Ryan81398
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Post by Ryan81398 on Jul 14, 2013 5:39:51 GMT -5
Sounds like you should've bought it first? You can't blame others just cause you been slippin. Can't win 'em all. You and I need to have a good wallet to wallet talk.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 9:54:57 GMT -5
In my 35 mile drive to work, I pass six walmarts, three targets, and a TRU. If I wanted to buy up all the stock,it'd take an hour at most. That's not time consuming. 10 stores and drive 35 miles in an hour? Good luck with that 1. The drive is like, 27 minutes. So an hour and a half, two tops for traffic to buy up every HTM I see and flip them for minimum profit while I'm already not doing anything other than driving? NBD.
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jul 14, 2013 10:03:17 GMT -5
10 stores and drive 35 miles in an hour? Good luck with that 1. The drive is like, 27 minutes. So an hour and a half, two tops for traffic to buy up every HTM I see and flip them for minimum profit while I'm already not doing anything other than driving? NBD. What sunglasses do you wear, steve?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 10:16:17 GMT -5
I have a couple of cheap pairs from Target, but idk what that has to do with anything.
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Jul 14, 2013 14:35:56 GMT -5
The way I see it is, if they have say 5 Mysterio's (for example) and you can make a profit off them, take 4 and leave one for someone else. That way you're getting 3 to make profit on, 1 for yourself and someone else gets the enjoy the figure too.
there was a scalper at my local Smyths, I got fed up of going there and returning empty handed, people (including myself) stopped shopping there for figures, and now their shelves are stacked with Orton's, Cena's Mysterios. because people aren't taking their kids there anymore so no one is buying the mass produced guys, so Smyths aren't getting in the new stock as often.
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Post by airbud on Jul 14, 2013 16:11:23 GMT -5
I can honestly say scalping made collecting for me as a child nearly impossible. My favorite toys growing up were Starting Lineups, and those were possibly some of the hardest figures to come by in retail. The only places I would see players like Michael Jordan, Nolan Ryan, Joe Montana, etc. were at conventions or memorabilia shops, and they'd be priced at like $80 each, and these figures were no more than $6 in retail. I remember my dad taking me to the store once and there was an employee going through a new box of Starting Lineups with who I assumed to be a scalper. Even to this day, scalpers still piss me the off. Not for WWE figures, but mainly for concert tickets. There's been several times, where I wake up at 10AM on the day tickets go on sale for a show and the GA standing area is sold out. Long and behold there are thousands of tickets in those sections on Stubhub going for up to 10x the value. There's been times where I actually breakdown and buy tickets off stubhub and I receive them and the name on the tickets is some weird Nigerian name. Yep, I could totally see some guy from Nigeria flying to NYC with his buds to see some indie rock shows.
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 15, 2013 9:34:14 GMT -5
he might as well have had another thread titled: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SCAMMING because he just got banned....again What did he get banned for? Was it really for being a bad trader? I bought a lot of 400+ figures from him a few months ago for $500 and it was one of the smoothest transactions I've ever had on here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 11:54:05 GMT -5
There is no right or wrong answer on Scalping as it is more of a moral issue when it comes to toys. Personally, I dislike it and ran a website for years dedicated to helping Collectors network with each other. If I had the time, I would still be doing it today. There are many collectors that maintain tight schedules between family, work or other factors. Scalping limits their ability to enjoy the hobby. Some are in a demographic that does not afford the luxury of multiple stores to hit on top of this....they also lose out through no fault of their own. Couple this with the fact that most retailers now carry a fraction of the stock they did 10 years ago and you see how hard it is to be a collector today. There is a negative stereotype to scalpers..and 99% of the time it holds true. If Collectors would make the effort to help each other more and not feed or fuel the scalpers as PJ said, we could all make the hobby more fun for ourselves an others. And it was a great site. What's up? How's the family? We are good..how about you? It's been a long time brother...we need to get together one day
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Ryan81398
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Post by Ryan81398 on Jul 16, 2013 12:09:12 GMT -5
he might as well have had another thread titled: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SCAMMING because he just got banned....again What did he get banned for? Was it really for being a bad trader? I bought a lot of 400+ figures from him a few months ago for $500 and it was one of the smoothest transactions I've ever had on here. I don't know why he got banned, but you're lucky. I was going to order some stuff from him, and we almost had an agreement. He started ignoring me, then, he put up that they were gone, even though he just ignored me.
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