Hoo boy, here we go again with the twisting my words for no reason:
Once again, you take this to personal judgments. (And ironically, obsess over calling Americans obsessive).
It's not a personal judgement. Me saying a lot of US collectors are obsessive isn't a judgement, it's an obvious fact. I never said anything about my opinion on those kinds of people. I merely said it's one of the largest causes of stock shortages in the US. That's just common sense, if people are buying dupes of a figure en masse, stock dries up faster.
You deny facts that are presented to you.
You've only replied to me with anecdotes, assumptions, and approximations. Not facts. Meanwhile, much of what I referenced is fact - Nintendo have put out official numbers that show the US gets the most stock (around 2 thirds of the global stock), Amiibos are sold for a higher MSRP in Europe (and you should know this since you said you've imported), two Amiibos outright have no official release confirmation yet while they've been out for a while in the US, and many Amiibos mysteriously don't get sold AT ALL on release date in European countries (your example of a single TRU not getting Marth, Villager, and WFT is not comparable as it's not multiple entire countries not getting them) and only randomly come out a few months later (often in small quantities), Europe has more rares - I've listed most of these points already and I can list more. You're the only one denying facts here.
"Dupes," the offensive term you call those who collect doubles
...How far into the depths of the cosmos did you have to reach to come to the conclusion that I'm using "dupes" as an offensive term for people who have duplicate Amiibos?
"Dupes" is a common, short hand, colloquial term for "duplicate". Even if you didn't know that, basic reading comprehension while reading my posts should have made it obvious. To quote myself, for example, I said earlier that "I have a few dupes myself"....did you seriously interpret that to mean I have a few duplicate Amiibo collectors locked up in my room, like I'm some sort of psychopath who hunts down people who collect duplicates of Amiibos? Because I was obviously referring to the Amiibos themselves, especially since I linked to
this photo of my 3 Rosalina Amiibos when I said it.
Give me another "BLUH BLUH YOU ARE ARROGANT AND OFFENSIVE" if you want but you deserved to be called out on that one.
Now that we have that English lesson out of the way...
You claim many stores 'never got stock of items there,' but ya know, that happened here too.
Once again, I'm not talking stores, I'm talking whole countries.
I guess the bottom line is that, if you dont deal with exclusives, you have no idea how they actually work. On the other hand, there are stores here who, conversely, have just never gotten figures as well. Your attitude comes off as arrogant because you have no idea of what you talk about, and use belittling language toward the actual effort many people have had to make.
-I have dealt with exclusives. It wasn't easy getting my hands on Gold Mario when he
literally isn't officially released outside of the US (at the time when I got him - I'm aware Australia and Japan got him now) when I live in Ireland. Also I have dealt with other exclusive products besides Amiibo in my country before. And while no Amiibo has been officially exclusive to a particular store in Ireland, there have been many occasions where an Amiibo only showed up in one store despite all of them listing them.
-Talk about me being belittling and arrogant all you like, but I've already proven how you are the one who has no idea what he's talking about, right down to your understanding of a basic colloquialism.
-As far as I know, the US has never had a case where literally all pre-orders in the nation are cancelled. This has happened more than once in Europe. For example, GameStop UK and GameStop Ireland cancelled all Rosalina Amiibo pre-orders just before she was supposed to release, and then she couldn't be found in any other stores in those countries.
So the cancellations in the US actually aren't comparable - this isn't arrogance, the scale is simply completely different.
I'm not sure how many times you have camped outside of a store for a release- and am curious to ask if you have. That doesnt seem to be in the media in other regions, but is nearly a guaranteed necessity in some areas in the USA.
I don't camp outside of stores for Amiibo releases because:
-I'm pretty sure it's illegal where I live unless there is an official event (such as that one PS4 midnight launch event I went to at my local GameStop).
-Related to the last point, a lot of big shops in my town have these extremely high frequency noise generators to drive young people away from hanging around the stores. Most adults cannot hear these, but my ears still can, and it is INCREDIBLY irritating to listen to. I would not get a wink of sleep camping outside these stores.
-I live close enough to all of my local stores so I shouldn't need to.
-Amiibo stock often doesn't even arrive for store opening, meaning it would be a pointless effort. I have gone in 3 hours after store opening on occasion and the shipment of new Amiibos has "just arrived" (this happened specifically with Olimar/Dr. Mario/Bowser. Jr - store clerk told me they hadn't arrived yet, then one of his co-workers literally came out and said they just got them).
-Most Amiibo releases for me happened when I was still in college. College is more important than Amiibos, I can chance going down later after college (or I just tried to pre-order as many as possible on GameStop.ie or on a European Amazon).
-A lot of shady folk wander my town at night. I would like to avoid them as much as possible.
Also camping out for $13 toys is never a necessity. It's a privilege. You don't have to do it to survive, and most people consider it a pleasant social experience from what I have seen. It also doesn't kill you if you miss out on a figure, they get restocked the vast majority of the time. I would try camping at least once myself, but for the aforementioned reasons, I cannot, since camping for Amiibos isn't a thing you can do here.
I am pretty much done with this argument anyway due to all of the baffling comments that I've seen made here. If American Amiibo consumers want to keep having a sense of melodramatic pity for themselves, that is fine. Just don't put a target on the head of everyone else or act like they have it so much better, because we don't.
