|
|
Post by Texas Dude on Jun 17, 2005 22:35:37 GMT -5
Well I was happy to find the new wave of ROTS figures yesterday with Commander Bacara, R2-D2, and Battle Damage Mustafar Anakin. Okay so after I picked out a Bacara, some guy comes rummaged through and takes the rest of the Bacara,R2s and ALL OF THE ANAKINS! I was soo pissed because I wanted an Anakin. Probably going to sell them on Ebay. Anyways He left the place a mess and I helped the Employee clean it up. So have you ever came across a person like this?
|
|
|
|
Post by Parchandri on Jun 18, 2005 6:38:35 GMT -5
What a dick. I'm sure if you would have told an employee they would have taken one from him and gave it to you. Nothing like that has ever happened to me, but I've heard many a tale about similar happenings.
|
|
|
|
Post by wordlifev2 on Jun 18, 2005 8:33:42 GMT -5
Heh, It's the usual scalpers, trying to make a quick buck, with the new figures. I wouldn't worry too much, soon enough they'll lose all novelty of being new figures, and will warm the peg for a while. I've never seen a scalper in action, but then again I don't go looking for star wars figures. The #6 and #41 clones are hot product for the scalpers, in fact any cone at all, as army builders want them.
Anyway congrats on the Bacara, he looks pretty sweet, but the stories of articulation or its lack of put me off it. I personally think that anakin is pure crap, and the non-burnt head looks really fat and white
Mace 'WORDLIFE' Windu
|
|
|
|
Post by Sam Hain on Jun 18, 2005 16:01:22 GMT -5
Same thing happened to me when I was looking for Anakin. Damn horders!
|
|
|
|
Post by brm on Jun 18, 2005 16:10:46 GMT -5
Pretty funny story.
I was in KB, and, I was looking at the new Tick figures. (this was in 1995, and they were the Tick cartoon figs.)
I saw an Arthur figure, so, in my excitement, I went to get my mom and tell her. I bring her back to see it, and it was gone. I was looking for it, and I saw a 40 year old guy with it. I went and grabbed it from him, and we had a little tug o war in the middle of KB. My mom made me give it back to him though.
Next week I found it and alot more figs though.
|
|
|
|
Post by HHH316 on Jun 19, 2005 0:39:50 GMT -5
Yes I used to see people like this all the time. I used to work at a KB toys & we got familiar with the people who were collectors. They knew our truck schedule & everything which is sad. If I knew we had something in the back, I wouldnt give it to them, beacuse they were just going to put it up on ebay or something
|
|
|
|
Post by kareem on Jun 19, 2005 1:08:48 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I run into Hot Wheels and Marvel Legends scalpers all the time. If they're too stupid to realize that they'd make more money at an actual job, instead of hitting stores all day, I can only laugh at them.
|
|
Mr. Aqua Teen
POSSIBLE BAD TRADER
10 refs; WF's Resident Punk Rocker
Joined on: Mar 3, 2004 18:32:09 GMT -5
Posts: 1,943
|
Post by Mr. Aqua Teen on Jun 19, 2005 19:20:46 GMT -5
ya that happened to me yesterday.i went to walmart looking for some clones.when i got there there was a guy and his kid ripping, literally ripping through the sw figs.the guy said to his kid:"ok grab all of these" which happened to be the SA clone.i left and came back a couple minutes later and the guys cart was half full of every clone they had.commanders,pilots, SA, quick draw. so i tried to pick a SA clone out of his cart and he looked up and said: "hey what the hell u doin man?" i said:"it looks like u got enough here, save some for others, its called SHARING".then the prick got an associate and surprisingly the associate told me to give him back the clone and go to a diff section.i went back like 5 mins later and the place was a mess.figs ALL over the floor and some packages were stepped on and ripped...gah.it made me sick.
|
|
|
|
Post by Suckasays on Jun 19, 2005 20:38:18 GMT -5
My fiance used to work at the Wal Mart toy department. She used to complain about those dickheads on a nightly basis.
|
|
|
|
Post by Kanenite on Jun 22, 2005 12:58:56 GMT -5
Before, I went looking for WWE figures. I found (at the time) AD2 Rey/Matt Hardy, and this other guy was literally throwing figures off the shelves and rumaging through them to find other figures. Aqua, that guy sounds like he was building an army  |
|
Squirrel Lips
Main Eventer
Joined on: Mar 25, 2004 22:51:09 GMT -5
Posts: 1,868
|
Post by Squirrel Lips on Jul 6, 2005 16:44:16 GMT -5
I work in retail (K-Mart) and I see this happen all the time, not only with figures, but with other pointless stuff. I can't get mad at people like that though, they have a right to buy as many of whatever they want, people always complain about this, geez just get out of bed a little earlier and get to the store before those people do, that can solve it quick!  |
|
