After years of hobbyist toy collecting and holiday selling on Ebay, the timing seemed right to enter the global market via the internet. With extremely limited funds available, an internet website domain availability search was conducted, yielding positive results. For a small monthly fee and a one-time initial set-up fee(which was waived) www.badasstoysforbadassboys.com was born. With such a down-trodden economy, and toy competitors either going out of business, or at least not emerging into the main market, the timing was perfect. Big Box stores are swallowing up competition whole, due to the amount of foot traffic they enjoy and the fact that they need only make a minor percentage on their HUGE amount of volume. The Big Box stores have been infiltrating and saturating the online market for years thanks to their excessively large budgets. Let's be honest, Big Box stores can provide decent customer service and toys in mass quantities. What those stores cannot provide, however, is the high quality, hard-to-find toys and collectibles that do not make it to general store stock, or those toys that are required to be preorders due to their collector and/or limited edition status. www.BadassToysforBadassBoys.com was the first to offer the latest and hottest Mega Bloks Halo Covenant Prowler for sale on the internet. It was offered through our website and Ebay both. It is currently sold out and we are awaiting our restock shipment which is due in March. Many online sites and smaller toy stores, thrive on secretly preordering the toys they know will be in extreme demand, or those that are limited editions. Collectors then have to pay insanely inflated prices to locate and procure these toys. Some toys often sell for 3 to 4 times the manufacturer's suggested retail price. www.badasstoysforbadassboys.com is thriving by doing the opposite. We keep consumers informed and up-to-date about what is coming out, and what we think will be hot or hard-to-find toys! We constantly try to add new information and add product lines as we see fit or can handle with our limited staff and budget. Honestly, we do our research of online toy retail competitors in an effort to set our prices and maximize our profits, but that is only when we have excess stock. Our primary means of business, is through preorder sales. Our preorder prices are set independent of what others are charging as we simply compute our minimum thresh-hold that allows us to remain in business and do what we are passionate about: Survive another day so with Toys we can play! Many toys achieve preorder sold out status which is more beneficial to us than taking a gamble that we may be able to charge an additional 20%-30% at a later date. Add the cost of holding inventory, and it becomes apparent why focusing on preorders is mutually beneficial to both our customers and our business! We would really appreciate you taking the time just to browse us. There is NO REGISTRATION required! We would love your comments and/or suggestions for new features or your favorite toy line! Some of our featured lines are Star Wars, Halo, Dead Space, Doctor Who, older Colorforms and Mega Bloks Halo playsets! New product lines are being added all the time! We will soon incorporate a blog and forums! We are very proud of the hard work everyone has put in to achieve the global impact we have already had on setting prices for online sales. Although hobbyist collecting and sales has occurred for more than 15 years, our official site began in November of 2010, and we look forward to our further growth and one year anniversary in 2011!
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