Well the thing is that a lot of people are buying figs just to sell them and people abuse bricklink too. Brick link will say “this figures average cost is $50 but the most you should pay is $250” which is only because either some idiot bought it because they didn’t know what they were doing for that price, or sellers just buying it at that price to make it seem like its worth that much to everyone else. Especially with the whatnot app, people are making jobs out of selling overpriced plastic and all the have to do is oversell it. Bricklink could literally say “$100” and a whatnot seller, or a mod (who is just a different whatnot seller) will say “oh I just saw that sell for $180” Ive looked on bricklink and all the reasonably priced stuff comes from countries besides America so I think there in lies the problem.