Amiibo were a mistake

>>376649879
I don't see the part where you sold all your shitendo consoles and games though.
Go and do it then you can come back.

>I fell for the hype

lol why? are you american?

I bought all the Fire Emblem ones. I like them and they're pretty decent little figurines even though Marth looks like he's retarded.

>>376650043
British, actually.

>>376649879
Good for you? There wasn't much hype surrounding them anywhere but America.
Hell most people just buy them as merchant for characters that rarely get anything.

>>376649879
>I made a mistake
>this is someone else's fault

A fool and his money...

>>376649879
fgt

>>376649879
there was never any hype

>>376650213
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>>376649879
>They sat there for months doing absolutely nothing

No shit, they're collectibles. Amiibo "functionality" is a meme.

What hype is there to fall for? Did you really think they were anything other then shelf decorations?

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>>376649879
>buy figures
>all they do is sit on a shelf

WOOOOOOW HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?

>Blaming other people for your own mistakes
How rational of you anon. I just don't understand how a smart man such as yourself would ever get swindled by those crooks.

>>376649879
Well you are an idiot. Just like the faggots who stockpile Funko Pops and keep them sealed thinking they are going to be worth big bucks. They'll never be worth anything. Mass produced shit.

>fall for an obvious scam only nerds who couldn't manage their money would fall for
>blame the company

They're fucking toys what did you expect.

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>>376649879
>I fell for the hype.

And you have only yourself to blame, faggot.

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>>376649879
What hype? There wasn't any Amiibo hype. Or were you talking about the scalper hype? Did you jack off to the thought of getting rich and "retiring" off plastic crap from Nintendo? They're toys for kids. They're not antique collectibles, and they're never going to be.

Seriously, what the fuck is actually wrong with scalpers/resellers?

>>376653927
>what the fuck is actually wrong with scalpers/resellers?
Are you retarded?

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>>376649879
>he took them out of the box
kek
maximum idiot

>>376654281
Are you a reseller that got "burned" by mean old Nintendo on some plastic crap you couldn't recoup your costs on?

>>376649879
Amiibos have literally no value anymore. They're shit quality even as collectables, not even buyfags want em.

Just get a pack of NFC cards for less than a buck each and spoof all the relevant ones.

Dumb niggas would have a better chance trying to get rich quick with stocks instead of buying out toys and reselling them on amazon
>wtf how was i supposed to know flipping items in real life is harder than doing so in a videogame

>>376654689
This is what always gets me. Your money would be better spent literally anywhere else. Old video games, and their related crap, are not sound investments.

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>>376649879
>They sat there for months doing absolutely nothing.

Do you know what a toy is?

>>376649879
And that's how I got all the amiibo I like for less than 1/3 of the actual price.
Thanks to all the faggots that buy those things for the full price and then sell them for 2 bucks.
Thank you to fucking gamestop too, that after having them in the shop for so fucking long started to give them all away for 1.99-3.99 and with the promotion "buy 4 pay 2".
I still laugh at all the faggots that got shilled and spent 50 or more euros for shulk while i got mine for 2 euros.

>>376654374
>he keeps them sealed because THEY ARE GOING TO BECOME VALUABLE AND I'M GOING TO BECOME RICH THANKS TO THESE

Please die in a fire.

>>376649879
>They sat there for months doing absolutely nothing

Were you expecting them to come to fucking life? They're fucking toys.

>>376654990
Just like the retrofags, they thought they were gonna get rich off kid's toys and games.

>>376655154
I keep em sealed because the boxes make it easier to hang on a wall.
Mfw I could sell some of the rare ones I got from walmart cheap for hundreds of dollars already

>>376649879
>hype
How?
Are you a 10 year old boy?

>>376655241
>Mfw I could sell some of the rare ones I got from walmart cheap for hundreds of dollars already
But you won't, because you can't

>>376655331
I won't because I don't want to. Although if I ever move to a smaller appartment there is gonna be a fire sale.

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post yfw you've never purchased any amiibos, and therefore are not contributing to the cancer killing videogames

>>376655381
>there is gonna be a fire sale
Yeah, fire sale prices are about the only way you're going to move them, "rare" or not.

>>376655205
Faggots trying to sell old games as if they are made of gold are the best.

>>376655461
I can at very minimum make back what I put in so no harm to me.

>>376650615
Fucking this. There should be a surgeon generals warning label on each box.

>>376655241
>hundreds of dollars
People really believe that someone will give them all this money for plastic toys.

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>>376649879
haha time for my beanie babies to rise in value, out of the way nintendorks

>>376655402
>says this
>yet plays touhou, literally popularizing boring bullet hell shooters which have overthrown classic good shooters like Raiden and Gradius and relying not on game play but loli lore

>>376655606
People pay what they wanna pay. If they are stupid with money then I will only take their money.

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>>376655520
>make back what I put in
But that's not why you bought them, no matter what you try to claim.

>>376655506
I'd agree with you, but I got a Silver Mario off the assembly line on eBay for $500 and flipped it for twice that amount, six months before it hit Toys-R-Us for just $13.99, so I'd be a hypocrite. All I can say is, it's OP's fault for not striking when the iron was hot.

>>376655695
Yeah. I bought them as decorations. Trinkets to put on display. I thought I already said this?

>>376655774
Nah, you bought them for the same reason the OP did. Hoping to flip them for your retirement fund.

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They're like Japanese Funko Pops, except they are a little better looking in exchange for being keys to Day 1, On-Disc DLC only available by putting a toy on your device's connection point.

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how could you possibly feel hype about a little mcdonalds toy?

how does nintendo trick people into feeling this way about these things?

>>376650174
I just got Robin. And Bowser because I also dig Bowser.

>>376655774
Which Walmart amiibos will you get hundreds of dollars for like you said earlier?

>>376651671
if fat people can do it...

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>there are people that unironically think this is a nice decoration piece

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>>376655847
Nope. I just buy a lot of plastic toys.
I have a wall of gundams I've built myself and probably 3 dozen "figmas"

>>376655959
Any walmart
Like, just go buy a toy. I don't dictate the prices. They are like 10 bucks a pop. Some of the ones I grabbed just so happen to resell for a high price for some stupid reason.

The fuck is an Amiibo?

>>376655996
Politely requesting timestamped pics.

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>>376649879
I got like 100 of these for $20 back when they used to be that cheap, now that most people know you can prices have gone up quite a bit, each one has an RFID NTAG215 chip inside so you can write an amiibo to it with a phone.

I've got a clone of just about every Amiibo and even I feel like it wasn't totally worth what I paid for it. I'm now thinking it would have been better if I just used a save editor or something. I can't imagine how people who actually bought amiibo feel.

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>>376655849

>toy

Most people who buy Amiibo would have a 9-year-old level fit that someone was playing with their precious statues, and they don't even move their joints. They're little more than statues.

>>376655996
Nobody with an actual love for figurines would think to buy something of as low quality as amiibos.

>>376656080
No I mean I'm curious to know which amiibos you have that are worth that much. Like, what character(s)?

>>376655638
At least beanie babies are half-decent children's toys, amiibo are literally useless

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>>376656082
Here is what I'm currently working on.

Also fuck filesize restraints

>>376656191
totally bro

>>376656472
Are those kits prepainted or do you have to do that yourself?

>>376655729
You are part of the problem but like >>376655673
says, the real idiot is the one who buys them at those prices.

>>376656191
>>376656196
Apparently Little Mac goes for a lot, which is actually the only one I really wanted because there just isn't enough Punch Out!! merch.
I got those rare Fire Emblem ones that people keep losing their shit over too. I have no idea why

>>376649879

I bought Ness because I'm a huge EB fan.

It's nice to have, but I literally own no other collectibles.

>>376656564
Have to do it yourself, and I don't have an air compressor at the moment so most of mine just get some panel lining and some metallic details pained on with paint pens.

>>376654281

>Nintendo can't produce enough product to meet demand.
>Scalpers get product into hands of people most willing to pay for it instead of whichever random chucklefuck happens to get lucky.
>Anons who wouldn't be able to purchase the product without the scalper's aid (unless they were said chucklefuck) bitch about it.

>toys don't do much beyond sitting around and collecting dust
What the fuck did you expect them to do? Get up and give you a handjob at night?

>>376649879
>clearly compulsive habits
>fuk u nintento
ok

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>>376656564
Obviously you paint them yourself, that's half the fun right there.

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>>376656761
>the scalper makes more units available by scalping

>>376656831
Well that's something Nintendo might want to work on

>>376656831
That would be pretty cool though

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>>376656954
It used to be half the fun. I'm 39, and have fairly bad arthritis these days. Pretty much all my gaming is done on a Hori stick, and something like painting minis/figures is pretty much out of the question.

>>376653927
>There wasn't any Amiibo hype

There was hype for days. /v/ even had an amiibo thread up 24/7.

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>Amiibos are high quality

>>376657146
Who are you quoting?

>>376657098
>no blue sky in the background

>>376656967

>I cannot read, but I will respond anyway.

50 amiibos? holy shit. You either have no taste or you just always do what you think is popular

>>376656761

10/10 bait, time to tell you why this logic is retarded.

Incorrect. Scalpers just bottleneck supply. Online ordering, shipping, preordering, or literally any press about the product at all makes it easier for consumers to get what they want without involving a secondary market like scalping. Further, scalpers tend to buy in bulk and horde products so they have supply to upsell, contributing to any shortage of supply that the primary market may suffer.

Tl;dr: You're just acting like a twat for some extra bucks.

>>376656472
what kit is that?
looks cool

>>376657717
>Scalpers just bottleneck supply.

Yes, that's literally what I said is a good thing. Instead of 1000 amiibos selling to 1000 random people and then never being available again, 1000 amiibos get put into the hands of people actually willing to pay market price.

>Online ordering, shipping, preordering, or literally any press about the product at all makes it easier for consumers to get what they want without involving a secondary market like scalping.

This has nothing to do with anything I said.

>Further, scalpers tend to buy in bulk and horde products so they have supply to upsell, contributing to any shortage of supply that the primary market may suffer.

Buying in bulk doesn't make the product disappear, anon, the supply remains unchanged.

>>376657269
>those units wouldnt of been available for purchase if a scalper hadnt scalped it
>nintendo would of just not sold them

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>>376657108
60 year old Japanese men manage to do it alright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUFQok64IQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcygYBezTQ

>>376658320

How you managed to change "scalpers resell product to people most willing to pay for them" into "Nintendo wouldn't sell product if scalpers didn't exist" is beyond me. Who are you quoting?

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>I intentionally bought 50 amiibos fully knowing that they have almost no purpose other than sitting there and then got mad that they were just sitting there.

>>376658320
>those units wouldnt of been available for purchase if a scalper hadnt scalped it
>wouldn't of
>I can't read, write, or spell, but let me keep replying

>>376658371
Well of course he can he's the fucking MEIJIN.

>>376658150
>Buying in bulk doesn't make the product disappear, anon, the supply remains unchanged.
I bet you think the diamond industry is perfect as well.

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>>376657761
MG tallgeese

>>376656291
>amiibo are literally useless
They unlock things in video games. That is a use. This is fact.

>>376650369
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47ow4_Cmk0

>>376650213
There is literally zero hype for amiibo in the U.K...

>>376658730

It astonishes me that you can compare the actions of many individual scalpers, all of whom are competing with each other and with Nintendo who could ramp up production at any time, to the De Beers monopoly. What were you thinking?

>>376658730
Funny you should mention that, the diamond industry is going to completely meltdown since there have been a number of techniques found that can synthesize flawless diamonds with minimal energy requirements in the past 5 years or so.

>>376656761
>the people willing to pay the highest price are the true fans of amiibos
>the people actually waiting in lines and otherwise trying to get to the supply as fast as possible are "random chucklefucks"

What's most baffling to me about the whole amiibo fiasco is how long it took Nintendo to ship out more of the damn things, and still do. At least change the ratio of what's selling out.
>The amiibo are flying off the shelves? Give them more Marios.

>>376659194

>the people willing to pay the highest price are the true fans of amiibos

Who are you quoting?

But what you are arguing is that goods should not be sold to people who contribute but rather people who "work hard" by standing in line or getting lucky. If you want to argue against the entirety of capitalism then we'd be here all night.

>>376649879
I have a couple princesses and the splatoon girls. I bought them knowing they were pointless and now they sit on shelf because they are display items and I knew that when I got them. You retarded people who bought every one in a sperging spree should just kys if you thought they would be more then that.

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When are people going to lose interest in these ugly pieces of shit?

>>376659589
funko? Probably never. They're cheap as fuck to buy and seeing price tags on actual quality Jap figures scares them. Rationalizing spending 12 bucks for a shitty plastic figures is easier for most than buying a 70 dollar statue.

>>376649879
>yet another idiot is parted with their money
Yeah, no shit. It's little wonder you are poor. You'll gobble down whatever a marketer and whatever the hype tells you to. Maybe after pre-ordering enough No Man Sky's you'll get your head on straight, but expect to be eating ramen until that happens.

>>376649879
Welcome to collecting

>>376659589
When is the Nendoroid meme going to die?

I really don't understand what people see in anything Funko puts out but I think the Nendoroids are nearly just as bad.

>>376659530
You obviously?
Sure you didn't say true fans but you very clearly said that the ones willing to pay the biggest bucks getting hold of amiibos was a good thing. That was your entire argument for why you said scalpers were good.

Also we're talking about anons here. I have no interest of discussing the entirety of capitalism with you. You were talking about anons hating on scalpers, and if you think anons would rather pay a lot more money than needed rather than to sit and refresh a page for hours just to be the first to the mill you're quite wrong.

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>>376649879
>I bought a bunch of these little figurines because other people thought they were cool but then nothing happened, wtf Nintendo.

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>>376649879
>scalpers are Nintendo's target audience

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I also fell for it.

Willing to sell my Amiibos for cheap.
Is $0 okay?

>>376654385
no, he waited too long
the time to sell was as SOON as they hit and figure out all the rare ones too

>buying all of the amiibo's
>not the ones you wanted

lel dumbass

>>376661960
more like scalpers make USE of nintendos audience

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>>376649879
>hype

>>376658841
>internet hype is divided by country
??

> still no dnd styled game for amiibos made by level 5
Get it together Nintendo holy shit I want to run my four man Kirby squad taking down wireframes and generic RPG enemies

>>376649879
>Not a toy collector
>collect a bunch of toys
>dont want
>D-Dammit Nintendo!!!!!

Okay.

>>376649879
It would be wonderful if you took responsibility for you own choices.

>>376649879

I'm excited to finally get Bayo merch that isn't that $300 figure.

>>376649879
>fall for the hype
>can't fucking buy the ones I want for normal prices anywhere
>never get a single one, not even the more plentiful ones like plain Pikachu

Saved by Nintendos own piss poor judgement. Phew. Thank fuck they're not interested in selling products to people that want them lol.

I have a bunch of the Animal Crossing ones. Waited until they were down to like 5 dollarydoos a piece, picked them up for New Leaf and have been keeping them on my shelf. They look nice, they serve a very minor purpose, and I feel like they were a good purchase overall.

The only Amiibo I have that I didn't buy for super cheap was a SquidKid I got way back and was gonna flip when the price went up. It went from around 12 to 25 bucks pretty early on, but Nintendo wouldn't stop making them, so the price nose dived pretty hard. She's still in plastic, so I can't use her in anything, but when Splatoon 2 comes out, I might just break her in, I guess.

>these look kinda shitty, they're just overpriced flimsy plastic figures with a $1 chip
>they're selling out everywhere!
>HOLY SHIT I'LL BUY 10

>Bought Shiek and Toon Link amiibos back when they were common
>Put them in the closet
>BoTW comes out
>Price skyrockets.
>Put them on ebay
>Get $260+ bucks from a auction for them when they were at the height of their price.

Did pretty good on that.

>>376649879
>fell for marketing
>blames other people

you deserve to suffer

caveat emptor, motherfucker

>>376659025
Diamond industry is bullshit to begin with. When it comes to artificial scarcity, they're basically the ones who wrote the book since there's a monopoly on diamond mining and they just limit the supply of them to build up demand on a fairly common gemstone.

>>376658841
This, Muslims don't like Nintendo

Why do I own Amiibo? I even preordered the ones for Fire Emblem Echoes.

>>376649879
>opened them
There was your mistake

These things were like beanie babies, they have no actual worth if you modify the packaging or the tags that come with them.

>>376656191
Says (You)

>>376654990
Buy 4 pay 2? Wtf is that.

>>376656761
>Nintendo can't produce enough product to meet demand.
Yes they can. Nintendo has a long fucking history of offering a low supply to create a sense of scarcity that makes their products look more attractive ("everyone's buying them, it must be really good", "shit, I might miss out on the opportunity if I don't buy now"). Scalpers just play into this by making stores sell out faster, and by making the products seem really valuable when they mark them up on ebay.

>>376658841
Nintendo is haram

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>>376656831
>What the fuck did you expect them to do?

Compare gunpla to amiibos. Even the dirt cheap ones are amazing.

https://youtu.be/CQfZ6JMWvNY

Vid related is cheaper than some of those shitty amiibos are going for right now. That and unlike those solid nintendo hunks of plastic, these are truly a joy to create yourself.

>>376657108
>something like painting minis/figures is pretty much out of the question

Most kits these days look pretty great out of the box. It'll look BETTER if you detail and you'll get more entertainment out of each build, but it's not neccessary.