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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AeroDm" data-source="post: 5640502" data-attributes="member: 13650">I actually prefer random overall because it ensures a higher quality average product. Companies aren't randomizing to try and trick you into collecting them all, it is something they are forced into due to realities of inventory management. If they produced 20 miniatures (one mini being a red dragon) in quantities of 1000 per mini and then everybody snatched up the red dragon, they'd have an inventory nightmare of distributors trying to return the unsold product because all customers wanted was the dragon.There are four options:(1) Sell "sets" where people buy all 10, or whatever, miniatures in a set. This forces the price to be too high because you have to include too many minis;(2) Sell only one miniature at a time and don't release a new one until the old one sells out. You'd probably just do iconic large minis which could be neat;(3) Randomize and hope the quality of the product pushes through the scorn of randomization;(4) Don't randomize and just take the losses from shipping, returning, and reshipping product to smooth out demand variances.In my mind, (3) is the most viable solution and so I am not surprised it is the one that keeps cropping up. Rant aside, $4 does seem a bit high. I'm imagining they are doing pretty small print runs and just struggling to amortize the cost of the mold which, iirc, can be upwards of $10k.</blockquote>