are pre order prices higher than after the item is released?

@@alexvn003 most figures tend to at least double in price afterwards and depending on the company as well as popularity of the figure, they may never see a re-release.Pre order prices stay the same when it's in stock but after gg.

@@alexvn003 pre-orders are lower priced, ranging from 15-20% cheaper than retail as per my experience.

@@cheeseninja7743 @MasterSentinel951 thank you! I've decided to preorder them then

question- I ordered a popup parade from amiami a few months ago, when do those usually arrive? [it was in stock]

As u should👌

@@liaavv_4959 same here dude

She's so cute! I love her nendoroid

SAME!!!

me too 😭😭

Just don’t live outside the u.s

@@holie02 hi! Thank you a lot for this comment! Can you recommend any stores that have warehouses in the EU or perhaps some EU sellers?

@@holie02 Just checked Archonia's prices, you're really just better off paying the tax yourself scales that are more expensive lol. E: if it doesn't dip above 30+% in your country.

@@holie02 I'm dumb and somehow misread your comment, cheers. Good luck with importing any future orders!

@@NeekoGood Np! haha, are dont call yourself dumb!

Yow once you started with the scale figure collecting, it's hard to turn back. Speaking from experience 😅

I got one after being very skeptical and the quality difference is unfathomable. As long as it's in your budget I definitely recommend getting a scale.

I recommend it but be careful, it's addictive not unlike gambling (or I suppose gacha is a more apt comparison for us). As a collector nothing quite gives you that childlike glee as receiving a new figure in the mail after waiting months for it to be released and finding a place where it looks nice alongside your collection. But I strongly recommend giving yourself an "allowance" each year of how much you're willing to spend and firmly sticking to not going over that amount (I don't know what your income is like so I can't say what that'd be for you but $750-1500 is probably a reasonable number for a low to middle class income). I've made the mistake in the past of not sticking to that rule and spending unreasonable amounts on figures in pursuit of that almost Christmas morning as a kid like feeling you get when one arrives. The best strategy is to check each quarter what figurines are going to go up for pre-order and plan accordingly. Know what you're going to buy long before you do, otherwise random figures will just pop up without you knowing they were coming and you'll feel the urge to spontaneously buy it because "It's my favorite character and I can go a little bit above what I'm allowing myself right?" rinse, repeat.

​@@Goldenkitten1 ouch, too real lol

@@spongeunction Too real but I imagine helpful to a newcomer. I think anyone who collects figures went through that phase of buying them like candy and then regretting it financially later on. Better to know that ahead of time and not run into that pitfall.

If only 😂

NANI!!!

real life sucks :'(

This hurt me lmao

samee

Another tip I wish I told myself when i first started pre-ordering figures.. if you have the money to pay for the preorder immediately then do it!! Don't be me and leave paying for the figures when they release too much. Especially if you have 5+ figures that are in the same month and suddenly you're $400 down because you put off budgeting.

In all my time buying figures on ebay I've only been burned once and ironically it was a seller in the US, not China like you'd expect. Considering I have quite a few figures that's a pretty good track record. Ebay gets a bad reputation in the figure community that it really doesn't deserve as long as you inspect a listing carefully for any clues it could be fake.

Yeah kinda annoying as you're going to need reconsider your budget for that month or take more money out of savings to buy all of them. Though sometimes it's a good thing as they maybe able to combine shipping and save a bit of money.

Isn't that a good thing? You save on shipping. Honestly, if you think that's a problem because you don't consider money "dedicated" to a pre-order to be money spent, what you have is a budgeting problem. That is a *really* dangerous way to live your life. And I don't just mean spending for your hobby, I mean your actual life. Of course, there would be an issue if you have an allowance/trust card that have a finite amount of money you can spend each month that doesn't roll over(I've heard of such problems, though not entirely sure how they are set up and if can be reasoned with). That.... I have no idea how you can get around. I reckon buying things instead from sites that charges you immediately could solve it but... nobody likes doing that either. Anyway, just about all of my pre-orders from last year have been delayed to this year due to covid, so this year is quite figure dense.

Only thing I dislike about Figmas is they can be finicky. Since you can't lock their joints into place as well as something like a Nendoroid it's not uncommon to fiddle with them for hours to get just the right pose and then you slightly nudge some piece with your finger and it's back to step one trying to reset that joint without messing any others up. I appreciate how poseable they are but sometimes that's a double-edged sword.

Glad you liked the tips!

Thanks for the suggestion! I actually have an upcoming order from them for something I missed the preorder for on AmiAmi 👀

Yes! Definitely a good point to bring up, I think Tokyo Otaku Mode has always been the most generous with their points system (despite changing it a while back? idk)