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Originally Posted by Mar-l-Aoutat
Of course it makes the statue feel a little less limited, but I think it's great for all those people who missed on the original PO and want it badly.
It actually reminds me when they announced that their Artorias EX would come with not only one extra sword and the art print , but two extra swords, giving a new plus to all the people who PO the EX. It got me a little mad, since I bought the REG, thinking one extra sword wasn't worth the extra money. Two swords? Yeah, it was worth the extra quite enough.
So if they re-opened the PO after announcing that - even if it wasn't much of a big change - it would have made me really happy.
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Thanks for your reply.
I completely appreciate what you are saying about allowing other's who missed out a second chance to own this statue, especially when they have not announced the closed limit size. However, when pre-orders have been closed since 2016, what is your view regarding this? It is quite a large duration of time to have closed pre-orders then suddenly re-open them, don't you think?
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Originally Posted by Mar-l-Aoutat
Also they are not like Gaming Heads, Sideshow or Prime 1; they do not set edition sizes in advance. If they labelled it as''limited edition of 1500'', and then ''yeah, not really 1500, we re-open the PO and it's going to be 2000'' it would be wrong. But they don't do that.
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With regards to this comment, you are completely correct, they are not like this now...
This is one frustration I have with all of F4F recent statues is that they do not announce the limit quantity anymore and instead just allow pre-orders to dictate the edition size.
I have been purchasing statues from them since the beginning and all of their early statues always had closed print runs which was announced at pre-order opening, typically 2500. Larger statues were smaller prints runs. It is really disappointing to me that they have chosen to do this now (Or rather the past few years).
To put it into perspective, (before somebody bashes me about my reasons for collecting) if a statue you wanted was limited to 100pcs and priced at $1000, would that price be justified based on the limited quantities? If that same statue was $1000 but was left as an open edition or limited to a much higher quantity (ie. 10,000), what is the likelihood that you would pre-order said statue at the $1000 pricetag, or would you wait for a potential sale or price drop?
As you have said, it makes it less limited, so is it worth paying the high price for still?