{"id":13310,"date":"2013-08-30T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=13310"},"modified":"2013-08-30T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T21:29:26","slug":"biggs-x-wing-pricing-flies-in-the-face-of-canadian-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/08\/30\/biggs-x-wing-pricing-flies-in-the-face-of-canadian-collectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggs X-Wing Pricing Flies in the Face of Canadian Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/08\/30\/biggs-x-wing-pricing-flies-in-the-face-of-canadian-collectors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13136\" alt=\"biggs_xwingBIG\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/biggs_xwingBIG-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/biggs_xwingBIG-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/biggs_xwingBIG.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Collector Bruno B. writes in with an observation, and a plea, regarding the pricing of the\u00a0Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us Exclusive Biggs Darklighter X-Wing Fighter in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago i had seen a price tag for the vintage x-wing on the Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us Canadian website. It was 74.99$ and i thought it was a mistake. There was no way that this can be 59.99$ US and that price in Canada. I went to the store today and lo and behold i find the x-wing and the very extremely disgusting price gauging price tag. I took photos to show you. \u00a0I am appalled by this. Our money is almost at par with the US dollar so there is no way that there can be a 15$ difference with the US price not even factoring all other costs. I understand that there can be some extra money tacked on sometimes but to go that far is just plain robbery.<\/p>\n<p>I would have accepted a price tag of 65$ but what completely ruins it for us is the fact that most provinces have a high tax rate and that would mean that this little thing would cost upwards close to a 100$ when all said and done. I can get a vintage x-wing on ebay for that price in a beat up box for crying out loud and i did. I am urging you to place this one front page of your site so that you can show the star wars collecting community how much we are getting \u00a0 \u00a0&#8212;&#8211; over for lack of better word when Hasbro does store exclusives. I for one will try to find a way to complain directly to Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us\u00a0and demand an explanation for this. I was planning on buying at least 2 of these but now i ll have to wait for a sale on this&#8230;It is because of sites like yours that we can and have enacted changes when companies have tried to abuse the collecting community.<\/p>\n<p>The more we communicate the better we can protect ourselves from these underhanded business practices that ruins it for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the email Bruno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Collector Bruno B. writes in with an observation, and a plea, regarding the pricing of the\u00a0Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us Exclusive Biggs Darklighter X-Wing Fighter in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76,39,86,41,160,16],"class_list":["post-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-exclusives","tag-hasbro-2","tag-kenner","tag-toysrus","tag-tvc","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13312,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions\/13312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}