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The Bane of Figurine Collectors

I have not been collecting figurines for very long, and started only some time less than a year ago. Yet, I have faced one problem which many fellow collectors often face.

Put yourself in this scenario:

You walk into a figurine shop for a purchase. After paying for your figurine, you carefully look through all the stock of that figurine that the shops has, and one by one, squint your eyes through the details, searching for any flaws that the figurine might contain. You then pick the one which seems to be the most perfect one to you. When you get back home and open up the box, you are shocked. Your figurine is not as perfect as it looked back at the shop. An unpainted patch, a chipped off bit, a black patch over a light coloured portion, so on and so forth. You get pissed off, but only have your poor luck to blame.

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