New Costume Powers in the Market

The only "flaw" I see in Paragon Studios' pricing here is you thinking there is a flaw here.

You and I both know that these costume codes are not technically "worth" the $50+ dollars some people paid for them from places like eBay. And I never said that because they sold for $50+ elsewhere that Paragon Studios was automatically "justified" in charging $6 for them in their store.

But by the same token if there are in fact people out there who will pay $50+ for these things then it's a good bet there are other people who will pay at least $6 for them. If you can name me a business that would choose NOT to charge X amount of money for a completely optional vanity item when there are clearly people out there who will pay X amount for that item then I would be very surprised indeed.

You can't really equate this to something like the value of a collector comic you could buy from anyone. This is a purely "charge what the market will bear" situation coming from a sole-source vendor. As long as there are people out there willing to pay $6 for this thing that's how much Paragon Studios will charge for it and I would expect nothing less from them or any other company. *shrugs*

Fair enough. Once they were unique and indicated you'd been to a con/meet (or could buy them from someone who had), now they're common.


Interesting. I originally typed here that all my temp costume powers showed weapons, but I decided to log on quickly and check. My characters' weapons show on 2 of the 6 male temps: IDF Ranger, Clockwork, but not PPD Hardsuit, Praetorian Police, Rikti, or Freakshow Tank. Weird. (I don't have the female temps on my male characters, and was too lazy to do an exhaustive comparison.)


I don't have a stalker. All I know is, turning on Stealth, Steamy Mist, Shadow Fall, Superior Invisibility all cause the temp costume power to shut off and the character's power to come on. If you try to turn on the temp costumer power while one of those is running, you get a message in chat that you can shape shift while stealthed.

--NT

Good thing I didn't say (and made this point before) that there was a "flaw" in their pricing, just that the logic of "It sells for this much on eBay under completely different circumstances" is flawed.

I bet you'll win the next argument you make up in your mind as well. Have fun!

By simple logic your comment that Paragon Studios should not base their prices on what the third-party market will bear was a direct criticism of their $6 price point. If you want to try to distance yourself from the logical connection you were trying to make then more power to you.

As for "winning my next imaginary argument" I think I'll do pretty well since I do pretty well with the real ones like this.