ToyCyte sale!
We've slashed our prices for a lot of our toys to make room for more customs! Go get some amazing deals today at our store !
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Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Did you read Jeremy’s great piece “Flipping on eBay is Ruining The Scene”. Well if you didn’t go do so now. We’ve all been there. There’s something you want, desire, lust after and just plan need. Someone else has a quicker DSL connection than you, has a faster trigger finger, or just, well, remembered about the sale of that amazing extremely limited edition toy. Next thing you know it’s up on eBay for twice the price by a reseller. Yeah, these flippers are just using toys like a commodity like silver, gold or oil. Buy low and sell high.
But Huck Gee cares about his true fans and has put into effect a new sales policy banning aggressive flippers from his limited edition custom auctions! (read the full sales policy below or here) Let’s hear for the Huck Man!
NEW SALES POLICY: We realize that a lot of folks have been getting quite frustrated in their attempt to get their hands on Huck’s customs. Partly due to the artwork’s limited nature, but secondly due to too many aggressive resellers jumping into the fray. We do not have anything against other people making secondary market money off of Huck’s creations but there is a problem when aggressive resellers get between Huck and his true fans and die-hard collectors. So as of today, we are instrumenting a new sales policy: Any Ebay buyer/seller found to be aggressively reselling Huck’s limited customs will be banned from any and all future auctions.
We have been tracking some of these folks for a while now, we already know who most of them are and we will be adding them and any future resellers to the ban list as we discover them. We are aware some of these sellers are attempting to disguise their behavior by using more than one Ebay account to buy/sell, so we have been preemptively tracking all the custom ’s as we sell them. Going forward we will be banning both the buyer and the reseller of any custom we find being aggressively resold at the detriment of Huck’s die-hard fans and collectors. Also, any folks reselling customs on Ebay, and found to be hiding/covering the custom figure’s in their auction’s photos/description, will also be assumed to be an aggressive reseller and will also be banned from all future sales.
Sunny Chanel - who has written 653 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Sunny Chanel loves her toys. If she was doll, she'd want to be a Blythe. When not scouring for hot toy news, she eats, sleeps and writes in San Francisco. She also edits the magazine Punk Rock Confidential and writes about baby stuff and infant culture for Babble.com.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:15 am
good luck with that.