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Post by mrhoss on Apr 27, 2019 6:45:16 GMT -5
There are contracts involved with the manufacturer regarding resets. Generally, the retailer (aka the manufacturer’s customer) and the manufacturer agree on a date to change out product on shelves and they agree on an amount the retailer will charge back to the manufacturer to cover the cost. Also, the older products that are taken off the shelves are usually marked down (aka put on clearance) to get the product out of inventory. The retailers then also charge back the manufacturer for the money lost by selling at clearance. All this makes dates important from a finance perspective. It flows into budget allowances and various forecasts. It can also impact performance evaluations of the sales person on that retailer’s account if stuff gets out of control. <edit> Fair, but the businessman in me is still screaming: "PEOPLE CAN'T BUY WHAT'S NOT ON THE SHELF!"<edit> I can see a street date to allow the transition from Bandai to Hasbro, but in this case, the majority of Hasbro's Power Rangers product had been on the shelves for weeks leading up to Easter. For some reason the Lightning Collection was singled out, which should really only be a niche product catering to collectors.
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Post by punksnotdead on Apr 27, 2019 7:55:22 GMT -5
Target’s been a bunch of sh*t heads with the street dated stuff as of late. My kid tried to buy the 12” Thanos because they put it out early and they literally took it away from him at self checkout. I didn’t know it was street dated and it scanned like normal at the price checker. Then it happened AGAIN with one of the $10 Spider-man figures on Thursday. I literally went down the street to Walmart and bought the exact same toy for him. So add that along with my Power Rangers experience, so two Tommy’s from Walmart and a Zedd from Amazon that Target would not sell me, and I’m done with them outside of exclusives, which I can grab off eBay. I’ve been a Target shopper since the 90s and they can go themselves over this whole deal. You can’t have it both ways. Either your employees or competent enough not to put the toys out until they should be sold, or you let people buy them once they’re out.
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Post by TheLastDude on Apr 27, 2019 17:18:38 GMT -5
And of course, the one Walmart I've been checking every other day decided to restock their shelves last night when I didn't check. Can you guess which was the only figure that was bought?
Yeah, I'm already sick of this line if this is how it's going to be.
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Post by bigm25 on Apr 27, 2019 17:23:19 GMT -5
If anybody in here is having a hard time with these or more specifically zed I’d gladly grab one and trade if it’s of high importance I’m realistically and obviously looking for wwe dunne or any nxt 4
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Apr 27, 2019 17:29:12 GMT -5
Why do people always assume $20 toys are for collectors only?
My kid has had elites, legends and legacy rangers for years now and hes 7.
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Post by mrhoss on Apr 28, 2019 12:55:37 GMT -5
It's not the price. Kids can be collectors or like finer toys. I just don't consider ML, LC, or Black to be the main focus of Hasbro,Target, Walmart, or the average person buying a toy.
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Post by PJ on Apr 28, 2019 13:11:14 GMT -5
While street dated stuff sucks when it has been put out early and you get denied at the registers, but both Target and TRU has held my stuff for me for the date when I asked them to.
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Post by TheLastDude on Apr 28, 2019 16:13:21 GMT -5
While street dated stuff sucks when it has been put out early and you get denied at the registers, but both Target and TRU has held my stuff for me for the date when I asked them to. Yeah, that was one thing TRU was always awesome about. If they put something out early, they wouldn't break street date, but they always took my number and held it for me. I never had them refuse to do that. Target and Walmart around here both do the "too bad, so sad" thing and tell me I have to come back at whatever random ass time it'll go back out that even they don't know and buy it then.
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Post by PJ on Apr 28, 2019 17:36:23 GMT -5
While street dated stuff sucks when it has been put out early and you get denied at the registers, but both Target and TRU has held my stuff for me for the date when I asked them to. Yeah, that was one thing TRU was always awesome about. If they put something out early, they wouldn't break street date, but they always took my number and held it for me. I never had them refuse to do that. Target and Walmart around here both do the "too bad, so sad" thing and tell me I have to come back at whatever random ass time it'll go back out that even they don't know and buy it then. the only time it happened to me at Target was with the Aquaman stuff. It was put out two days before the release and when I was denied at the registers the front end manager put it behind the customer service counter with my name and I got it on the release date.
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Post by TeamFnKick on Apr 29, 2019 5:50:38 GMT -5
Looks like they aren’t register locked at target anymore. Found white ranger at target. Then spent the rest of the day looking for zed.... effing meijer of all places came through
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Post by dgnr8 on Apr 30, 2019 1:25:24 GMT -5
I have the white ranger and Zedd Lightening Collection figs pre-ordered at GS, but I was shocked to find these in my local Walmart yesterday, so I went ahead and bought them. They are really great in person.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Apr 30, 2019 7:56:18 GMT -5
Anybody know what the timeline is for the rest of the Lightning Collection? More specifically, the Original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers characters.
Having the White Ranger and Lord Zedd and seeing how AMAZING they are....I'm all in on this line for essentially any Original MMPR character.
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Post by punksnotdead on Apr 30, 2019 8:34:41 GMT -5
Anybody know what the timeline is for the rest of the Lightning Collection? More specifically, the Original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers characters. Having the White Ranger and Lord Zedd and seeing how AMAZING they are....I'm all in on this line for essentially any Original MMPR character. We're only getting Tommy and Jason as far as we know this year. Zedd is in this wave and Goldar is a GameStop exclusive coming in October. Seems to be about it for 2019. So at this rate, you can figure to have the whole MMPR team by the end of 2021. This is largely how Hasbro has handled the Star Wars Black Series outside of the Episode 7 and 8 movie support. So this is likely our reality with this line for the foreseeable future.
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Post by TheLastDude on Apr 30, 2019 14:58:34 GMT -5
So, I checked two more Walmarts last night after work. One did their reset, but for some reason, haven't stocked the LC figures. The other was just starting the reset, so I knew I was screwed there. Sure enough, I just checked the Brickseek and the store that was doing the reset is down to 7 already. I don't need to go to see which figure was already bought. Between the stupidity of shortpacking an in-demand character and stores and their hugged up stocking schedules, I won't be jumping through any more hoops for Hasbro or retail. Good luck guys, I'm out.
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Post by ckhybrid on May 1, 2019 19:54:22 GMT -5
I gave up waiting for Target to update my order and I give up looking in stores, I ordered Lord Zedd on eBay for $30, I had $20 in my PayPal balance, so I'm going to pretend I only paid $10 for it lol. Can't wait to get it in hand.
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Post by punksnotdead on May 2, 2019 7:24:31 GMT -5
I gave up waiting for Target to update my order and I give up looking in stores, I ordered Lord Zedd on eBay for $30, I had $20 in my PayPal balance, so I'm going to pretend I only paid $10 for it lol. Can't wait to get it in hand. I’ve gone with this mindset a few times before too haha.
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Post by ckhybrid on May 2, 2019 8:06:39 GMT -5
I'm glad I went ahead and got it on eBay last night, got ANOTHER email from Target saying my order was delayed another week, just waiting on the shipping confirmation from the eBay seller before I cancel my Target order now.
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Post by TheChamp420 on May 5, 2019 12:43:38 GMT -5
Guy from TArget brought me out a fresh case! Grabbed Zed & Tommy!
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Post by JC Motors on May 6, 2019 16:47:27 GMT -5
I saw that Gamestop sells that Power Morpher belt buckle. Man is that thing expensive.
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Post by ckhybrid on May 7, 2019 17:34:42 GMT -5
son of a b*tch. I finally got the Lord Zedd figure in the mail from eBay, I took a picture of it MOC, then opened it, took the figure, hands, staff and lightning effect out, and come to realize there is no grow bomb. I am so pissed. In the sellers picture you can CLEARLY see its in the box, I looked back at the picture I took of it MOC before I opened it, and it's not in there.
I searched everywhere thinking it fell out of the plastic and into the package and maybe rolled on the floor when I opened it, nope. Nowhere to be found. I am depressed to say the least.
Besides that debacle, the figure is absolutely gorgeous in person. I saw someone on Ranger Board painted him with a chrome pen and it looks insanely good, I might give that a try.
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