#probably a scalper

[mouse-romance]

I was having breakfast while the primed miniatures were drying, and i've heard some wingy sounds outside...

...and i barely glimpsed a fuckin pigeon grabbing one of my Sororitas and flying away??

[luckthebard]

Absolutely buck wild to see scalpers trying to resell D20 Live tickets for more than T Swift tour prices and then turn to see ttrpg twitter celebrating it as some kind of “win” proving the industry is thriving.

[pinkprettycure]

I genuinely don't believe that this time it was just normies buying up all the switch 2 pre-orders for their kids lmao like in this economy??? In april?????

Girl. The scalpers 😭😭😭

[chieana]

the punk to capitalist pipeline is kinda insane and makes no sense to me

and yet that is what mcr (and many others who aren't famous) have done

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Dude do you know any places where people resell the plushes or the Gabriel pillow case? I'm losing my fucking mind and I feel like a crack addict about to commit murder.

I checked eBay and there wasn’t any. Apparently there was only 500 of each plush. Mr. New Blood (Dave Oshry) said they would restock the plushies eventually. Idk about the pillows tho.

[britneyshakespeare]

i love bratz as dolls but i fuckin hate mga as a brand. fuckin idiots

[moonlightsmasquerade]

EHEHEHE THE TOY EXPO WAS AWESOME It was a lot quieter/smaller than some of the ones I've been to before, but honestly that was fine and I got to take a longer look around.

And I got SOOOOO LUCKY!!!! I got Dayna Jones, Peri and Pearl Serpintine, and Jane Boolittle. Three dolls on my "must get" list!

I like Dayna Jones the most out of a lot of the G2 girlies bc her design is really cute (and her dress flips to another style). Peri and Pearl are so unique, I love the fact the doll has two heads, its so unique and they're probably my favorite (and the best imo) from the Great Scarrier Reef doll line. Jane is one I have been wanting forever since I started collecting. I'm just so happy to have found these three!

Not pictured from my haul is a Rainbow High girlie I grabbed (Gabriella Icey is her name I think) I don't normally grab a Rainbow High girl but she was cute and cheap and had no outfit and just a stand but I have a spare outfit to give her later so I can make her more unique. The second cool item I grabbed is a chair/stand for a MH doll, I think it's from a Draculaura playset but I can't pinpoint where its from. I don't have enough doll stands and its a super cute chair so it's perfect for one of my Draculauras

[nerdyflowerboy]

okay this is something really simple but i don’t like when game companies make a new IP and launch their game with a collectors edition. one that has art, cds and other merch for the game you really don’t know anything about? (could be a me thing i avoid news about new games) like longstanding IP makes sense, but brand spank’n new? idk.

[thekidsarentalright]

what do u mean people are already trying to sell the vinyl at like an 150% increase what the hell 😭

[keepingmyselfundead]

WAIT WHY IS CADY 500-600 DOLLARS SECOND HAND THE RELEASE WASNT THAT LONG AGO

[gwyns]

I feel like 2016 was the real og era of ACOTAR. I wish I had been part of the fandom at that time. I wish I’d actually joined the fandom when TOG first came out. Sigh, things seemed more positive back then.

oh it definitely was! sjm has always had a decent sized fandom but it was small enough that most things were positive, people just enjoyed these books and liked talking about and making things for them, and of course there was a lot less bullying. i am happy for sjm for her career being so lucrative but... i hate that she blew up on tiktok a few years ago

like i've been seeing lots of actors reading her books lately and it gives me the biggest ick like ok they're people too but stay away. we don't want you here lol. is it too late to gatekeep acotar and sjm? 😭

[collieii]

y'all i was not planning on buying any of the physical copies of trigun for obvious reasons but i just happened to stumble across the first one at the used bookstore today?? literally a birthday miracle

[finnickodaiir]

listen if i managed to get a ticket to see louis in nyc against all odds you will get a ticket to see taylor i’m manifesting i’m sending good energy i’m praying for you i’m asking my guardian angels you will get it

Thanks, bestie!!! I appreciate it!!

[luesmainblog]

if food insecurity doesn't indicate a bad economy to you, i question your definition of a bad economy.

“people only *think* the economy is bad because of rising grocery costs!” okay but that’s called food insecurity, and I cannot overstate how big of a deal that is. food prices are, historically speaking, the number one thing that people have rioted about.

[cloudwardhoe]

Okay the weather is super crappy so I’m not doing RSD…I do not need the pretty version of the wicked movie soundtrack I already have a copy that’s great it’s FINE I am not upset at ALL

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

and what are you going to do if you overshoot the demand (maybe limit per person too to help avoid scalping, amirite?) and there are a bunch left. are you going to add them to the site (for what price exactly? the same? lowered due to the low demand at the event? or higher do to the limited supplies? any way the resale prices are going to be insane. you're going to have to limit the amount per person lest we encounter a fad 15 year anniversary scalping incident again!) or are you going to give them away. for free, you say? hm. very interesting. it's almost like the structure of capitalism itself is inherently flawed/predatory.