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Post by #DI-WHY? on Sept 27, 2012 14:36:29 GMT -5
You snooze you lose. Or in this case You go to school you lose. Okay. Ill say to my teacher "McElroy told me I could have the day off to complete Ricardo Rodriugez!!" ;D
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Post by Joejitsu22 on Sept 27, 2012 14:38:29 GMT -5
Go there early too and when the scalpers grab up all the figures and go to check out, tell a employee or manager right away that you saw the guy stick some items in his pocket in the aisle. Employees will distract him from checking out by searching him in the back and everything and you can cherry pick his cart then and take the figures you want and check out. Works like a charm I promise you. Just got to have the guts to tell an employee you witnessed the scalper stealing and they will for sure pull him aside and check him. Don't do this. Some scalpers are flat out scum, but others are just trying to earn extra income to feed their family. Very bad accusation, and they probably won't check the guy anyway since by law they can't. You can try complaining that said scalper is buying up all the stock on what you are looking to purchase and that is why your family had to drive 50 miles to get there. A manager might tell the guy limit 1 per customer. It is a bit of a stretch but I had a situation like this work for me once at a Target. This scalper was buying an endcap of Transformers (the whole endcap, no joke) I asked the guy to spare one for me, he said "no" then we started arguing. A manager came over, I explained my gripe, and then the manager told him "Limit 2 per customer" (the endcap was all of the same figure so 2 seemed reasonable) This scalper was seriously pissed, but he should have spared one when I asked him too instead of causing a scene. One of the proudest moments in my life. Feed their families? Really? That is the saddest excuse for scalping. If you are having trouble feeding your family I don't think you're blowing hundreds of dollars on toys and HOPING you make a profit. Get a real job. Or a second job.
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Post by #DI-WHY? on Sept 27, 2012 14:39:36 GMT -5
These BOPPV are about the only elites TRU orders anymore so I doubt you should worry about finding any of them! Yeah they're hard to find for like 2 or 3 months. Then thats all you can find until the new sets flood stores.
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Post by elbowdrops on Sept 27, 2012 14:49:39 GMT -5
I get the first one in the store and you get what you get. I mean I remember back to early years of my youth figure hunting and people going bananas at toysrus at midnight the day the star wars episode 1 figures were released. they dumped the boxes on the floor because people were climbing and pushing there way to get something. I've recently done some 9:30 am store openings and there are people there waiting to get stuff, it might not be wwe related, it might be something else.
It's like that with any product. Just like hot electronics, like launching of the WII. I stood out front of the Nintendo store in NYC at like 5 am till about noon and I was 1 person away from being let in to buy one, when they closed the line and said they were sold out.
I hate the aspect of "Camping" a store, but if you want the newest stuff right away sometimes you got to do it.
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Post by bababooey on Sept 27, 2012 15:22:38 GMT -5
I can't see that stores would really do much about scalping with most products. As a business you buy products to resell them. If someone comes to the register with 5 of the same figure it doesn't make sense to say "Sorry, you can't buy all these. Someone else might want them." You want to sell them as quick as possible. Now if there's a scene like someone mentioned I can see an employee telling the scalper to at least let the other person have one.
In situations where there is limited quantities and there's a lot of hype about the product I can see setting limits because you know they will sell. For example, video game systems, iPhone 5, etc.
It sucks that scalpers exist but it's not really gonna change.
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Post by blu3blazer on Sept 27, 2012 16:21:42 GMT -5
Don't do this. Some scalpers are flat out scum, but others are just trying to earn extra income to feed their family. Very bad accusation, and they probably won't check the guy anyway since by law they can't. You can try complaining that said scalper is buying up all the stock on what you are looking to purchase and that is why your family had to drive 50 miles to get there. A manager might tell the guy limit 1 per customer. It is a bit of a stretch but I had a situation like this work for me once at a Target. This scalper was buying an endcap of Transformers (the whole endcap, no joke) I asked the guy to spare one for me, he said "no" then we started arguing. A manager came over, I explained my gripe, and then the manager told him "Limit 2 per customer" (the endcap was all of the same figure so 2 seemed reasonable) This scalper was seriously pissed, but he should have spared one when I asked him too instead of causing a scene. One of the proudest moments in my life. Feed their families? Really? That is the saddest excuse for scalping. If you are having trouble feeding your family I don't think you're blowing hundreds of dollars on toys and HOPING you make a profit. Get a real job. Or a second job. I love this one. "Get a real job. Or get another job." Getting a job these days isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. I've been looking for a second job for the past year and a half and have had no luck.
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Post by pacey on Sept 27, 2012 16:35:10 GMT -5
At my TRU there are 4 regulars at open. There are 2 hot wheel guys, 1 wwe guy, and one guy who buys wwe/marvel/dc. The wwe guys buy for themselves. Around 5 when most people are getting off of work we have probably 5 regulars that are in a few times a week.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Sept 28, 2012 8:12:02 GMT -5
One of the proudest moments in my life. Feed their families? Really? That is the saddest excuse for scalping. If you are having trouble feeding your family I don't think you're blowing hundreds of dollars on toys and HOPING you make a profit. Get a real job. Or a second job. This is what I don't understand about mass buying of WWE figures. It seems like a huge investment for a paltry profit. Very few figures are going to net more than a few dollars higher than their retail, especially once you factor in Feebay's prices.
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Post by Joejitsu22 on Sept 28, 2012 8:19:17 GMT -5
Feed their families? Really? That is the saddest excuse for scalping. If you are having trouble feeding your family I don't think you're blowing hundreds of dollars on toys and HOPING you make a profit. Get a real job. Or a second job. I love this one. "Get a real job. Or get another job." Getting a job these days isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. I've been looking for a second job for the past year and a half and have had no luck. flipping figures is not a sensible alternative. if someone wanted a second job bad enough, fast food and such is ALWAYS hiring.
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