/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8987985
If they aren't already pissed that a beloved children's show butchered ancient Egypt, me saying something ain't going to do shit.

>mfw still more pissed over shitty 4Kids censoring than the Egyptian history stuff

>>8759564
>>8759689
>>8759741
>>8759992

Different anon but just throwing my two cents in.

Yes, I like buying legitimate merchandise but for my T&B bag I was lucky that the fandom is old enough to where I could get Taobao questionable 'minor defect' factory reject chain figures for about $0.16 each but I could also get identical authentic gaschapon merch off Yahoo Auctions for about $0.25-0.50 a piece in the few available styles they had. If you looked at my bag you probably wouldn't even be able to tell which is Taobao and which is straight from Japan.

There's another set of characters I like from a much more recent (and more popular) series that their tiny buttons alone go for about $5 each second hand and there's no way right now I could afford the funds to dedicate that much money because in merch fees and From Japan fees it would cost probably close to $100 just to fill half a bag and that's way too ridiculous for a convention-only bag. If they had readily available factory reject merch on Taobao, I'd definitely buy there and use the bulk of that to decorate my bag and with the money saved, put towards larger merch from Japan like a plushie or something to that effect since it's actually cheaper to spend $30 on one big item that it would have been to get the small decorative items.

I know some people aren't going to be okay with the very idea of buying merch from Taobao, even if it ends up being legitimate merchandise that just didn't meet quality standards enough to be sold in Japan but then again, some people are also not going to be okay with the idea of using non-official merch like fan-made stuff on your bag because you spent money on something someone else created instead of putting that money towards supporting the creators of the character/show.

So it's entirely subjective and gets debated to death every few threads regardless of the reasons behind it and honestly I forgot where I was going with this wall of text.

>mfw bidding on five wigs all under 45min remaining

I can do this.