THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SCALPING!

Lemme ask you something....Most scalpers are older people like 17+. Scalpers ruin a little kids trip to Toys R Us.They take everything and the kid is most likely to get upset. When I go to TRU I take 1 or 2 figures. Scalpers buy the whole ing aisle and there's there's nothing left for kids. NOT EVEN CENAS.....This is my point. There's 20 Year olds still playing with WWE Figs. My cousin is 8 and has been watching wwe for 4 years now. I take him to TRU when I see him and he goes to the WWE aisle. When he gets there, there is nothing nothing at all except those $20 power slammers he hates. I feel bad because he has 17 figures that are.worth about $50 all together. There's kids that don't know about Ringside, spam, Ebay, Amazon, and all those other sites that have figures and are huge fans of WWE because of SCALPERS… This is my point. I DON'T LIKE SCALPERS BECAUSE THEY TAKE ALL THE FIGURES AND LEAVE LITTLER KIDS WITH NOTHING.

I have a brother who is 10. When we go on the hunt for figures, he's heartbroken when scalpers take an unreasonable number of figures. He likes Cena, Orton, and Mysterio just fine, but I don't think he'd be ok with only seeing those guys over and over and over every time he went shopping.

Haha I think that's what he's trying to sway us into

I agree with you, and furthermore I think it is sheer arrogance to tell others what they can and can't do in relation to buying and selling or customizing figures... First come, first serve.
And while I'm at it, if I wanna buy figures and keep'em in the box, deal with it. It's my bloody figure. I'll burn it if I see fit. (Sorry but I have seen to many posts about MOC collectors that don't sit right with me)

I was watching someone in the WWE Aisle taking 5 of the same figure. So I said " Hey buddy are you really gonna take 5 of the same figure in a shop for little kids?". He said yup back to me and I snapped back "Ok have a good life ruining little kids trips to toys r us". After that I walked away.

Earlier this month a guy scowled at us because my brother grabbed B29 Eddie Guerrero right after the store opened.

He had three under his arm. Apparently, he was about to check out and changed his mind about leaving one.

Mouth-breathers man, they're the worst.

I'll put it this way. In my own opinion, this is the effects SCALPERS have on toys in general. When a hot item hits, they buy as many as they can as often as they can. Leaving shelves empty. Kids have their parents search local stores, some parents even search out of city stores via phone calls. They get a sence of saddnes when they can't meet the childhood demands of their children. So, instead of finding them that soecific toy, they look for another. BUT, videogames have become a mass seller due to over manufacturing and distribution. Making a video game much easier to obtain than a toy line. With this, the electronics department sky rockets in profits while the toy section plumets. This is going on now. Look at toy isles 10 years ago to now. One small section for action figures... Always looking bare. Now how often is a game selection bare unless a sale happend? Never...

This is pushing most retailers to do toy sales via their internet sites. Where, you have more of a chance to buy a figure or set then a store. But the scalpers know to his the store sites aswell. Along with Amazon and other online outlets.

This has pushed the youth further away from toys and more towards technology. Its no news that this generation is the TechGeneration.

My point here, is the hunt for toys at an actual store, is getting smaller and smaller every year. With the popularity of online shopping, I wouldn't be suprised to see the section demolished other than fisher price style toys for ages 1-5, and all other options via online.

Obviously in-store shopping is in danger by alot of other problems, such as income issues, gas costs, etc... But scalpers hitting stores is essentially forcing people to say screw it and choose an easier obtainable hobby. In the long run, we all get hurt by scalping.

The other TRU is good, just not the one I was speaking about,good thing about A1 & Being 14 is that I don't have the money to buy every figure released,but in there I can almost always buy something new or something I want,today's my birthday btw lol.

I get your point. I can only speak for myself. I started collecting seriously when Mattel bought the WWE rights. I wasn't aware of scalpers until two years ago. Since then I've seen 7 people either carrying an armful of the same figure or pushing a cart with A TON of figures in it. The majority of them happen around the holidays, where people are desperate to get a figure for themselves or as a gift and since they can't get it in their area...lo and behold! There's someone on eBay selling it double the price located not very far away.