It was still to expensive even when it was on sale, you could literally fit it in a normal four inch box, no way in hell am I paying 30 plus dollars for that!
I’ve said it from the first price hikes: funko will continue to find bullshit reasons to charge us more, and it’ll keep happening until people show some restraint and stop making excuses for them. If you’re buying pops that are “plus” or “premium” or whatever, you are the reason they keep getting away with it. I love pops and I’ve been collecting for over +10 years, but you have to have standards and enough self control to not let companies take advantage of you. At the end of the day, they don’t care about you, they got you hooked and they know it, and theyll continue to find ways to get as much of your money as possible. SkittleRampage thank you for continuing to make videos that prompt discussions like this 💪🏽
Yeah, it is a little annoying they are starting to put pops I like behind these extra $3-$8 pay walls. People think it's a small amount, but it just adds up over time.
In Europe is far worst, we are ripped off in prices. Example of new John Cena exclusive, 15$ in USA, and 25€ in Europe. Take into consideration that € is stronger than $, so it has no sense.
This, like here in Slovenia commons are 16 to 18 EUR, it's crazy, even Funko Europe has that price range, not to mention convention exclusives which are 25 to 30 EUR
I am glad Funko Pop collectors are not as dumb as I thought they were! Me, being one of them. LOL I actually refuse to "chase" any of them and never have. Nice, informative video, glad you are calling them out.
If enough of us get selective I would hope the funko team would be smart enough to reduce prices back to the standard. Unfortunately I feel like they will continue this trend and just tank the company.
I agree with everything you said, except for that Chalice Collectibles Buggy you mentioned, because if you have an exclusive Funko Pop, with no protector, no Pop Plus, or any of those categories, why would Funko make it $20? They have almost everything set to $15 because that’s the common price for an exclusive these days, so I don’t think that Funko would even care that Chalice gave it a $5 increase!
Plain and straightforward, Funko capitalizes on the One Piece fandom and knows they are hardcore collectors. They overcharge and squeeze every penny out of you guys knowing most of you will pay top dollar due to FOMO. This same hype is spilling over to Demon Slayer now, with prices varying all over the place with "plus" pricing. It is getting to the point where I no longer want to buy and just wait for someone to sell their collection and get it cheaper. This may be my opinion, but it is an exploitation of the One Piece fandom, which sucks for general funko collectors, such as myself, who collect for fun and not to resell.
Im in the month of collecting Funko Pops, and these inconsistency of pricing bothers me This is the reason why 2nd-hand market is my best option to buy one
Inarius 952 (Diablo IV), Malthael 992 (Diablo 3) and Sasuke Curse mark 2 1664 are commons but they are so beautiful, very detailed and bigger than a normal size pop. They look better than the city hunter (pop plus)
QotD: I like the Funko prices of $15 for an exclusive but don’t like how the company is forcing us to buy a hard stack with it, like why? Nice new video Skittle ❤
Brand new pops in Australia $23 to $28 up from $20 to $25 some come with protective covers at the same price as the ones without covers the bigger pops r pricey I find pop prices for new normal size pops ridiculous.
Good luck finding garp if you skip it. I personally don't give a shit about $5 when it comes to a new one piece character who don't already have a mold out
Funko always seemed to be inconsistent in their prices and what gets a bigger box and what doesn't. I don't know for a fact that the predators don't have something I'm unaware of not being in their business upping the price. If I'm interested in a pop and don't want it due to that that will be a problem for funko. So far hasn't happened to me. I also don't buy enough pops where I feel this too much. I do prefer this over the empty giant boxes we got and hope it encourages better box instead of having funko try to cut corner. Hasn't seen that yet
I picked up the predator actually both and put them back doeb at my local BAM. Little silver line had me thinking this is interesting. NOT FOR THE PRICE!
I think Funko is losing money cause of the rise of Pop Mart's rise in popularity with blind box collectibles. Funko needs to update its approach or become obsolete 😢
I guess all the Funko Shop exclusive drops will include a protector for extra $5 ? I am guessing "Pre-Order" Pops charge you another $5 for a Pre-order fee? I don't know haha
QotD: funko exclusives should stay at 15 without forcing protectors. There's a reason no one buys the stacks or funko's protectors. We go somewhere else for those. That forced protector may cause a no sellout and discount them anyways down the line
I want funko to leave the prices alone leave them at 12$ for every thing 15 $ for exclusives is fine and keep plus pops between 12 and 15 also . Nothing on the deku vigilante screams 15 or 20$ to me at all in my opinion. 12$ for commons and 15$ for exclusives. And Plus at 12-15 $ that's what they should be in my opinion. There just trying force train us to pay more which we shouldn't except
The predator pop plus is actually pretty detailed in person, that and they also do more detail on the box as well. Im interested to see what the neji pop plus looks like way more tho. The predator was just some nostalgia on my end.
Price increases doesn't surprise me Walt Disney World hikes prices every October However I think Funko prices are very confusing Why should I pay more when I can find the same pop on Amazon for way less?
I collect Star Wars and Spiderman pops.Generally speaking pops are cheap.If you look at other figures like Marvel Legends and Black Series they will set you back around 25 - 30...Mafex and Yamaguch will charge between 85 - 130 for a 6 inch and Hot Toys are 280+ dollars for their 12 inch .They are bigger and WAY better so NOT comparing straight up but my point is pops are so cheap to begin with that I don`t really care about 2 - 5 dollars extra for some...
So if it will come with a protector will it be already installed on the pop? If it’s separate it will hurt the pop in shipping with funko stellar packing!
Specifically talking about the 5 packs.... the difference is still $5 per pop for the world series 5 pack.... it's just that over the 5 pops in the set it's a $25 price hike.... also how many of the world series 5 packs are 'new' molds, where as the dbz 5 pack is the same molds as the commons
Super niche, but something similar happened to the clash of clans community. They made terrible changes to the gold pass and a lot of people didn’t buy it and they reverted the changes. I won’t be buying Garp, don’t think anything will change but I’m passing
I feel like Funko price these at $20 because they knew they were one piece and one piece is such a hot seller. Then everyone complained and then they decided oh well we're including pop protectors with them which is absolute garbage!!!!! This company makes tons of money off of us and not here and there no they're making money off of us everday, Monday and Wednesday we're guaranteed a drop of some sort so right there they know they're going to make money. I feel like the Monkey D Luffy and Zoro gold statue pre-order was overpriced they charged us I believe it was $25 a piece for those and I don't remember it coming with a pop protector. Now we have all these pop plus and pop premium out which I'm sorry is them just stamping a name on something saying you're getting more of a product when you're not necessarily getting more of a product but yet we could get the pop and Buddy for a typically normal funko price. And I've noticed from the end of 2024 into 2025 now we have had an increase in what's called pop Plus and premium! We're gonna see this with Naruto, DBZ, One piece, Demon Slayer ,MHA, WATCH AND SEE!!! WE KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING FUNKO! IM SURPRISED THE WHITEBEARD RIDES HAS NOT JUMPED IN PRICE MORE! That being said you've got a lot of people who are behind your product and love Funko. You are making plenty of money where you don't have to price gouge us like this!
They charge less for common versions of pops with Chases, because they sell guaranteed Chases and Chase bundles. So they have an excess of commons when they have to order a bunch of inventory to get enough Chases for their guaranteed Chases they sell. I'm also under the impression that you'll never get a chase from them by only getting one or 2 of their regularly listed pops. As they're going to sort out and pull out all the Chases for their bundles.
They were charging $20 trying to capitalize on One Piece hype. People got outraged at the price switch. They tried to cover there behinds with free hard stacks they don’t sell.
One piece is their best selling line, which is why they made so much pops of them the last year and a half, a new wave every few months. They're trying to make extra bucks off the ones that sell to offset the ones that don't is likely why they're doing it.
I feel that Funko is getting money hungry and don’t care about the community. The price increase is crazy and unjustified specially when they are doing it to One Piece 🤬.
Thanks for watching, make sure to leave a like!
Will do
I felt so fucking ripped off for buying the buggy pop, 35 bucks was crazy I mean I can buy Whitebeard Ride with that bruh
Yeah I didn't consider that size difference with Whitebeard & Buggy!
It was still to expensive even when it was on sale, you could literally fit it in a normal four inch box, no way in hell am I paying 30 plus dollars for that!
Just always wait Funko always drop the price and doesn’t know how to market
Thank you for addressing this Skittles! 🙌
This is the reason why i stopped collecting. The prices make no sense.
Watch it be where the funko pop and the protector are both in separate boxes. So we'll still get screwed with our pops being damaged.
I’ve said it from the first price hikes: funko will continue to find bullshit reasons to charge us more, and it’ll keep happening until people show some restraint and stop making excuses for them. If you’re buying pops that are “plus” or “premium” or whatever, you are the reason they keep getting away with it. I love pops and I’ve been collecting for over +10 years, but you have to have standards and enough self control to not let companies take advantage of you. At the end of the day, they don’t care about you, they got you hooked and they know it, and theyll continue to find ways to get as much of your money as possible.
SkittleRampage thank you for continuing to make videos that prompt discussions like this 💪🏽
Yeah, it is a little annoying they are starting to put pops I like behind these extra $3-$8 pay walls. People think it's a small amount, but it just adds up over time.
In Europe is far worst, we are ripped off in prices. Example of new John Cena exclusive, 15$ in USA, and 25€ in Europe. Take into consideration that € is stronger than $, so it has no sense.
This, like here in Slovenia commons are 16 to 18 EUR, it's crazy, even Funko Europe has that price range, not to mention convention exclusives which are 25 to 30 EUR
I am glad Funko Pop collectors are not as dumb as I thought they were! Me, being one of them. LOL I actually refuse to "chase" any of them and never have. Nice, informative video, glad you are calling them out.
If enough of us get selective I would hope the funko team would be smart enough to reduce prices back to the standard. Unfortunately I feel like they will continue this trend and just tank the company.
I agree with everything you said, except for that Chalice Collectibles Buggy you mentioned, because if you have an exclusive Funko Pop, with no protector, no Pop Plus, or any of those categories, why would Funko make it $20? They have almost everything set to $15 because that’s the common price for an exclusive these days, so I don’t think that Funko would even care that Chalice gave it a $5 increase!
Plain and straightforward, Funko capitalizes on the One Piece fandom and knows they are hardcore collectors. They overcharge and squeeze every penny out of you guys knowing most of you will pay top dollar due to FOMO. This same hype is spilling over to Demon Slayer now, with prices varying all over the place with "plus" pricing. It is getting to the point where I no longer want to buy and just wait for someone to sell their collection and get it cheaper. This may be my opinion, but it is an exploitation of the One Piece fandom, which sucks for general funko collectors, such as myself, who collect for fun and not to resell.
Ive slowed way down collecting and have become much more selective on what funkos i buy
we wait for clearence, no price problem !
Im in the month of collecting Funko Pops, and these inconsistency of pricing bothers me
This is the reason why 2nd-hand market is my best option to buy one
Exactly why I stopped collecting
Inarius 952 (Diablo IV), Malthael 992 (Diablo 3) and Sasuke Curse mark 2 1664 are commons but they are so beautiful, very detailed and bigger than a normal size pop. They look better than the city hunter (pop plus)
QotD: I like the Funko prices of $15 for an exclusive but don’t like how the company is forcing us to buy a hard stack with it, like why? Nice new video Skittle ❤
as a canadian, i wish prices were the exact same as this 😱😱😱😱😱😱
In Europe Funko exclusive have always been 18 Euro
Brand new pops in Australia $23 to $28 up from $20 to $25 some come with protective covers at the same price as the ones without covers the bigger pops r pricey I find pop prices for new normal size pops ridiculous.
I completely agree with you it’s just that is crazy. How much these Funko pops are
I find it funny how the Venom with wings is a pop plus from spider man 2 but the spider man symbiote takeover is considered a normal figure 😭
It's just Funko helping us out by telling is which Pops are skippable by overpricing them
garp isn't skippable, he's the goat
What is a garp?
@@ToastGhost well feel free to watch the video and you will know
@ Just some random character?
Good luck finding garp if you skip it. I personally don't give a shit about $5 when it comes to a new one piece character who don't already have a mold out
Funko always seemed to be inconsistent in their prices and what gets a bigger box and what doesn't. I don't know for a fact that the predators don't have something I'm unaware of not being in their business upping the price. If I'm interested in a pop and don't want it due to that that will be a problem for funko. So far hasn't happened to me. I also don't buy enough pops where I feel this too much. I do prefer this over the empty giant boxes we got and hope it encourages better box instead of having funko try to cut corner. Hasn't seen that yet
Another reason to be more selective with my purchase
ive literally spent thousands of dollars on Funko Pops idk why so many arrived from Funko with damaged boxes its a real problem imo
I ordered like 8 funko pops online…. I’m kinda scared to see how they ship it.
I picked up the predator actually both and put them back doeb at my local BAM. Little silver line had me thinking this is interesting. NOT FOR THE PRICE!
Guys, guys, guys! Just buy funkos you REALLY want. We have consumed too much and now they wish to exploit their own consumer. Smh
I think Funko is losing money cause of the rise of Pop Mart's rise in popularity with blind box collectibles. Funko needs to update its approach or become obsolete 😢
The "plus" Is just the box 😅
I feel whitebeard’s price makes more sense. Ace (Execution) makes sense as well but some prices are making me consider what are they thinking?
That new rengoku should’ve been a glow
I guess all the Funko Shop exclusive drops will include a protector for extra $5 ?
I am guessing "Pre-Order" Pops charge you another $5 for a Pre-order fee? I don't know haha
I really hope the forced pop protectors do not become a trend because I do NOT want to pay for those! 😭🙏
I don't mind it
This video has funko shaking in their boots
QotD: funko exclusives should stay at 15 without forcing protectors. There's a reason no one buys the stacks or funko's protectors. We go somewhere else for those. That forced protector may cause a no sellout and discount them anyways down the line
Nope and my first order from Funko’s taking forever, when I now see the Pops I want everywhere now.
its still so much cheaper than most other figures, like 100s cheaper
I want funko to leave the prices alone leave them at 12$ for every thing 15 $ for exclusives is fine and keep plus pops between 12 and 15 also . Nothing on the deku vigilante screams 15 or 20$ to me at all in my opinion. 12$ for commons and 15$ for exclusives. And Plus at 12-15 $ that's what they should be in my opinion. There just trying force train us to pay more which we shouldn't except
The predator pop plus is actually pretty detailed in person, that and they also do more detail on the box as well. Im interested to see what the neji pop plus looks like way more tho. The predator was just some nostalgia on my end.
Ill skip all these pops. I just think there not selling out like they used to and now everything just goes on sale for 70% off like the recent sale.
because of the prices, I am considering to stop collecting because this is just the start of the disaster
Or at least become very selective, and waiting for sales. This is going to suck for convention exclusives if they make the best ones 20+.
Price increases doesn't surprise me Walt Disney World hikes prices every October However I think Funko prices are very confusing Why should I pay more when I can find the same pop on Amazon for way less?
Yes I'm starting to agree after seeing so many price variations just in 2024/25.
I collect Star Wars and Spiderman pops.Generally speaking pops are cheap.If you look at other figures like Marvel Legends and Black Series they will set you back around 25 - 30...Mafex and Yamaguch will charge between 85 - 130 for a 6 inch and Hot Toys are 280+ dollars for their 12 inch .They are bigger and WAY better so NOT comparing straight up but my point is pops are so cheap to begin with that I don`t really care about 2 - 5 dollars extra for some...
I completely agree with you
So if it will come with a protector will it be already installed on the pop? If it’s separate it will hurt the pop in shipping with funko stellar packing!
Funko trying to screw us over by raising the price on Ace and Garp from $15 to $20 dollars. Just for some pop protector that nobody asked for... 😫
Specifically talking about the 5 packs.... the difference is still $5 per pop for the world series 5 pack.... it's just that over the 5 pops in the set it's a $25 price hike.... also how many of the world series 5 packs are 'new' molds, where as the dbz 5 pack is the same molds as the commons
Super niche, but something similar happened to the clash of clans community. They made terrible changes to the gold pass and a lot of people didn’t buy it and they reverted the changes. I won’t be buying Garp, don’t think anything will change but I’m passing
thay do this people are willing to pay for it. they dont care if its fair. its all about money.
I feel like Funko price these at $20 because they knew they were one piece and one piece is such a hot seller. Then everyone complained and then they decided oh well we're including pop protectors with them which is absolute garbage!!!!! This company makes tons of money off of us and not here and there no they're making money off of us everday, Monday and Wednesday we're guaranteed a drop of some sort so right there they know they're going to make money.
I feel like the Monkey D Luffy and Zoro gold statue pre-order was overpriced they charged us I believe it was $25 a piece for those and I don't remember it coming with a pop protector.
Now we have all these pop plus and pop premium out which I'm sorry is them just stamping a name on something saying you're getting more of a product when you're not necessarily getting more of a product but yet we could get the pop and Buddy for a typically normal funko price. And I've noticed from the end of 2024 into 2025 now we have had an increase in what's called pop Plus and premium! We're gonna see this with Naruto, DBZ, One piece, Demon Slayer ,MHA, WATCH AND SEE!!! WE KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING FUNKO! IM SURPRISED THE WHITEBEARD RIDES HAS NOT JUMPED IN PRICE MORE! That being said you've got a lot of people who are behind your product and love Funko. You are making plenty of money where you don't have to price gouge us like this!
Video was recommended after Newjeans Funko pop just released for pre-order. Good detail video
Bet you they determine the upcharge by weight. Normal Nezuko is a heavy pop
Interesting didn't consider that thought!
The newjeans pops are 😮💨😮💨😮💨
It's a test but I think it also a good deal.
Qotd: Sometimes, yes! Mostly not...
I'll get them from ross or marshalls for $5
Anybody knows what stores I can get ACE in person??? Cuz I don’t wanna spend $65+ for free shipping on funko website 😢
Just pay the $7 shipping...?
@ I don’t want to pay for shipping 🤣🤣
I actually like this idea to hopefully it makes some people not order and it won’t sell out in 10 seconds lol
Is that Dark Deku!!!
Yeah! Pre-order on my Instagram or RUclips Community tab!
@@SkittleRampage Bet!! Also love the video's man. You're my number 1 Funko news guy and I hope you can keep making videos!!
Can you do a video on why chalice collectibles charges 20 on a pre order chance for chase, or pay 15 for the same pop for no chance for a chase
They charge less for common versions of pops with Chases, because they sell guaranteed Chases and Chase bundles. So they have an excess of commons when they have to order a bunch of inventory to get enough Chases for their guaranteed Chases they sell. I'm also under the impression that you'll never get a chase from them by only getting one or 2 of their regularly listed pops. As they're going to sort out and pull out all the Chases for their bundles.
@gilbertoflores7397 that's a good point. I will no longer be paying an extra 5 bucks for no chance of a chase. Thanks for the feedback
Funko lost me when they didn’t fix or care about my awakened gon order
wait why the hard stack from pop bad??
Well it’s not that bad, that Ghidora pop is awesome by the way.
It is awesome, I just don't understand the $5 difference when they pay less to produce it then gamestop pays to buy it from them if I'm not mistaken.
Is a 150$ a good price for og grimmjow
Yeah that is, make sure it's authentic though!
@ I’m not really sure what to look for but I’m pretty sure it is
They were charging $20 trying to capitalize on One Piece hype. People got outraged at the price switch. They tried to cover there behinds with free hard stacks they don’t sell.
One piece is their best selling line, which is why they made so much pops of them the last year and a half, a new wave every few months. They're trying to make extra bucks off the ones that sell to offset the ones that don't is likely why they're doing it.
What’s a hard stack again?
Just Acrylic/Hard Version of a Soft protector. Thinks of a like a Otterbox case for your IPhone.
Thank you so much! Best funk poper ever!
Its because one piece fans will buy no matter what, Just like me
Bro that vigilante deku pop plus shouldn’t be plus like bro it’s just a little bit of stuff on the feet
Like deku with eri or black whip isn’t a pop plus why is this one a pop plus
@@epicexplo I guess going forward they are just trying to make more money on these style molds.
Inflation
Yeah, but like I mentioned, it's gotta make sense to keep your customers.
i left a like.
Thanks!
@@SkittleRampage OMG you replied, just wanted to say we love your video's and are thinking of starting a channel!
I feel that Funko is getting money hungry and don’t care about the community. The price increase is crazy and unjustified specially when they are doing it to One Piece 🤬.
It’s just another example of Funko’s obvious and clear favoritism towards one piece.
One piece is trash
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