Times You've Gotten Scalped

I live in the UK and I'm very fortunate we don't have native Americans here. A very unfortunate practice for the scalpee. 😀.

Yeah I've heard it was a pain to get, I'm just glad I waited until it dipped a little and didn't get it at 200 bucks like it was sitting at last year

Maybe like $40-50 for silver and purple chase DiBiase is probably the most I overpaid for a Mattel. I have found practically everything I’ve ever needed at retail with the exception of that fig.

That Sarge sold out before I could even check out and I was refreshing the page waiting for it to go live. It was pretty much a scalper exclusive.

This is the craziest thing I ever did. I paid $300 for the first Mattel Elite Scale Ring in 2013. It was so irresponsible. The box was sealed, but had some bad wear and tear and the ring base was split on one edge. I don’t know if it was a manufacturing defect, got damaged in shipping to the retail store or to me or if someone fell on the box. It didn’t look like the ring box was resealed. But I kept it because it was the only sealed one I could find. I managed to close up the split pretty well with duct tape and the ring still holds up to this day. But it wasn’t worth $300. Why?

Because 3 months after I bought it Wicked Cool Toys unveiled the Authentic Scale Ring for like $60 or $80. And to make matters worse, Mattel’s online store suddenly started stocking the original Elite Scale Ring for $60 even though it was out of stock for 2 or 3 years at that point. Yeah, I bought another one. So I ended up with 2 original Mattel Elite Scale Rings. A pristine one I paid $60 for and a busted up one I paid $300 for. I’m glad I have an extra, but I could’ve bought 2 for $120 from Mattel. But I didn’t know Mattel would magically find extra stock. I didn’t know Wicked Cool Toys existed and was about to start making scale rings.

If it's worth it to you, I wouldn't consider it being scalped. I paid $80 for the Ultimate Edition RA RVD. It was worth it because I never saw him in stores. I paid $60 or $70 for Elite 48 Cactus Jack. Again, worth it. And for the record, I'm not a scalper. The only time I've sold figures is when I regrettably sold my collection, twice. Took a loss both times.

I recently paid 70 bucks just for Hawk with a missing gauntlet. Still looking for Animal for less than 150 bucks

Other than poorly anticipating how easy a figure would be to obtain and impulsively preordering on RSC, the most I've spent on a single figure was $75 shipped for an AEW Unrivaled 6 Jericho Chase. Otherwise I've either found everything I wanted, or went without. The only thing I feel I've really missed on was the RA Elite Bischoff. Harley and John Nada were up there, but both got rereleased and I found both of them at retail.

Classic response. Just bringing the matches hoping to start the fire... How is this not considered trolling?

Anyway, to give a productive response, I would say anything that is exclusive to Walmart. I purchased almost every Ruthless Aggression elite from Paul Mart. I luckily found 4 in person, but the rest were online exclusives to me.