How do toy websites carry a full line of toys that are older, unopened, and the manufacturer no longer sells?

March 16th, 2009 | by Michael |
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chad b asked:


How is it possible that people have a Web site that sells action figures and other toys to carry a full line of the old ones too? If the supplier (which Hasbro) stop doing so years ago, in which companies are getting the action?

ROBERT

  1. 2 Responses to “How do toy websites carry a full line of toys that are older, unopened, and the manufacturer no longer sells?”

  2. By Arbiter on Mar 17, 2009 | Reply

    It depends on the site, but many literally buy cases of a particular line of toys direct from the manufacturer. Usually these are sold off to consumers either as individual figures, a full set of a particular series, or by case. It’s interesting to note that since many collectors may be after a particular rare short-packed or chase figure, sites may force them into buying a whole set to get that one figure.

    In any case, any left over product is still there in the inventory until the company sells it off, no matter how old it is. Sometimes this is a cheaper way to find old toys than trying to track them down on eBay.

    Entertainment Earth is a site I check into from time to time.
    It’s very current, but does carry some older stock.
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  3. By Big John on Mar 21, 2009 | Reply

    Depending on what you want some websites also buy cases that are sold out from going out of business stores. They make x amount of toys and only sell so many so the rest are offloaded to like Big Lots or warehoused for a particular amount of time sometimes forgotten about. Sometimes like my uncle buys cases and cases always meaning to do something than having to sell them when he died, someone was very lucky. I know I got a few that were forgotten relics super cheap

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