In my opinion, I believe it has. People have been complaining for years about how Funko is flooding the market with pops no one wants. They sit on the store shelves for a bit, end up with a discount sticker on them, and then eventually they disappear. Probably sold to another store for a fraction of the cost. Stores were taking a huge hit holding onto items that were taking up shelf space and not moving.
By slapping a number on pops, most of the LE have done very well. If you look at the recent conventions that had the mystery pops available, they were the bangers people wanted. Here's why:
1) It makes it harder for return customers to persuade the volunteers to "choose" the pop they would like to get because they are sealed
2) You're only allowed to get so many per visit to the booth, until the end of the day and if they have any more
3) People online have a chance to get a shared sticker, which they don't mind because some people aren't sticker snobs (I'm one of them
) I'd like to know what other people, who have been in the hobby for a while, think about the LE and mystery pops.
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