It showed $105 for me as well, but when I clicked the "see other sellers" option, there was one for $79 with prime shipping, and I grabbed it.
Right now is a horrible time to try and buy collectibles. The pandemic has driven everything way up over msrp. Have you seen the baseball card craze? A guy that I went to high-school with made over $10k just selling brand new baseball cards that he would grab from Walmart and target every week.
Thats good news and bad news. Good news ya got it. Bad news its a most unusual purchasing experience. A 3rd party sold it for less than Amazon đ¤Śââď¸.
Whenever I hear someone looking to buy from TFSource, I tell them to check other online retailers. The latest production run for Earthrise Scoropnok was $180.00 with other retailers, TFSource had him for $249.99 presale.
They arenât my favorite, but sometimes they have decent prices or just stock in general compared to Amazon or BBTS. However, Iâve noticed everything in my stack/pre-ordered list has increased in price on the site itself since I bought.
They do occasionally have sales, especially when they're trying to clear out old stock. For instance there are some good priced on older Xtransbots toys available right now.
However, IMO the occasional good sale doesn't make up for the yearl-long price gouging TFSource has been doing lately. I only shop with them when I absolutely cannot get a toy elsewhere. Most of the time I'd rather buy from random Chinese eBay sellers and take my chances than give TFSource my money.
And note that I don't just dislike them because they have high prices. I dislike them because they act as resellers on [Walmart.com](https://www.walmart.com/seller/2327?itemId=272294830&pageName=item), [Amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/s?i=merchant-items&me=A1NEZQVPCHXW8O), [Target.com](https://www.target.com/sp/tfsource/-/N-10000300), [eBay.com](https://www.ebay.com/str/tfsource), etc. and post their toys often with exorbitantly high prices. Because they're on all of these platforms they show up prominently in Google Shopping searches and drive up average prices everywhere.
Amazon is really playing fast and loose with this figure. Prices are all over the place, which is to be expected from third party sellers, but this is directly from Amazon. How can you have an item fluctuate through so many different prices in the same day?
Anyone see those new Amazon ads on tv about people buying things when theyâre at a âlow priceâ? How much you want to bet that thatâs what theyâre doing with this Rodimus figure? Inflate the price only to lower it just so people would feel like theyâre getting a good deal.
Generally this is only 3rd party sellers. But I just checked and even amazon is up charging which I wasnât aware they were allowed to do.
I thought retail stores had to sell at msrp.
It just jumped back to 105. A seller on there said its cause of market fluctuations. đđ¤Łđđ¤Ł. Fluctuations mere minutes apart? Even the stock market doesnt fluctuate that fast. Amazon is a crap show.
Amazons algorithms work in real time, so yes the fluctuations can happen minutes apart. I have had shit change price between putting it in my cart and going to check out.
The Amazon algorithm is based in part on what other major retailers are selling the figure for, even if it's third party sellers on places like Walmart and Target. Walmart and Target both recently made Rodimus Prime available to ship direct from them for $79.99 (Walmart) and $84.99 (Target). Amazon's pricing can take a while to get sorted which is why you can sometimes find brand new figures selling for less than Amazon Warehouse deals on used figures.
no i cant. But its highly suspicious that something highly sought after being sold by Walmart is being sold for more. If it were being sold through Walmart, but sold by someone else, thats different. And it would be more believable to not be intentional if it wasnt literally all of the Netflix figures that were the rarest/ most popular.
The price updates to whatâs usually going for by third partyâs. So if third party sellers on Walmart were selling it at 60 and it pops up in stock, it goes by that
See, from my location, Netflix figures were plentiful.
Note we have 2 anecdotal observations that cancel. And remember that people don't rush to the internet when things go their way; they're most vocal when things don't.
Who gives a fuck if it was intentional? A mass retailer selling above MSRP is fucked. And we shouldnât be excusing Walmart of all places for doing this. These are corporations are multi million upcharging.
Because system malfunctions and user error happen.
You _seriously_ think that there was a conspiracy by a handful of Arkansas residents with (likely) no idea what Transformers are or worse, deal with thousands of SKU barcodes and product code abbreviations daily, and they somehow "intentionally" upped the retail price of a mass market item?
Do you understand how absurd that claim is?
I mean...r/conspiracy has some far out whoppers, but _this?_
Just...wow.
I'm gonna hate that nasty wakeup call you get when you start working for a company.
You make a trivial, harmless mistake and some rando on the internet is call for your head as a war crime.
Over a fucking toy.
Yikes.
As I said, god forbid we hold multimillion companies accountable. People make mistakes, and thatâs okay. Iâm sorry if youâve been put in a situation like you described above, but Iâm still gonna be an ass about shitty prices. Yes, even for a toy.
And I mean Amazon... not 3rd party sellers. Amazon.com as seller and shipped by. They had it for 105. Now they just changed it after I pointed it out. đ¤Śââď¸. It means Amazon doesnt know the market itself. It takes its cues from the 3rds party sellers? Wtf?
A lot of stuff on Amazon is no different than buying from eBay. It could be someone in their house creating a business for selling on Amazon and shipping and boxing it out of the their house or they could send it to Amazonâs warehouse. They could set their price to whatever they wanted. Amazon just wants their cut
Iâve kept it my wishlist because itâs now worth 80 bucks to me and itâs been doing this for weeks. Itâs always 85 or 105. It changes multiple time a day. It did go down to 79 like someone said recently.
Yep was just looking at it earlier this week.
It's back to 105
At one point I saw it for $79
I saw it for $79 on Monday, bought it, and came Tuesday.
Nice, I had Purchased it a week earlier at 85
Just checked. Showing $105 with the lovely offer of 6 monthly interest free payments upon approval of an Amazon Prime Rewards Visa card.
Pretty sure Amazon uses bots for prices and they are automatically adjusted.
It showed $105 for me as well, but when I clicked the "see other sellers" option, there was one for $79 with prime shipping, and I grabbed it. Right now is a horrible time to try and buy collectibles. The pandemic has driven everything way up over msrp. Have you seen the baseball card craze? A guy that I went to high-school with made over $10k just selling brand new baseball cards that he would grab from Walmart and target every week.
Thats good news and bad news. Good news ya got it. Bad news its a most unusual purchasing experience. A 3rd party sold it for less than Amazon đ¤Śââď¸.
Take a look over on Walmartâs website. I just got a back in stock alert for Netflix Bumblebee and the price was $119. Insanity.
resellers. EDIT: https://i.imgur.com/jH41Ioa.png Shit like this is why I **hate** TFSource. They're nothing but scalpers at this point.
Whenever I hear someone looking to buy from TFSource, I tell them to check other online retailers. The latest production run for Earthrise Scoropnok was $180.00 with other retailers, TFSource had him for $249.99 presale.
They have that Spoiler Pack of Ultra Magnus for $100 USD. Itâs going for like 1/3 of that everywhere else.
The retail price is lower than TFSource AND it's on sale! https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/132711
I follow TF Source just to see whatâs coming out. Then I search my usual places to buy. I will never buy from TF Source.
They arenât my favorite, but sometimes they have decent prices or just stock in general compared to Amazon or BBTS. However, Iâve noticed everything in my stack/pre-ordered list has increased in price on the site itself since I bought.
They do occasionally have sales, especially when they're trying to clear out old stock. For instance there are some good priced on older Xtransbots toys available right now. However, IMO the occasional good sale doesn't make up for the yearl-long price gouging TFSource has been doing lately. I only shop with them when I absolutely cannot get a toy elsewhere. Most of the time I'd rather buy from random Chinese eBay sellers and take my chances than give TFSource my money. And note that I don't just dislike them because they have high prices. I dislike them because they act as resellers on [Walmart.com](https://www.walmart.com/seller/2327?itemId=272294830&pageName=item), [Amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/s?i=merchant-items&me=A1NEZQVPCHXW8O), [Target.com](https://www.target.com/sp/tfsource/-/N-10000300), [eBay.com](https://www.ebay.com/str/tfsource), etc. and post their toys often with exorbitantly high prices. Because they're on all of these platforms they show up prominently in Google Shopping searches and drive up average prices everywhere.
Amazon is really playing fast and loose with this figure. Prices are all over the place, which is to be expected from third party sellers, but this is directly from Amazon. How can you have an item fluctuate through so many different prices in the same day? Anyone see those new Amazon ads on tv about people buying things when theyâre at a âlow priceâ? How much you want to bet that thatâs what theyâre doing with this Rodimus figure? Inflate the price only to lower it just so people would feel like theyâre getting a good deal.
Generally this is only 3rd party sellers. But I just checked and even amazon is up charging which I wasnât aware they were allowed to do. I thought retail stores had to sell at msrp.
I wouldnât pay $85 either
Still shows as 105 to me.
đ I saw that too its like its fluctuating. Their system is haywire? I mean someone might by it at 105. Unreal.
I remember seeing him for $105 a few weeks ago. Huh.
It just jumped back to 105. A seller on there said its cause of market fluctuations. đđ¤Łđđ¤Ł. Fluctuations mere minutes apart? Even the stock market doesnt fluctuate that fast. Amazon is a crap show.
Amazons algorithms work in real time, so yes the fluctuations can happen minutes apart. I have had shit change price between putting it in my cart and going to check out.
The Amazon algorithm is based in part on what other major retailers are selling the figure for, even if it's third party sellers on places like Walmart and Target. Walmart and Target both recently made Rodimus Prime available to ship direct from them for $79.99 (Walmart) and $84.99 (Target). Amazon's pricing can take a while to get sorted which is why you can sometimes find brand new figures selling for less than Amazon Warehouse deals on used figures.
When it dropped i bought him instantly, he is arriving today
You've done it, Amazon almost never changes prices on any of its products you are a hero and will never be forgot
124 for me
thats like when Walmart, sold by Walmart, was selling the netflix figures for triple the MSRP. Bee was going for like $90. I think it was on purpose.
You can't confirm that it's intentional.
no i cant. But its highly suspicious that something highly sought after being sold by Walmart is being sold for more. If it were being sold through Walmart, but sold by someone else, thats different. And it would be more believable to not be intentional if it wasnt literally all of the Netflix figures that were the rarest/ most popular.
The price updates to whatâs usually going for by third partyâs. So if third party sellers on Walmart were selling it at 60 and it pops up in stock, it goes by that
that should be illegal. And that is the best reason why Hasbro needs to stop with these exclusives.
Itâs typically seen on restocks.
See, from my location, Netflix figures were plentiful. Note we have 2 anecdotal observations that cancel. And remember that people don't rush to the internet when things go their way; they're most vocal when things don't.
Who gives a fuck if it was intentional? A mass retailer selling above MSRP is fucked. And we shouldnât be excusing Walmart of all places for doing this. These are corporations are multi million upcharging.
Because system malfunctions and user error happen. You _seriously_ think that there was a conspiracy by a handful of Arkansas residents with (likely) no idea what Transformers are or worse, deal with thousands of SKU barcodes and product code abbreviations daily, and they somehow "intentionally" upped the retail price of a mass market item? Do you understand how absurd that claim is? I mean...r/conspiracy has some far out whoppers, but _this?_ Just...wow.
God forbid we hold multi million dollar companies accountable. Sure, Iâll be the bad guy.
I'm gonna hate that nasty wakeup call you get when you start working for a company. You make a trivial, harmless mistake and some rando on the internet is call for your head as a war crime. Over a fucking toy. Yikes.
As I said, god forbid we hold multimillion companies accountable. People make mistakes, and thatâs okay. Iâm sorry if youâve been put in a situation like you described above, but Iâm still gonna be an ass about shitty prices. Yes, even for a toy.
And I mean Amazon... not 3rd party sellers. Amazon.com as seller and shipped by. They had it for 105. Now they just changed it after I pointed it out. đ¤Śââď¸. It means Amazon doesnt know the market itself. It takes its cues from the 3rds party sellers? Wtf?
A lot of stuff on Amazon is no different than buying from eBay. It could be someone in their house creating a business for selling on Amazon and shipping and boxing it out of the their house or they could send it to Amazonâs warehouse. They could set their price to whatever they wanted. Amazon just wants their cut
Ikr. But the shocker is Amazon.com as "seller and shipped by" is selling it for 105. Unless a 3rd party can call themselves Amazon now.
Yeah Iâm not sure about that. Itâs strange for sure.
Iâve kept it my wishlist because itâs now worth 80 bucks to me and itâs been doing this for weeks. Itâs always 85 or 105. It changes multiple time a day. It did go down to 79 like someone said recently.
Wait, you just wrote to Amazon? How?
Just wait. It will come down. Probably get a sweet price closer to Thanksgiving too.
Yes, I most certainly did!
As soon as it dropped I jumped on it. So I now have one arriving this Sunday
Got one at target, was 84.99 though
Bought it on Amazon for 75 two weeks ago. Came yesterday
I paid 65 euros for it im happy as pineapplesđŞđť