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Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulation
Hello!
Out of curiosity, does AllThingsHeroscape generally scour web listings and buy up everything that gets posted anywhere? I only ask, because, from what I can tell, online market prices for Heroscape are all benchmarked by AllThingsHeroscape's prices. So, in essence, it seems that he/her essentially manipulates the entire market across the web. Just some musings, Mastodon |
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
Definitely feels that way sometimes!
I know they buying quite a few ebay listings. Not much we can do about it though. They are definitely influential on the market. |
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
Yup, definitely. They buy anything on eBay that gets <~80% of his selling prices in order to resell, singlehandedly driving up the eBay prices to very close to his, and for the past couple years the price has been steadily increasing IMHO mostly thanks to AllThingsHeroscape. I bought once from him ~3 years ago when he posted a discount code here and I really wanted something before a tournament, but never again. Personally I think everyone on this site should protest him so hopefully he has to lower his prices, but not sure that will happen.
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
I hope the rise of 3d printing helps lower the prices. I keep working on my collection with prints (I enjoy painting). I do wish my sculpts were less fragile. I print in resin and they work pretty well. I know that you can add some stuff to make them more pliable. I just wish I wouldn't drop them so much on my tile floor!!
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
I have yet to purchase from AllThingsHeroscape, because I have had a lot of person-to-person success on Facebook Market and here. I would still consider prices across the board to be, well, absurd (yet, I keep paying them XD), but this community has been much more reasonable with pricing than what I have seen on Ebay and on AllThingsHeroscape. I got into this thinking, "I will get the base set and a few units here or there and be satisfied!" Little did I know... Collecting is a sickness!!! Haha. Must have it ALL!!!
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
His big business comes from buying up large collections where he knows he can get a premium price because people are willing to cut a deal for the convenience of selling it all to one person. The going rate for a collection is usually ~60% of market value. He can then slowly resell everything through ATH for high profit margin. I bought from him once and had a bad experience. I would never buy from him again. I agree that the best thing for our community would be to boycott ATH.
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
unfortunately most often it looks like this.
But few people are ready to buy out a large collection in order to then sell it out by elements, and his mark-up is to pay for his risks not to sell everything. Although the monopoly, as for me, is always not very good. Sometimes we have problems. There are problems that can be solved with money and https://cashloansnearby.com/texas/fort-worth/ will allow you to find cash loans that are right for you Last edited by LissieS; April 30th, 2021 at 03:22 AM. |
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Re: Question About AllThingsHeroscape and Market Manipulatio
I don't think ATH has anything close to a monopoly. They just have enough (and public enough) of a rare product to heavily influence the price. Most private sales look to ATH as a benchmark ... and then put their prices much lower. Every sale has two sides to it. Sure, everyone would love to get Heroscape for cheap, but those who are willing to part with their beloved collection for a price are often only willing to do so because the price is so high right now.
But, yeah, no love lost for ATH themselves. C3G can be played with official Heroscape, but it's not recommended.
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