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Originally Posted by Cosmic_Link

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?

It's true it's weird, but I don't see this that much as a problem.

Originally Posted by Cosmic_Link

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?

I understand. That said, if the ES is based on the number of PO for the first two weeks, I can't see the statue having a price drop because a lot of people order. Because:

ES = number of people willing to PO and pay the suggested price for the first two weeks.

That means...

ES always < total number of people willing to buy the statue on the long term, 1, 2, 3 years and more after the statue is released. Which means there will always be more demand than the number of statues initially made. Even if there were initially 4000 made instead of 500.

Basically, every statue they make sells-out two weeks after the PO open. That's selling out pretty fast...

If we compare with Gaming Heads, they set the ES at say 2000 and put the statue up for PO. Then it takes YEARS to sell-out. Versus 2 weeks for F4F...

So even if the ES is bigger than you would like, it is still pretty limited, and the statue will still go up in value and be hard to get after the release, because F4F don't make more than that 2 weeks PO demand.

Also I would not be happy if they setted very small edition sizes instead of giving people 2 weeks to pre-order. Just think of the mess the Lucky cat mario statue was (ES setted at 150 I think, and then put up for PO). It makes a very small amount of people happy because they snagged the statue within minutes before it sold-out, and makes so much people mad and disapointed because they could not get it.