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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 15:14:07 GMT -5
There are ways around it. I have to deal with the biggest scalper site out there on a daily basis, because T0y W!z sends people to both Targets, TRU and WalMart every morning at opening to cherry pick the aisles. But how do you beat them easy you make friends I have a handful of friends where we help each other out for cost and shipping. And I have made connections at the stores I go to that hold stuff for me when they see it come in. So there are ways around it. I have never fed a scalper. Nor will I. And yes if it wasn't something I wanted enough to preorder and I don't find it locally...and if one of my friends have no luck finding it for me either then yes I just don't get it. I am not going to feed a scalper when I have my own family to feed. I have 2 Kevin Nash figures and I didn't find either. One I got because I received a text from a KMart employee who took my information a few days earlier when I was looking for the cube. He text me at 7am saying he pulled a Nash off the cube for me so I went and picked it up that morning then that night the mailman dropped off a package from a friend in Buffalo who found one for me and just shipped it out to me before even telling me he found it for me. Yes living in Canada or outside the US probably sucks for collecting in terms of availability of items, but again there are ways. As for shipping there's no "markup" by RSC because they don't set their shipping rates. Shipping rates are determined by their carriers. Once RSC signed their contract with the shippers they are sent software with all the rates preprogrammed. RSC is a small company especially next to a company like Mattel. Mattel gets huge discounts in shipping rates because of how many facilities they have and the amount of volume they produce worldwide on a daily basis. RSC is a 1 building operation that has 1 pickup and 1 delivery a day so they get charged a higher rate. LOL - considering there's ONE store in my city that sells elites and it's a toys r us and they couldn't care less - making 'friends' at a store is out of the question And RSC ships the figures in a few days THAT's why it's expensive (I've asked them and that's what THEY'VE said). IT doesn't matter how big they are, the whole point of picking a carrier is finding a good shipping price/rate. How do all the stores on ebay ship for 10$ when they're EVEN SMALLER than RSC? That makes no sense.
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Post by PJ on Oct 10, 2013 15:32:29 GMT -5
There are ways around it. I have to deal with the biggest scalper site out there on a daily basis, because T0y W!z sends people to both Targets, TRU and WalMart every morning at opening to cherry pick the aisles. But how do you beat them easy you make friends I have a handful of friends where we help each other out for cost and shipping. And I have made connections at the stores I go to that hold stuff for me when they see it come in. So there are ways around it. I have never fed a scalper. Nor will I. And yes if it wasn't something I wanted enough to preorder and I don't find it locally...and if one of my friends have no luck finding it for me either then yes I just don't get it. I am not going to feed a scalper when I have my own family to feed. I have 2 Kevin Nash figures and I didn't find either. One I got because I received a text from a KMart employee who took my information a few days earlier when I was looking for the cube. He text me at 7am saying he pulled a Nash off the cube for me so I went and picked it up that morning then that night the mailman dropped off a package from a friend in Buffalo who found one for me and just shipped it out to me before even telling me he found it for me. Yes living in Canada or outside the US probably sucks for collecting in terms of availability of items, but again there are ways. As for shipping there's no "markup" by RSC because they don't set their shipping rates. Shipping rates are determined by their carriers. Once RSC signed their contract with the shippers they are sent software with all the rates preprogrammed. RSC is a small company especially next to a company like Mattel. Mattel gets huge discounts in shipping rates because of how many facilities they have and the amount of volume they produce worldwide on a daily basis. RSC is a 1 building operation that has 1 pickup and 1 delivery a day so they get charged a higher rate. LOL - considering there's ONE store in my city that sells elites and it's a toys r us and they couldn't care less - making 'friends' at a store is out of the question And RSC ships the figures in a few days THAT's why it's expensive (I've asked them and that's what THEY'VE said). IT doesn't matter how big they are, the whole point of picking a carrier is finding a good shipping price/rate. How do all the stores on ebay ship for 10$ when they're EVEN SMALLER than RSC? That makes no sense. Trust me working at UPS for over 10 years I know for a fact the shipping company sets the shipping rates. God knows how many times I had to hear a small business ask me why their rates were so much higher than the company next to them. (which was usually a larger company with multiple facilities.) Yes, RSC charges more for certain figures to off set the cost of having their first shipment sent to them via air and to make up for the pegwarmers in the set nobody will buy until they are in one of RSC sales for under $4. But as far as what they charge you for shipping they have no control in that. Most of these scalpers on eBay don't have accounts with UPS, Fedex, USPS so they don't have daily scheduled deliveries/pickups. They go to the PO, UPS or a Mailbox etc and that is cheaper than having a driver go to your company twice on a daily basis. As for friends make friends with board members. Like I said between here and other sites there's a few people I help out on a regular basis and vise versa.
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hitman1072
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Post by hitman1072 on Oct 10, 2013 16:22:16 GMT -5
I guess I'm wondering why those who wanted Kane just didn't buy the figure from RSC when it was available. It's not like they were sold out in a day.
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