QUOTE(jing_kohkoh @ Jul 5 2014, 03:59 PM)
I mean it's bullshit because they are selling at very high prices with no license paid and low production costs, no matter how good the designs are, and in fact not all of them justify the price with the quality and design too.
not all Hastak stuffs are bad, and not all third party stuffs are good neither. Sad thing is that ppl are calculative when making decision on buying nice MP cars such as prowl, lambor, as it's exactly what you said "Leader class price for deluxe class size", but on the other hand, made PO for third party stuffs with a finger-snap.

I dun understand what is the mindset in some of these collectors nowadays.
I have third parties stuffs, but I don't blindly buy third party stuffs because it is premium. Again I have to re-iterate, if one day third party stuffs set their price lower, ppl don't buy anymore, you get what I mean.
i'm not against what you said, i was just reminding that the fact of the matter is, people are still paying because their products are undoubtedly superior (or at least, most are) and people are willing to pay right now
yes, even the quality and design may not be justified in some sense, i completely agree, but unless people stop buying 3rd party things, they'll happily just take our money and unless hastak step up their game, most of us will still happily give 3rd party companies our money
i'm not biased, i love some 3rd party stuff but some have been quite disappointing, and hastak have visibly been improving their figures (i'm pretending TF4 figures don't exist), i'm looking forward to figures like skybyte and roadbuster..
perhaps it's because 3rd parties are filling the combiner shaped holes in our hearts that hastak failed to deliver, and they're capitalizing on that.. it's only business and they'll go as high as people will still pay for em.. like when you said, when people stop buying, that'll be the day.. peace