I'm happy for non-transferable orders, but ES definitely matters to me, and a lot of others. I wouldn't buy an expensive statue that had no ES no matter how much I liked it, with the exception of Blitzway as they don't pump them out in ridiculous numbers like Sideshow do. We're talking about a $900 statue in the case of this 1/3 PCS piece, and if you factor in several of them, thousands spent. It's not exactly small money, and for most us it's a very large amount of cash to spend on a material item.
It's not about greed, but it's about peace of mind knowing that I can comfortably invest that much money into these things and know that if I ever needed to sell my collection for whatever reason, I could comfortably get my money back or close to it at least. I would hate to spend thousands on a statue collection, only for it to not even be worth the resin it's cast in. Part of the fun is also knowing that you own something that is sought after and valuable. For small and cheap items, I don't really care.
Yeah and then you'd have all the people that rant and rave about Sideshow not showing their ES, or making TBD, screaming "Show Us the ES". Followed by rampant conspiracy theories about how Jerry ups the ES because "reasons".
