WHY oh why are figures so damn expensive?!

One or 2 reasons. Some are well made others are pre-painted. Takes off the effort on you painting the figure. But still some cost $60 to $100 hurts alot. :cry: But there so awesome! You can't resist! :roll:

theyre expensive cause your either buying from the wrong sites , which IMPORT

or you're buying high quality figures

if you want the figures cheaper and at discounted Japanese prices..

www.1999.co.jp/eng

www.hlj.com

i prefer 1999.co.jp cause they actually discount the Japanese price
THOUGH , Shipping.. its going to be EMS.. so thats another 20-30$Aus Dollars.. back in the time when i ordered stuff.. but since AIG crisis.. i think its roughly USD25$ for the shipping

The average price of figurines appear to be going up these days, perhaps due to the rising costs of materials needed to produce them?

In any case, I have pre-ordered a few figurines within the range of 10000-14000 yen recently. From the prototype images, they appear to be of excellent quality, and hopefully, the end products live up to expectations. Personally, I don't mind paying more for these quality figurines and some of them are of the larger scales, around 1/4 - 1/5 actual size

ooo nice i think im gona buy 1 to =D

There are tons that are affordable, like $25 and less. You just won't be getting insanely high quality or huge 1/6 figures.

I swore to myself that my first figure would be Suzumiya Haruka from KGNE. Still to come, but you bet i'm gonna have it sooner or later. ^^

I mean PVC figure, cuz for action figures, I've already got my Sora. :3

most good figures have cost a least above $40. Actually i don't really like figure and just collect gunpla. But not when i saw Airi (Queen's Blade-Megahouse) and Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid-GoodSmile). Those 2 are my only figure untill now. And what made me poor for 2 months and i pending all my gunpla that i paid Hatsune Miku for $110, almost twice from normal price. -_-

I just learned something new about Ero. :3
That's alot though 0_0 and wtf, that's a weird looking figure you posted TDSA 0_0
I just saw another Masane Amaha figure I want now by browsing that link :3

Well, most dakimakuras cost equivalant or more then figures.
Try and figure out how much I blew on these.

http://www.hongfire.com/cg/showphoto.php/photo/140746
http://www.hongfire.com/cg/showphoto.php/photo/140611

Do you guys keep them in their boxes, or do you open them and display them somewhere?

Opened and on my shelf. I've never understood why you would keep them in the boxes: you can't fully appreciate them, and I would never be able to sell them.

I keep them in box until i buy a display box and put them inside to prevent dust stick into it.

open the one that i buy, keep in boxes for the "given by people" one

I usually find my some good deals on eBay, greanted they get you on shipping and handling. But for the most part I usually spend about 20-40 dollars for most of my figures. Although I did pay 100 dollars for this beauty. /. worth every penny!

I usually keep mine in the boxes. But that’s all going to change when I move into my apartment next week.

I just spent over $100 on some discontinued figures and am thinking of spending over $1000 for a full set of rare Sailor Moon figures. There's what, 7 or 8 figures in the set and they haven't been produced for about 10 years so I think that it's worth it. Though in the end I may just end up grabbing Mercury only and leaving the rest.

Normally I spend <$100 on my figures when they are new, but I can spend alot on some of the rare stuff, just look at the above statement.