Leon 911
Super Freak
They ship from Korea, and you live in the US. Have you ever shipped a boxed 1/6 fig internationally with tracking/insurance? It ain't cheap.
Like LJ said, shipping will never make or break me for a grail
Regardless, this thread is way off course.
Sir i agree. There must be 50 pct buyer from US? Some less some more. Can it not be bulk shipped. The issue is that no one is thinking on these things. I know the reason why its not being shipped in bulk but its above me to discuss all this. All i am saying is in a business all model of working should be evaluated. A true collector am sure has brains and knows there is a shipping cost for all stuff that actually goes in the figure (before its made) already included in it? ... Or everyone leaves shipping cost / logistics aside. You can chose to ignore but that does not mean u dint spend it.
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I agree on shipping being expensive to US from Korea. But i buy so many things from ebay that gets shipped at peanuts of a cost. these usually cannot be shipped in bulk in my view may be cause of licensing, same reason why these days things are not being numbered as then things can get tracked. Just my view and i may be wrong. So in essence you and i pay full shipment charge at peak price. So to me its a cost i include in the figure cost. Basically a cost that i pay to get the figure all the way to my shelf barring insignificant costs is the total cost to me. Also, no matter what anyone says its a very high profit margin business, as no licencing cost on custom figures, which are getting more more expensive for hot toys as organisations are realising how much they can mint form us and hot toys just passes that to us. Hence by my logic customs should not be 3-4 times the rate of regular figures. Upto about 150-180 pct is good considering no economies of scale but also no multiple licence fees! , no sales overhead, not much customer support overhead, no shops, showrooms, exhibitions to participate and no Marketing spend !!! ... SGnA is usually 22-25 pct for any organisation and for cutom organisations less than 10 pct. to add to that no licence fees etc. so the cost efficiencies of 20 odd percent that hot toys achieves for mass production probably get offsetted by low or minimal SGnA and no licensing etc. 
