@rise9 Up until around January, Amiibo were pretty easy to find. All of them. It might have been toward the end of that month, but that's when I started noticing that NOTHING outside of the mainline characters (Mario, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, etc) were at stores. On Amazon here, figures other than that were double or more than the retail value. Villager is listed at about 8,000 yen ($66 USD with the current exchange rate). Even the ones that aren't even released yet (like Nes, for example) are already set on Amazon at 3,000 + yen.
It's getting bad here, too, so personally, I'm not too keen on getting anything that is going to cost me more than the standard retail price.