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Post by Showstopper on May 11, 2018 16:50:24 GMT -5
Great. Mattel can say no to exclusives. A great company never says no to good money. Unfortunately most of you are bitter because you can’t find the store exclusives. It's not about being bitter. Customers should be able to find the product in the store. The easier it is for customers to find the product, the more product the company will sell, and the more money they make. But figures showing up in some stores in some areas and in some cases NEVER appearing in a state or region of the country is good business, I suppose..
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Post by Ultimate Figure Collector on May 11, 2018 18:43:36 GMT -5
A great company never says no to good money. Unfortunately most of you are bitter because you can’t find the store exclusives. It's not about being bitter. Customers should be able to find the product in the store. The easier it is for customers to find the product, the more product the company will sell, and the more money they make. But figures showing up in some stores in some areas and in some cases NEVER appearing in a state or region of the country is good business, I suppose.. I have lived in New Jersey and now I live in Michigan. I have never had an issue finding any exclusive figures at retail. Elite sets? Sure but that’s why I’ve been ordering those sets from Ringside for years. Mattel has made mistakes overproducing certain waves, which it seems they realized because NXT Series 3, HOC, and the new Walmart Flashback figures have been easy enough to find, but haven’t been sitting on shelves. NXT Series 3 took awhile because of the NXT Series 2 Asuka, but now they have shown up and have been available on the website.
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Post by Showstopper on May 11, 2018 19:53:30 GMT -5
It's not about being bitter. Customers should be able to find the product in the store. The easier it is for customers to find the product, the more product the company will sell, and the more money they make. But figures showing up in some stores in some areas and in some cases NEVER appearing in a state or region of the country is good business, I suppose.. I have lived in New Jersey and now I live in Michigan. I have never had an issue finding any exclusive figures at retail. Elite sets? Sure but that’s why I’ve been ordering those sets from Ringside for years. Mattel has made mistakes overproducing certain waves, which it seems they realized because NXT Series 3, HOC, and the new Walmart Flashback figures have been easy enough to find, but haven’t been sitting on shelves. NXT Series 3 took awhile because of the NXT Series 2 Asuka, but now they have shown up and have been available on the website. Check out the NJ Findings thread. No one has seen HOC yet in any part of the state. We've also had trouble finding a bunch of other exclusives. It is what it is.
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Post by walkingturtles on May 12, 2018 18:22:29 GMT -5
GameStop is really terrible with customer service and inventory. I went in their the other day and got a ln Elite 53 Seth I think, the one with the neon green looks like TRON outfit from Summerslam. They had just him and four list of Jericho figures which I had already gotten one from the other GameStop. I asked about more figures and everyone was confused and was like that is all we have. Went back in yesterday and they had the exact same Seth on the peg next to the Jerichos. Their was only one worker who was swamped. Gonna go back in and see if they tell me what’s in the back. Cause I would love to know cause clearly they had more, I can’t imagine them getting shipped a replacement Seth from a line from 2017.
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Post by disorder on May 12, 2018 18:23:56 GMT -5
I have lived in New Jersey and now I live in Michigan. I have never had an issue finding any exclusive figures at retail. Elite sets? Sure but that’s why I’ve been ordering those sets from Ringside for years. Mattel has made mistakes overproducing certain waves, which it seems they realized because NXT Series 3, HOC, and the new Walmart Flashback figures have been easy enough to find, but haven’t been sitting on shelves. NXT Series 3 took awhile because of the NXT Series 2 Asuka, but now they have shown up and have been available on the website. Check out the NJ Findings thread. No one has seen HOC yet in any part of the state. We've also had trouble finding a bunch of other exclusives. It is what it is. I got my Eddie in nj and saw the whole set at another store. Every time I go through jersey I find exclusives or figures my state hasn’t got yet. And someone reported finding them in the nj thread. If you can’t find it, doesn’t mean distribution sucks or that it’s a failure.
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Post by disorder on May 12, 2018 18:25:44 GMT -5
GameStop is really terrible with customer service and inventory. I went in their the other day and got a ln Elite 53 Seth I think, the one with the neon green looks like TRON outfit from Summerslam. They had just him and four list of Jericho figures which I had already gotten one from the other GameStop. I asked about more figures and everyone was confused and was like that is all we have. Went back in yesterday and they had the exact same Seth on the peg next to the Jerichos. Their was only one worker who was swamped. Gonna go back in and see if they tell me what’s in the back. Cause I would love to know cause clearly they had more, I can’t imagine them getting shipped a replacement Seth from a line from 2017. Certain types of stores get small broken down cases sent from their distro centers. Not sure if GameStop is one of them, but that’s why you’ll see a store only get 3 figures sometimes and nothing else
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Post by Showstopper on May 12, 2018 18:51:47 GMT -5
Check out the NJ Findings thread. No one has seen HOC yet in any part of the state. We've also had trouble finding a bunch of other exclusives. It is what it is. I got my Eddie in nj and saw the whole set at another store. Every time I go through jersey I find exclusives or figures my state hasn’t got yet. And someone reported finding them in the nj thread. If you can’t find it, doesn’t mean distribution sucks or that it’s a failure. Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either.
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Post by aggressiveperfectpoor on May 15, 2018 12:02:48 GMT -5
I got my Eddie in nj and saw the whole set at another store. Every time I go through jersey I find exclusives or figures my state hasn’t got yet. And someone reported finding them in the nj thread. If you can’t find it, doesn’t mean distribution sucks or that it’s a failure. Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. That's what I don't like about the findings board sometimes. It seems deader than disco a lot of the time.
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Post by Showstopper on May 15, 2018 22:16:27 GMT -5
Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. That's what I don't like about the findings board sometimes. It seems deader than disco a lot of the time. The NJ thread is very active.
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Post by Ultimate Figure Collector on May 15, 2018 22:44:44 GMT -5
I got my Eddie in nj and saw the whole set at another store. Every time I go through jersey I find exclusives or figures my state hasn’t got yet. And someone reported finding them in the nj thread. If you can’t find it, doesn’t mean distribution sucks or that it’s a failure. Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. What set hasn’t NJ got in? I lived in NJ my whole life until May 2017 when I moved to Michigan. I’ve found every store exclusive. Skipped elite sets? Sure, but we’re talking strictly store exclusives. Sets were not skipped.
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Post by PJ on May 16, 2018 5:59:36 GMT -5
I got my Eddie in nj and saw the whole set at another store. Every time I go through jersey I find exclusives or figures my state hasn’t got yet. And someone reported finding them in the nj thread. If you can’t find it, doesn’t mean distribution sucks or that it’s a failure. Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. I saw them at the Ridgewood NJ store a while back. The only set that I haven't seen in NJ yet is the last NXT set, but I am sure they have been there as well seeing I have seen them just over the boarder in Rockland NY.
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Post by Showstopper on May 16, 2018 14:21:06 GMT -5
Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. I saw them at the Ridgewood NJ store a while back. The only set that I haven't seen in NJ yet is the last NXT set, but I am sure they have been there as well seeing I have seen them just over the boarder in Rockland NY. Ah ok. There's been plenty in my area and central Jersey that I just haven't seen.
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Post by inevitabledeth on May 16, 2018 14:52:52 GMT -5
Interesting. I've been to North Jersey, Central, and South and haven't seen even one of them. Have seen everyone in the thread say the same, as well. That is also just ONE series. There have been plenty of others over the years we haven't gotten, either. What set hasn’t NJ got in? I lived in NJ my whole life until May 2017 when I moved to Michigan. I’ve found every store exclusive. Skipped elite sets? Sure, but we’re talking strictly store exclusives. Sets were not skipped. Well for one, I never saw the Fan Central elites in person until the day I found my Triple H. Luckily it was the only one I wanted. Then there's the Hall of Champion series, haven't seen any of those. As for skipped elites, it seems to happen all of the time. Only ever saw some of elite 55 in Deptford and never found Undertaker.
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Post by zartan666 on May 16, 2018 14:55:00 GMT -5
GameStop is really terrible with customer service and inventory. I went in their the other day and got a ln Elite 53 Seth I think, the one with the neon green looks like TRON outfit from Summerslam. They had just him and four list of Jericho figures which I had already gotten one from the other GameStop. I asked about more figures and everyone was confused and was like that is all we have. Went back in yesterday and they had the exact same Seth on the peg next to the Jerichos. Their was only one worker who was swamped. Gonna go back in and see if they tell me what’s in the back. Cause I would love to know cause clearly they had more, I can’t imagine them getting shipped a replacement Seth from a line from 2017. Certain types of stores get small broken down cases sent from their distro centers. Not sure if GameStop is one of them, but that’s why you’ll see a store only get 3 figures sometimes and nothing else Gamestop is one of those stores unfortunately. I work there part time. The only things we get full cases of are blind box figures. And now with even Funko pop figures, if someone hasn't pre ordered something from a particular set, we will not be getting any of the set in. Unless it's one of the lines that corporate thinks will sell well. For example we got a case of the Solo pop figures. But the smaller more niche lines we won't get. Hell we don't even get all exclusives. The pricing on these WWE figures sucks and there is no reason for them to be so high. But corporate thinks that for some reason they will sell at that price point. They wont. Here's what I recomend; preorder the figures you want, wait until they come in and when you see them in hand decide if they are worth it to you. You can still cancel. Whoever is working may give you a hard time about it but you can at least transfer the preorder funds to something else you may want. It's not ideal but at least you can know that the figures will be in your store this way. And in a few months will be marked down.
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Post by Ultimate Figure Collector on May 16, 2018 15:43:09 GMT -5
What set hasn’t NJ got in? I lived in NJ my whole life until May 2017 when I moved to Michigan. I’ve found every store exclusive. Skipped elite sets? Sure, but we’re talking strictly store exclusives. Sets were not skipped. Well for one, I never saw the Fan Central elites in person until the day I found my Triple H. Luckily it was the only one I wanted. Then there's the Hall of Champion series, haven't seen any of those. As for skipped elites, it seems to happen all of the time. Only ever saw some of elite 55 in Deptford and never found Undertaker. Fan Central figures have been harder to find everywhere because of the TRU situation. With that said, my brother did find a Bobby Heenan for me. I’ve also seen various reports in the NJ findings thread about people finding them. I will say NJ is very scalper heavy, it’s not that the stores aren’t getting figures in. Wrestling is just very popular in NJ, and also very scalper heavy.
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Post by inevitabledeth on May 16, 2018 16:07:25 GMT -5
Well for one, I never saw the Fan Central elites in person until the day I found my Triple H. Luckily it was the only one I wanted. Then there's the Hall of Champion series, haven't seen any of those. As for skipped elites, it seems to happen all of the time. Only ever saw some of elite 55 in Deptford and never found Undertaker. Fan Central figures have been harder to find everywhere because of the TRU situation. With that said, my brother did find a Bobby Heenan for me. I’ve also seen various reports in the NJ findings thread about people finding them. I will say NJ is very scalper heavy, it’s not that the stores aren’t getting figures in. Wrestling is just very popular in NJ, and also very scalper heavy. You're right about that. After all, I know of a few mini stores that resell them for 50% more than retail. Somebody was asking $45 for the 2nd DM Austin.
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Post by mpw on May 25, 2018 17:55:05 GMT -5
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Post by Crossfit Jesus on May 25, 2018 17:56:17 GMT -5
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Post by Nivro™ on May 25, 2018 18:14:23 GMT -5
I was told mine will be there Monday but the Shawn Michaels are still bumped back to 8/1 release.
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Post by Lucha on May 25, 2018 18:56:43 GMT -5
Was the price sticker easy to get off?
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