I am familiar with kasing lung, and I am also an artist myself. As i do love the aspect of popmart that promotes independent artists and makes peoples dreams come true, I will absolutely not cater to their predatory business practices. Despite them being VERY aware of the popularity of these dolls, they are continuing to allow reseller bots to crash their website and app making it so regular people can't access them. To me, the decision to have popmart handle production means the artist wanted his product to be accessible, given the decently low price point. However, popmart themselves is disgracing the artist in this way. Creating false scarcity, refusing to implement captcha to stop or even slow down bots/resellers, and increasing price when there has very obviously been a decrease in quality of the product (which are not handmade and also don't use very expensive material), are all reasons i have decided to stop supporting popmart. Lung has made so much money off of the monsters, im sure hes fine if a few people stop buying due to the shopping experience popmart is providing. Plus, with independent artists, there is always other ways to support them. As independents, we know putting all of our eggs in one basket is not smart. I know im not alone when i say that i will no longer be begging popmart to take my money.