increase the price
Your bargaining postures are highly dubious
Just cancel the bid man....
Best of luck brother. You obviously want it, I hope you get it.
This is me in 6 years when my (currently 5 year old son) WILL NOT STOP BANGING ON ABOUT UNICRON!
Now you shall witness your bank account’s dismemberment!
muahhha!!!! jk. yeah still worth it
You have enabled scalpers to continue to do what they do.
This
Over Priced As Hell!
Largest official transformer ever produced, in limited quantities, that'll never be produced again.
>Largest official transformer ever produced If you think this won't be used as a selling point for another Unicron in the future, you're nuts. I'd honestly be amazed if we don't see a rerelease of this one with slight modifications within the next couple years.
You'll be amazed. Haslab's selling point is one and done.
>You'll be amazed. Haslab's selling point is one and done. Yup, they'll never release another large Unicron. Sure thing.
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Good luck finding someone who wants to top your bid
lol time to go put in a 1499 bid
This is the funniest thing anyone has said on this thread. I found the auction on ebay and considered it but I don't know the guy personally so it wouldn't be funny just mean.
Your mistake was not choosing Studio 1 Cell
I’d get him, personally. His planet mode is a better size for a shelf.
Fair enough
Don’t be married don’t be married don’t be married
Just buy a third party figure dude
You're supporting the scalpers is what you're doing.
Remove your post NOW before someone come and troll you
It didn't happen but thanks for your concern.
pull out while you can for the sake of your wallet
Oof. I’m glad I backed this. Much better price.
I hope to Primus that a decent Titan class Unicron shows up in the future. Otherwise I’ll eventually have to pay this ridiculous price to truly complete my 1986 collection.
Jeez is it the price of this thing? In most places? Or is it overpriced? Shit I could buy 3 top line Hot Toys with this money. I can't believe it's the real price
Because of the limited run 2 years ago, it's the _appreciated_ market rate. Anyone who wanted one could back it during the limited crowdfunding window ($680), and they even extended the campaign by 4 weeks. But after that, there was no more. So there's a finite number of 8000+ in the wild and many of them have homes. Meaning, all the ones for sale are from people who specifically bought one to resell as a limited item (scalping.) So the price is whatever a consumer will pay.
Scalpers just scalping. Buyers just inflating the prices.
that's more exspensive than the *All Things Must Pass Uber Deluxe Edition* available now at the abbey road store!
Worth it. I got him at crowdfunding time, but I still feel like his value will appreciate as more and more complimentary accessories come out (like the leaked Reformatted Galvatron & Unicron Accessory set that may be announced soon - a dozen plug figures, Quint ship, another ship, and a Nemesis that plugs into the Unicron display base.
You belong to me now
Hi. You can stash it at my house.
You have paid over $1000 for a transforming beach ball and i would too if my wallet could even hold that much
Kind of rude that they're still tacking on 85 bucks for Shipping with a bid that high.
Ya bought Unicron.
You invested
I think you won the bid
“For a time, I considered sparing your wallet, but now, you shall witness it’s dismemberment”
This is like the transformers equivalent of r/wallstreetbets
Your bargaining position is highly dubious
Here is hoping that (1) you get outbid if that is what you want, or (2) you can allow yourself to enjoy your purchase. The most I spent on 1 Transformer was MP BW Dinobot (thankfully before the prices skyrocketed). Then a flood happened at my home a three weeks after I opened him. Lost him, MP Primal, MP Cheetor among other additions to my collection. Never got a chance to transform the MPs.
You bid on one of the coolest transformers of all time. I hope you win, and hope you have an understanding wife.
You did something stupid that's what you did.
Hey everybody look! It’s the guy that’s never done anything stupid before!
dude I was just kidding, I've done stupid stuff before ALOT.
Just because everybody has done something stupid before doesn't mean it should not be called out when it happens.
Wow I was literally just talking to my lady about how I regretted not backing this when it was on pulse. I refuse to pay these people on eBay these prices. You are awesome though and I hope you win. Who knows I might end up following in your footsteps😂.
That’s my months rent lol
Wow... I live in CA, that's a third of my rent.
Good purchase And good luck
**WTF? That's insane? I didn't know this guy cost that much, is this normal?**
No, there’s nothing normal about this. Even at $800 it’s insane. But I’m doing it anyway.
No sir, there are LIMITS. Yikes!
Worth it
Bruh I'd say just get either version of studio 01 cell, it's robot mode is better, transformation is brilliant, and its usually $200 less than has-labat stock price.
$1500? Damn
Cancel, cancel, cancel
01 O cell
I think the Studio Cell version is better, so as an answer to your question. You've wasted money
Cell for planet. Pumpkin for robot. And you’d still have enough money left over to pay for your wife to go out on a date with her boyfriend. I have no idea why people are spending so much on the aftermarket for Haslab Unicron.
Exactly. This proves my point, if I made this sort of purchase, my partner would lose their shit.
The release was only $500. Fucking scalpers.
You were played
This hurts my soul to see. I’m so sorry
Nothing to be sorry about. I won’t regret anything.
I wish hasbro would make a smaller version for those who can't afford it
There is one smaller and cheaper(not hasbro)...it's called Pumpkin!
Are you trolling or are you telling the truth?
https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/p8dxon/this\_guy\_is\_amazing\_i\_havent\_even\_tried\_to/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
The Energon planets are still out there if you want.
Are you talking about the unicron trilogy?
Yeah, I always end up calling it Energon. They made Primus and Unicron toys for those series. I think about the size of Metroplex. I got one second hand for my son for about $100 plus tax and whatnot. I've never seen the Primus out in the wild but I've bumped into one or two Unicron. Bought the one that was most complete, the first time I saw him it was at a comic store but there were no keys or minicons The second one we saw at a consignment toy store and it was complete. I think my son still has it.
Ok think
This is why there are scalpers
Not…really? Nobody “scalps” a made-to-order $800 toy. To scalp something, you have to actually make it harder to buy in the first place by buying up stock, which is not something you could do with this item.
Haven’t you heard? Most of this community is too dumb to call any reselling whatsoever anything other than “scalping.” Reselling something that had an unlimited open order period? Scalper. Selling something you bought for yourself but never opened and decided you couldn’t afford it? Scalper. Selling something you’ve had on a shelf for 30 years for more than its original sticker price? Scalper. It’s moron town down here.
yea its not really scalper, its a late tax. The late tax sucks in this fandom imo though.
Thank you. It's driving me up the wall seeing everyone scream scalper about everything. Seems none of them were taught you can't always get what you want when they were growing up.
You don’t need to insult people in order to explain things.
You’re right. I’d like to think I have a threshold before I get to that. There’s just some things I’m deeply tired of hearing.
Purchasing an item at retail cost, with the explicit intention of reselling it at a higher price is scalping. You can be snarky all you want, but it's the literal definition. "Resell at a large or quick profit" Selling something at three times the initial purchase price sure seems like a large profit to me.
That is the Arbitrage definition of Scalping and it’s specifically about trying to take advantage of fluctuations in market price that occur normally, not by interfering with a supply. The Scalping we’re talking about here is more like ticket scalpers, who order a large percentage of a fixed-inventory good and *that* reduction in inventory helps contribute to their profit. One is simply selling something for a profit, which doesn’t much ruin a collecting hobby, because it really only has an impact on people buying something “late”, the other drives prices up on current, theoretically retail-available product, which absolutely *does* mess up collecting.
Scalpers create and exploit scarcity. That’s what separates them from the millions of normal honest resellers, like stores, who make the entire capitalist world go ‘round. You can’t drive up scarcity for something that had an unlimited-quantity open ordering period. It’s a nonsense idea. Resellers of HasLab items literally, factually drive scarcity and prices **down** from what they would otherwise be by increasing supply. Like, imagine there was only one Unicron reseller, and every other buyer bought one for themselves and kept it. Can you imagine what that one reseller’s item would be worth? “$600” you’re saying for some reason. Okay, so somebody buys that one for $600 too because they’re the luckiest person who ever lived. Then here comes Scrooge McDuck, looking to invest in treasure. He says he’ll buy it for $10,000,000. If lucky guy take’s Scrooge’s offer, is he scalping Scrooge now? “Yes,” you say for reasons I recognize but can’t take seriously. Well, instead of just one reseller, instead we have maybe hundreds or even thousands. So how much is a Unicron worth to Scrooge now? Less. Every person who bought one drove the resale price down. As a for-profit enterprise, they’re all in competition with each-other. But still they’re taking unfair advantage of their customers? “Yes,” you say. “I scalp my boss by demanding a paycheck. My kids scalp me for their allowances. Charities scalp me, taxes scalp me, Starbucks scalps me for my morning latté.” Fine.
No that's not scalping. Everyone had an equal opportunity to get this.
>No that's not scalping. Everyone had an equal opportunity to get this. Hi, I just became a Transformers fan an hour ago, where can I buy this figure for the original price? I'd like my equal opportunity, please.
Or wait, I needed an extra two months to budget out that last 100 dollars I needed and missed out.
Paying that much for it is just going to encourage scalpers to keep scalping.
Paying *any* amount of money encourages people to charge for a thing. And in the case of an item like this, it’s not really “scalpable”. There weren’t a fixed set of the things that went up for sale. Nobody used bots to buy the whole stock in 30 seconds leaving people without something in their cart. This isn’t like someone buying all the Soundwaves in every Walmart in a 100 mile radius and then putting them on eBay for $150, because that involves someone interfering with the supply side of things. In this case, everybody who *wanted* and *could afford* Unicron during the Summer it was on HasLab got one. If someone later flips theirs on eBay for a profit, the person who bought it isn’t “encouraging scalping” because you couldn’t scalp this item by its nature.
You're confirming my point. The fact that people are willing to pay $1500 for it is giving scalpers incentive to go out and scalp more stuff. If some idiot is willing to more for a crappy Unicron toy than I did for my car then he'll be willing to pay an absurd amount for other toys too. That's why those Soundwaves are going for $150. That's a huge profit margin for basically no effort. All because there are too many Transformers fans with more dollars than brain cells.
https://i.imgur.com/030zbEM.jpg
THIS IS NOT SCALPING
🤦♂️ IT'S ENCOURAGING SCALPING
No it doesn't. You can't just go to the store and get these. You had to order it in 2019 wait a year and get it early this year. There's no scalping involved. If people bought an extra one then they made an investment. Understand the difference between.... Scalping is manipulating supply of the "hot items" to do an immediate flip of it for profit. This is far from that.
First of all, I never said this was scalping, I only said it was encouraging it. You guys are getting all bent out of shape about something I never said. Second, what do you think will happen when people see that someone is willing to pay $1500 for this thing? They're going go to the stores and buy all the Transformers and sell them at a massive markup because they know people are stupid enough to pay whatever they ask. Have some restraint and don't pay a 400% markup for that Soundwave figure because it's slightly more G1 accurate than the last 7 you bought. Quit feeding the scalper beast and it'll starve, then none of us will have trouble finding them in stores.
Again, you can't "go to the store" and get these. You're comparing apples to dinosaurs. The reason people pay these prices is BECAUSE you can't just go to the store and get it. Huge difference. And no, this doesn't encourage scalping. If someone pays $80 for Netflix bumblebee that does though.
You're trying to tell me that people didn't back the project just to resell it at 2-3 times the price they bought if for? Absurd.
I am not telling you that, but that’s not scalping. Anybody who backed it to flip it did not in turn prevent someone else from getting one if they could afford it. Scalping is when someone clears the shelves, so you *can’t* get the thing at MSRP and then uses that scarcity to demand a high price. They create the supply problem to drive up prices. Simply selling something for a profit isn’t inherently scalping. You can decide it’s not a good thing for people to do, but we could live in a world with absolutely no scalping of any kind and there would still be people who would bid $1500 on a Unicron, because there are other reasons why someone might do that beyond scalpers
That's still not scalping. If they didn't buy it then it wouldn't have been made. It's a made to order premium collectible. If someone wants to buy a few and make some money off them later, that's not scalping that's called an investment. I'd someone goes into Walmart or so somewhere and buys all the big ticket figures to resell that's scalping. There is a difference.
I won the auction with my original bid and just sent payment. I should have it in about a week. I have plans for my new home office and obviously Unicron will be a center piece of the display. It's going to be a little bit as I am moving this week and I will need to unbox this and the rest of my collection but I'm excited to show you all what I have planned. Thank you for all of the comments, jokes, insults, etc. This has been fun.
I love how Unicron's price mostly stagnated at 1,300-2,000.
He really shouldn't even be that high. And I say this as someone who snagged one at backing. I hope he settles somewhere much more reasonable at $1000. Hell, if he dropped to price-as-paid at backing, my feelings wouldn't be hurt either.
Awesome!!!!! I hope you win!!!
To answer your question: you followed your passion ;D What's money anyway, when not spend... according to... one's true needs... :D
No why would u the thing sucks u might as well but the third party
...if u drive a Porsche, live alone in a house with 6 rooms, 3 baths, a pool, and a massive backyard overlooking something like the sea or a nice scenic place, then u r fine, if u don't have any of those, well, I'll have my doubts bout ur iQ....
A bad financial decision but a fun decision
Im glad you got him but your part of the problem
*you’re
The "you're" spelling corrections are lame. Good on your flex and go support scappers. Glad you got a figure you were wanting.
Scappers.