I think another reason for the "I'll pass", "Yeah whatever", "not worth it in my book" stuff that Anton mentions could be due to the number of new figures being released. Back a while, a new figure release was more of a earth shaking event, so everyone "needed" it as it would be the only new figure for the next 8 months, but nowadays there seems to be a new figure coming out every few weeks. That could also be a reason for people saying that they don't need it, or its not cheap enough for them to get it (as they don't really need it and would be just getting it for collecting reasons) these days.

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