I love how some are wanting more incentives like exclusive figures for the money they are paying... something only available to Barge buyers. I mean, it’s not like you’re getting a book, Jabba, or an exclusive dead Ithorian included in the purchase. It sounds like they want something new (like never before produced high demand barge/Skiff Guards that are only available through the sail barge to flaunt that they’re true collectors.
I’d think that would do more harm for Hasbro to go that route with backlash from fans that cannot afford the barge.
I personally would love for them to include a few figures with the barge, but I hear you. If you're not willing to fork over $500 for a barge, is an added $10-15 figure really enough to push hundreds of people to change their mind?
Personally I think they should have set a dollar target instead of a quantity of barges. They're looking for $2.5 million to make these things, so just be transparent about it. Then they'd have the option to add on incentives like other Kickstarter-like offerings. Not getting the numbers you wanted for the barge? Offer up an exclusive figure
for an additional cost, only available for those purchasing the barge. You get some new people committing to all the offerings and added funding from the thousands that already signed up. It's a simple way to get you to your target.
Take the Sectaurs Kickstarter for example. They set an initial offering of two figures and a target of $40k. The funding was off where they needed, so they added two more figures at the same $40k goal. That caused a surge, but still not enough. So they added troop builder figures and bumped the goal to $50k. That was enough to blow away the target and ideally they're still making profit on not just the initial figures, but everything that came after it.
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