hugheshilton
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Just to counterpoint the discussion a little bit;
Its one thing for old and desirable plastic to be expensive and sought after by both throwers and collectors, and that really is fine by me.
However, I think a fair frustration is when people would like to buy limited releases of new discs AS THROWERS but can't do it for retail because the "collectors" (who are really just flipping discs short term for profit) buy them all out immediately. It sucks if say, you want to throw a couple McPro aviars but have no choice but to pay somebody an inflated price because they bought 20 on the last restock and out clicked you.
I think that is a fair complaint. However the frustration should be targeted at the manufactures for excessively limiting releases and creating the secondary market by not having bigger runs or restocks.
Yeah I guess that's a fair complaint as well. It's one thing when it's RDG, a 2-man shop who are depending on other companies for manufacturing and have to worry about cash flow and so forth. It's another thing when it's a big operation like Innova. I can understand it when they put out something new like the initial batches of Hannah Terns. They didn't know what the appetite for those would be so they started out with small batches. However, everybody knows they'll sell thousands of McPro Aviars, so you'd think they'd just make a few thousand to begin with... I realize that they are trying to manage their inventory and keep demand high, but sometimes I think they go overboard with those small batches. Also, they could KEEP making batches throughout the year instead of letting the market run dry for months before releasing more.