Quitting/putting collecting on pause

RicksNerdLife said:
::looks at 190 item preorder at BBTS, AFTER dropping close to 70 other items::

*cough*
*ahem*

Ahh. Uhh.

That also doesn't include the Army of Darkness set, the Scream Greats Series 3, and 2 comic Crow figures I just pre-ordered from Trick or Treat Studios today.
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I don't know where you put it all. You've got my entire collection plus 30 figures on preorder.
 
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Thankfully, I haven't put in any new PREORDERS, but I have bought a couple things that were in stock from around the net.
 
I think the most I ever had on preorder at BBTS at one time was ~7 pages worth. The day finally came where I was trying to find something and simply couldn't, at least not in a reasonable time. I decided then that my PO's could not exceed 2 pages at any time, and if the 2 pages are full then I have to cancel something to put something new on it.

So far, so good. At least as far as BBTS and 1/12 is concerned. Like most of yall here with the "tism, I tend to get hyper-focused on things and often neglect to look at the more long-term aspects of it. I recently got hyper-focused on Hot Toys, and went on quite a big spending tear. Combining my Christmas bonus, birthday money, and some damn fine mental gymnastics, I was able to spend about 2.5 grand picking up all manner of things, from Star Wars to DC to Marvel. And it was all good until the contract was changed where I work, and as a result of tariffs and Trump's economy, this new contract cut me down to 40 hours per week, zero overtime, and I lost about $2500/month of income. Mrs Smallville works there too, so she was hit as well. That's about $5K a month between the two of us, gone. Suddenly, bills that were attained with one salary are now having to be paid with a lower salary. Tightening these belts, but...easy come, easy go, I guess. I think a good portion of these Hot Toys are going to have to go to try to keep heads above water for a bit. I haven't been around much because of all of it.

Sucks a lot, but I guess I also feel a bit fortunate that I have something worth a few dollars when I need it. But man oh man, I have to admit...dopamine from Hot Toys hits a bit different than the dopamine from 1/12. Probably because I was up to 7 pages of preorders at one point and I didn't have a square (of dopamine) to spare.

Maybe I have a spending problem.

.......nah.
 
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Nah... :)

I hate the way this hobby has turned to pre-order culture, but I play the game when the POs are at old MSRPs - like the ML Mini Comics Wave 2 or the new Deadpool wave.

The only things I try to PO are the limited run stuff - Haslabs, MTO ML, McFarlane Harley Quinn. Pre-ordering is always full price and I really hate locking in a figure at full MSRP without the chance to return/exchange. That messes with my brain, and has left me with way too many duplicates of figures I should have just *waited* on.
 
But that's the risk anymore. You *don't* preorder something that you expect to be an easy find, they end up crazy rare.

Looking at you, half of the Masterverse line.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
But that's the risk anymore. You *don't* preorder something that you expect to be an easy find, they end up crazy rare.

Looking at you, half of the Masterverse line.
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Fucking Blade, man. One of the few Masterverse figures I didn't pre-order after almost every figure I owned was available later, often at a discount. Sold out pretty much as soon as he released and I've never seen him again - except on the secondary market for double retail.
 
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