Comments on: Guess that Toy Store

By: Newton Gimmick

Newton Gimmick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:48:52 +0000

That’s interesting in theory, but doesn’t really jive with reality. Hasbro sells cases of Joes (as an example) at a certain price. Plenty of smaller E-tailers are able to purchase them and not charge more than say $1 than what the bigger box retailers sell them for. So there’s no reason for McFarlane to be selling them for $2-3 more. If that were truly the case, McFarlane would do better to buy from BBTS and stock his store with that. Walmart might help to set the intial price, but McFarlane isn’t paying any more or less for the price of Joes (or anything else for that matter) than Walmart does. Walmart also isn’t any cheaper than most places for most toys now anyway. When Walmart was undercutting everyone, a lot of what was in the book was true. Not really the case anymore.

By: chad

chad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:02:07 +0000

as much as i do not care for Todd himself interestng to see that for him to keep his employees with a job that he winds up having to let the competion of his stuff be sold in his store. proving anything to survive.in these times

By: CantinaDan

CantinaDan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:03:49 +0000

I hear that and I appreciate your comment. Hadn’t heard about that book but will order it. Thanks for the heads up.

By: toychango

toychango — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:58:13 +0000

In the interest of fairness; As I understand things, the reason we pay less for toys, especially at Wal-Mart, is because they sell toys at cost. This is why places like Rite-Aid may charge upwards of 20 dollars for Transformers figures and 9.99 for G.I. Joes. If you can pick it up, I recommend this great book “The Real Toy Story” to fully understand the power and influence big department stores have on the toy industry and pricing. One of the facts that stood out to me after reading this book, is that Wal-Mart makes so much money, that they could basically give the toys away and not have it affect their bottom line.

By: CantinaDan

CantinaDan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:35:29 +0000

$9.99

By: Newton Gimmick

Newton Gimmick — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:08:21 +0000

LOL so McFarlane can’t get his own stuff to sell and he fills the store full of products that would sell, but at prices that they won’t? Todd McFarlane really is a genuis.

How much were Joes, BTW?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:34:16 +0000

Man, that’s sad. On the other hand, I see they have toys I haven’t been able to find like the SW Commando Droid. When I go to the Sabres game in January, I’ll have to look through the store a lot more thoroughly than I usually do.