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  1. I would absolutely much rather support Luke than anyone else, but I can never afford to pay for anything up front (unless I'm getting it at that moment, obviously - I don't preorder groceries, lol), especially large bulk orders (a single wave of Minimates is bare minimum $32), but being able to reserve it for free gives me time to save up, the grace period to pay once it comes into stock helps me make sure I have the money saved (or at the very least move that saved amount to the right card - I've learned the hard way too many times to not have any funds on the cards I use online, just in case someone gets ahold of the number), and the Pile of Loot feature lets me pile months worth of toys up to ship for $4 flat (they used to start with a $7 charge, then 90cents-$1 per additional item depending on weight, so even then I'd get a thousand dollars worth of toys from 8 months of ordering for around $12-15). 

    Being smaller, I don't expect Luke to compete with any of that, because I know he's got a much higher overhead, especially with shipping (being an occasional eBay seller or even trader on these boards, I have a hard time sending two Minimate packs for under $6 - I would never expect Luke to be able to ship a 4'x4' box for $4), and I know "if you don't support the little guy, the little guy won't be around much longer," but I don't make a lot of money, and I try to make every penny count, and if I have to pay even a few dollars more for Minimates even if it's just the shipping and not the toy prices themselves, that means I have to get fewer Minimates. :confused:

  2. I lived through this myself with Tower Records, and my mother did with Borders.

    What pisses me off about crap like this, and every other unjust BS in this country, is that the people this affects outnumber the people this benefits. We all need to stop fighting each other, and take them down.

    If only 200 people stop paying their taxes, they go to jail, and the politicians keep raking in their 6-figure incomes. But if everyone in the country stops paying their taxes, the politicians lose their salaries, and have to do what we say in order to even get a paycheck comparable to a McDonald's employee, let alone more.

    But everyone has to cooperate. Half the union can't strike while the other half are scabs.

    I don't honestly know what I could've done for Tower Records or my mom for Borders or Jason for TRU to keep them from closing while the execs get rich, but the fact that this keeps happening to the working class, while the "suits" not only get off scot-free, but benefit from it, needs to f*cking stop, and there has to be something that we can do to fight back in the future.

  3. We might get him in the Walgreens animated line, as IIRC, Zach said we're getting a new character who could double for their movie version as well, and the animated Collector looks exactly like Del Toro's version.

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