Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

[Dek]

Death Dealer is a murder machine.

Did you know Savage Crucible is making one? You can still get a pre-order at the Frazetta Art Museum website while supplies last. Proceeds go to help out the museum.

...Just go do it.

...You know you want to.

 

[Alt]

$40 in Tariffs!

$10 to the govt. $30 for the privilege.

That's like $90 in shipping this fucker.

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[TheGillMan]

I don't know about Elric but I wanted four but decided on two blind box komodo dragons. I couldn't put two in the cart together and got a caution from the cart of a limit of one so I had to do two separate orders and pay for shipping twice. Maybe Elric was the same, people got past the limit of one by placing multiple separate orders and paying for shipping each time.

I know I only placed one in my cart, right when it went live, and in the few short seconds it took to go to checkout, he was removed from my cart as "sold out".

Artificial scarcity is a bullshit business model, too. It's one of the reasons I quit on Mezco. It's true that I fell out of love with high-end soft goods figures when MAFEX came around, but I find Mezco so unsavory that I avoid buying from them even if they're selling something I want. Mezco has done a ton of other things to warrant that reputation (ignoring customer service requests, using exclusivity/limited releases to generate hype, charging asinine shipping fees, and screwing customers out of rewards points, among many other things), but artificial scarcity and other shitty anti-consumer practices go hand in hand.

I hope they see real backlash from this nonsense, and I hope it inspires some soul-searching. I don't think it will.

I doubt it will either, but I agree wholeheartedly that artificial scarcity is complete bullshit. I know it works on some folks, but that doesn't make it any less shitty.

The one thing I'll say against their business model beyond just that I don't like it is that it really does have the potential to put people off the product in multiple ways. And that's not great. You've got people that just don't want to deal with artificial scarcity at all, and also those that don't like to pre-order things (and the overlap of the two) that might just say 'I'm out' for this entire line rather than deal with it.

Then you have to worry about the people that miss out on an important item for their collection and decide 'fuck this entire line.' Undoubtedly, there's already at least a couple of collectors out there that don't want to buy any Moorcock figures if they can't start with Elric. Certainly, that isn't going to stop the next two figures from also selling out. But that knock on effect could prove to be a bitch.

I won't go so far as to declare I won't ever buy anything else from Harvinger/SC, but I do know that if Elric is missing from my collection I have absolutely no reason to buy any of the other Eternal Champions they might produce. If I'd been able to score the last emperor of Melnibone I'd have probably purchased all the other Moorcock characters, but since I wasn't able to I see no point with such a glaring hole in the collection.

More than anything, it just pisses me off whenever I try to purchase anything and it is removed from my cart in seconds. That is what is sticking in my craw the most about this whole debacle. When Elric originally went up for preorder I was in some pretty bad financial straits, and I didn't want to commit when I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pay for him when he was released. It wasn't too long before I realized I WOULD be able to purchase him, but by then he was sold out everywhere. This was the last chance, and I jumped on it...only for it to be snatched away in seconds. I refuse to pay double the price from freaking scalpers, so I'll have to do without. Aggravating, to say the least.

Even before trees, which are underrated murder machines. They'll get you... eventually.

Yep...just ask Sonny Bono!

 

[Poe Ghostal]

More than anything, it just pisses me off whenever I try to purchase anything and it is removed from my cart in seconds. That is what is sticking in my craw the most about this whole debacle. When Elric originally went up for preorder I was in some pretty bad financial straits, and I didn't want to commit when I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pay for him when he was released. It wasn't too long before I realized I WOULD be able to purchase him, but by then he was sold out everywhere. This was the last chance, and I jumped on it...only for it to be snatched away in seconds. I refuse to pay double the price from freaking scalpers, so I'll have to do without. Aggravating, to say the least.

I don't know how badly you want him, but for a while I was monitoring the BBTS preorder and actually got a preorder about two weeks ago - I ended up cancelling because @Reefer Shark got me on at a convention, but now I kinda wish I'd held on to it, at least for someone here on the forum...

 

[Damien]

If I'd been able to score the last emperor of Melnibone I'd have probably purchased all the other Moorcock characters, but since I wasn't able to I see no point with such a glaring hole in the collection.

Exactly my point. This is what happens. People get discouraged AND know that they won't have the collection they want to have so don't bother to continue. It's letting selling out of Aragorn in seconds and saying you won't make another one. You can certainly do it. But you're gonna struggle to sell the rest of the Fellowship.