Basketball Jones wrote:I'd consider it for $50, but $150 is laughable.
It's not worth that much money. There's an acceptable margin of profit a vendor can make with a product, and it begins to grow increasingly amoral when the margins spiral to these heights.
Isn't it amoral to steal something from someone else and sell it as yours to begin with?
I hear you on the greediness of these companies charging near G1 prices for there KO's. I think it is completely wrong because I would guess that these KO's are probably pretty cheap to make once the mold has been created.
It really bothers me that neither Hasbro or Takara are trying to pursue these people that are basically stealing their properties. Then again, it isn't like they are taking money away from Hasbro or Takara as neither company will likely try and remake these figures anyways, which brings me to my other complaint.
We've been told by these companies that the molds are lost, damaged, or whatever and they can't make them anymore. Everyone has suggested reverse engineering, cast a mold from an existing figure, digitally scan and remake an accurate mold using computers, etc. and it seems every appologist has come up with it is too expensive and there is not enough interest to make money off of this. Then we see these KO companies do just that and clean up. You know they didn't spend a lot of money to get this stuff made because in the KO market, if the cost was too great they wouldn't make it to begin with if they knew they wouldn't make make a decent profit from it. If only Hasbro and Takara could do it right, they could make it out of much better materials and at a better quality.
