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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2014 22:17:41 GMT -5
So after striking out yesterday, I headed back to a store that showed 40. The day before the employees didn't want to go looking in the back for me, and said to check back today. Well, once again gave an employee the dcpi number, and his gun showed the same qty, and even came up as wwe elite hall of fame. He walks me over to the toy aisle where a bunch of elite 32 are. He claims that this is them, to which I show him a picture on ebay of what I'm actually looking for. He tells me that it must be a mistake in their system and that they're showing up as the same product. In other words, no HOF figures. So...I left with zip. At this point, I don't know if he was feeding me BS, or if it was true because it looked close to 40 pcs. I'm at the point where I'll either check stores when I get a chance, or just cave on one on the bay once I can get a reasonable price. I mainly want slaughter, though warrior and Austin are tempting. Yeah they're full of shit.... elite 32 DPCI does not match HOF DPCI... That employee failed to complete the task of customer service, or in other words... His job
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Post by popyduggan on Dec 28, 2014 22:20:02 GMT -5
Well, I went on vacation and my local scalper cleaned out every store in a ten mile radius according to the tracker. I can't believe people paid this pr*ck $160 and $140 for a set of 4, also $50 each for a Slaughter, Warrior, and Austin. I wish he'd go out of business, but evidently suckers won't let him.
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Post by Nivro™ on Dec 28, 2014 22:39:00 GMT -5
I havent read the entire thread but Ill shed some light on the reasoning why people are finding them "In Stock" in stores yet are not finding them in their store....
Every year after Christmas Target resets the toy section. They get bulk load of toys on trucks and since the aisle isnt set, these toys need to be backstocked. As the toys come off the truck they're scanned with a gun, which is why it shows that your store has them in stock. However, because there is no place to stock them on the shelves AND there is so much bulk, Target takes these toys and bulk stacks them on pallets, shrink wraps them and then puts them up on a top shelf (a good 15-20 feet usually) in the back room. Because there is multiple toys on a pallet, there is no way to scan these toys into the backroom. Therefore the toys are in fact in the store but they're not on the shelf nor are they scanned into a backstock location so employees cant find them. Now most employees know that they're probably on a toy pallet however, depending on the size of your target it could be anywhere between 3 and 10 pallets of toys. Target employees, especially ones that work on the floor, are simply just not going to pull down a bunch of pallets and look through things. There's multiple reasons for this. 1)To work the pallet lift in the back, Target has to certify you. Most of your floor employees arent certified therefore they would have to get a backroom employee or a manager to do it. 2)Because they're on the floor they probably already have a list of things they have to do in their section. Yes I know that customer service is something they need to do but they also dont have an hour or more to go through a bunch of pallets for a box of toys. Now if you happen to know someone at the store (like myself since I use to be a toy team lead there years ago) you can sweet talk someone into taking the time to do it for you but for most people, unless the truck team let the box slip by and the backroom team backstocked it or it was put on the floor...Its highly unlikely you're gonna get someone to find them on that pallet for you.
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Post by thefranchise2013 on Dec 28, 2014 23:15:01 GMT -5
Good news. I checked another store today who also had them somewhere in the back, but the employee who helped me was super nice and called ahead to another store for me. They had already put them out in the store on pegs, but they asked him who I wanted. I told them there are four different figures in the set and that I'd like to get one of each.
Lo and behold they pulled them for me and put them at customer service to pick up! VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and just for giggles I went back to the aisle to see who was left on the pegs. there were two more warriors and a stone cold. So despite my failures from yesterday I was able to grab everyone today. I felt vindicated. lol.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 4:58:48 GMT -5
Yesterday morning's haul. PJ don't look below. The updated bottom half of the tower.
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Post by theaxehennig on Dec 29, 2014 7:26:58 GMT -5
This inventory checker is awesome! Thank you, OP! Karma to you! LOL!
It was very helpful to have the DPCI, because it could be typed into the price scanner, in stores. This avoided the "all we have is what we have out" BS!
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Post by PJ on Dec 29, 2014 8:07:47 GMT -5
Yesterday morning's haul. PJ don't look below. The updated bottom half of the tower. You're Killing me! Damn Lego Batman 3. If only I heard his text yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 8:20:16 GMT -5
You're Killing me! Damn Lego Batman 3. If only I heard his text yesterday. Hopefully the blonde Warrior BP helps to make up for it.
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Post by FBtagteamsrule on Dec 29, 2014 8:40:39 GMT -5
thanx for the info. helped me get sarge, scsa, and warrior. mite pick up trish later.
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Post by PJ on Dec 29, 2014 9:24:19 GMT -5
You're Killing me! Damn Lego Batman 3. If only I heard his text yesterday. Hopefully the blonde Warrior BP helps to make up for it. Not totally, but it helps.
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Post by Hulk Who? on Dec 29, 2014 9:35:27 GMT -5
Just picked up Warrior, Slaughter and Austin. I definitely wouldn't have found them without the DPCI and tracker so thanks a lot, What? And the site def works, it shows they have 3 less now. They weren't on shelves, I punched the # into the price checker, and they brought the case out no problem, once they woke up the backroom. Last I saw the remainder of that case is sitting in the WWE aisle of Target in Harlem for anyone in NYC. I think they only had that one case though.
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Post by deskjet on Dec 29, 2014 9:44:49 GMT -5
Walked in and found all figs in two stores yesterday. Have some patience people.
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Post by The Madness on Dec 29, 2014 10:13:33 GMT -5
It took getting three employees to help, but I finally got them to pull the box from the back and was able to purchase the whole set.
Big thanks to the OP and this tracker, which definitely works!
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Post by jacguitarist on Dec 29, 2014 11:02:41 GMT -5
It's so odd, I called two stores today that are showing they have them via the tracker but after lengthy holds on the phone, the employees come back and say that they aren't the hall of fame figures...they're just regular elites, and that they don't have them.
This is the same thing I posted last night after actually visiting a store...they keep claiming that the #087-06-2061 relates to all elites in general. I know this isn't true, but I'm beginning to wonder if there's some kind of mix up with their inventory?
I kinda doubt it though, because just for the heck of it, I grabbed a random elite dcpi number off of their site, which was #087-06-1160, entered it into the tracker as well, and it gives me totally different quantities than the HOF dcpi.
My guess is that employees are just walking over, seeing the wrestlers in the aisle and just leaving it at that. No, sorry, we don't have Sgt. Slaughter. Bye.
Fortunately, I DID just find a store within 35 minutes away that claims they DO have them. The customer service rep even said that the manager would allow them to be pulled from the back and held up front for me, so that's reassuring.
I tried to see if they would hold specific ones (Slaughter, Austin, Warrior) but I think she was mistaken because she was trying to tell me that the dcpi number relates to a specific character, meaning, each figure would have it's own number. Sure, they have their own UPC but I know the dcpi is for all of the HOF figures. So...I have no idea what will be waiting for me behind customer service. Hopefully they'll just pull a whole set for me and I can grab the 3 I want, or worst case if there's only one back there they can pull the others.
...or worse worst case scenario, I go and find a case of elite 32 haunting me...
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Post by Nivro™ on Dec 29, 2014 12:33:24 GMT -5
jacguitarist I can almost bet they're walking back and seeing the regular elite figures and saying its them. Chances are people that work the floor dont know there are pallets of toys (as I explained above) bulk stocked in the backroom. Only Backroom team, Planogram team and your Toy Team lead will know they're back there.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 12:45:52 GMT -5
Just checked again. Still nothing within 200 miles of me. Sad face.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 12:48:42 GMT -5
Just found the mother load.
Walked in and found the entire set and multiple of each.
Walked out with Austin and Warrior
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 12:56:09 GMT -5
My friend found me Trish's figure and is shipping me her for free. ^_^ yay!
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Post by Hulk Who? on Dec 29, 2014 12:56:22 GMT -5
Just checked again. Still nothing within 200 miles of me. Sad face. Was the same for me, but yesterday they started appearing in every location around me, they should show up soon.
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Post by Hulk Who? on Dec 29, 2014 13:00:30 GMT -5
BTW What? deserves some sort of gift from everyone for helping us find these. Not sure how to make that happen, but he deserves it!
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