Own This L4D Tank Statue for an Epic Price

[Glamorgan]

Well, US $300 is a tad insane. There is no way I would pay that much.

Maybe for a DOG model...

Man, that would be cool.

 

[McLoving]

I am so angry now! I just spent my birthday money i'd have seriously brought this.

 

[PurpleSky]

Now you see, this is a cool gimmick.

Not DLC, not box sets, stuff like this is worth the money.

 

[Canadian Briton]

Hmm, will there be a super duper special edition where the tank will be on fire?

 

[imnot]

He looks like he's going to murder us.

He will in our sleep.

 

[Chewster]

The most I ever paid for any collectible was thirty bucks for a mechanical tin Bender. I don't ever intend to top that, in much the same way that I never pay more then forty dollars to go to a concert. That thing is pretty badass, but not three-hundred bucks badass.

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

While it looks awesome, $300 just doesn't cut it for me.

 

[Reaper69lol]

$324.99 is hardly worth the price

 

[Neotericity]

spitter or female boomer statue would be horrifying, all that detail ewww, gives me the willies just thinking about it

 

[Digikid]

I'm not sure I'd be willing to throw down 300 bones for something that would probably frighten off my dates when I bring them home.

But....but....but....it is an AMAZING conversational piece!!!!! IT WILL GET YOU LAID!!!!! LOL!!!!

 

[maddog015]

I'd rather spend the money on a bunch of L4D plushies.

Hey, whatever happened to the other plushies they were doing?

 

[Spygon]

The regular run of this statue will sell for $299.99, while the "exclusive" version of the figure (read: first run) will sell for $324.99 and comes with a to-scale pump action shotgun

Well $324.99 is not a bad price for a pump action shotgun so i will take a few lol

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Seriously? $300 for something that is a little over a food tall? $50 seems on the more reasonable high end of a price range...

Here, I'll explain pricing. Let's take something reasonably "Cheap" a bottle of Crown Royal. A basic glass bottle of crawn royal costs the compant a grand total of about $0.15 to make. the glass bottle is about $0.145 of that, and the liquor costs maybe half a penny. Yet the bottle of crown Royal can hit you up for $40.00 easily.

Now if they put that Bottle in a velvet bag, it costs the company maybe an extra $0.03, and yet the consumer pays more than $5.00 extra. For shits and giggles, Crown Royal can also come in a gift box. Card board. Costs the company about $0.02 or $0.03, and yet it's an additional $10.00 for us to buy it. So you know how pricing and mark ups work. See below for an evaluation of the high end model

You... must not get many high end models.

So to add into the high end model, you don't just toss plastic in a mold, spray paint it and you're done. The materials are usualy top quality, or close to them. Sometimes, there can be a metal rod in the figurine to reinforce it. The model is put together "labourously" (or just VERY slowly to make sure they get paid the most for the hour, you decide). The painting is ALL done with tiny paint brushes and high quality paints.

So if card board, a cheap velvet bag, a piece of glass, half a penny's worth of alcohol, and an assembly line cost you upwards of $60, imagine when you factor in high quality materials and hand crafted precision, becasue now you're paying for the hours gone into making the figurine as well.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Seriously? $300 for something that is a little over a food tall? $50 seems on the more reasonable high end of a price range...

Are all high end collectibles that expensive then? Why not make them less expensive, and overthrow the cheap/crappy collectibles market? Don't shoot me if I sound ridiculous, I don't know what I'm talking about.

When selling a kit like that, multiple companies take into consideration the cost of the materials, and time to paint/cast the item, plus the " Cast in high quality poly-stone, the statue is hand finished and hand painted to exacting standards" really should have tipped you off.

Here if you think that is expensive, allow me to blow your mind [http://www.gundampro.com/ms18_kampfer.php]. Yeah, that thing barely makes it over a foot tall.

 

[Kelethor]

He looks like he's going to murder us.

He will in our sleep.

There is only One solution. Never sleep again.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

... My latest computer upgrade was less than that, and I replaced all the major organs...

With 5-year-old parts?

Edit: Also,

Seriously? $300 for something that is a little over a food tall? $50 seems on the more reasonable high end of a price range...

Here, I'll explain pricing. Let's take something reasonably "Cheap" a bottle of Crown Royal. A basic glass bottle of crawn royal costs the compant a grand total of about $0.15 to make. the glass bottle is about $0.145 of that, and the liquor costs maybe half a penny. Yet the bottle of crown Royal can hit you up for $40.00 easily.

Now if they put that Bottle in a velvet bag, it costs the company maybe an extra $0.03, and yet the consumer pays more than $5.00 extra. For shits and giggles, Crown Royal can also come in a gift box. Card board. Costs the company about $0.02 or $0.03, and yet it's an additional $10.00 for us to buy it. So you know how pricing and mark ups work. See below for an evaluation of the high end model

You... must not get many high end models.

So to add into the high end model, you don't just toss plastic in a mold, spray paint it and you're done. The materials are usualy top quality, or close to them. Sometimes, there can be a metal rod in the figurine to reinforce it. The model is put together "labourously" (or just VERY slowly to make sure they get paid the most for the hour, you decide). The painting is ALL done with tiny paint brushes and high quality paints.

So if card board, a cheap velvet bag, a piece of glass, half a penny's worth of alcohol, and an assembly line cost you upwards of $60, imagine when you factor in high quality materials and hand crafted precision, becasue now you're paying for the hours gone into making the figurine as well.

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS! Seriously, some of the people in here need to hit the shops more often. I've seen stuff far less impressively crafted than this tank figurine, yet still go for well past the $500 mark. Mind you, I'm talking about stuff that serves the exact same purpose as the tank statue; to sit around and be looked at.