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Originally Posted by evil_henchmen
This was more luck than anything else really. I was at the in-laws this weekend and they have 2 Wal-Marts and a Target within 5 miles and i went to all 3 and found 3 Shredders and a bunch of other stuff. I can care less if you want to call me a scalper, everyone does this and the only people who whine about it are the people who sit in front of the computer all day and don't get out to find the toys they want. You just need to realize that the HTF toys your looking for aren't going to magically appear on your doorsteps.
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Everyone does not do this. First thing, don't generalize people as everyone. "Some people do this" is a better read. By using everyone, those like myself, that don't do this, get ticked off seeing someone force a label on us that is not true. I have a Quarry MIP. I could so sell her on ebay but I'd rather do a trade with Roseangelo or someone who needs her for something I need or want. I picked Quarry up, for a friend, and was only going to charge the price of the figure at the KayBee where I found her. Mind you, I watched that Quarry sit on the shelves for 3 months. I know it was at least three months because it was at the KayBee by my college and I went home for the summer. When college started up again, the same figures were still there.
Also, I think a good portion of the forum users sit in front of the computer all day and don't get the toys they want. Some of us sit in front because of our jobs. Some of us because of school. Some of us because of unemployment or a day off. Some of us because we are too young to have a job. Etc. Bad idea to basically say "people that sit on the computer all day whine all day." You're now insulting possibly three quarters of the users here.
I worked at Target in the toy section. I know that HTF figures aren't going to pop up every time you want them. My brother collects GIJoe, WWE, Marvel Legends, and DC Direct. We also give each other our "wish lists" of figures that we are looking for and help each other find figures. There were Marvel Legends figures that we spent years looking for and refusing to pay the insane ebay prices for for a Marvel exclusive AoA Wolverine. Why? Because the $7 figure was not worth the $30. Eventually he got lucky and found another collector to trade with.
My coworkers at Target still look for the figures I am after from the TMNT line. I get a phone call from Mike asking me if I need anything and he tells me what Star Wars figures he is looking for. We don't have the advantage of getting what we want before you do. Unless we hide that Quarry deep into the furniture sections. Kids would find what we hid before we could or our managers would find them. We weren't allowed to keep stuff for ourselves. Yet every Thursday morning, we'd get a mess of people do a mad dash at 8:00 AM straight to the toy section to get their HTF figures or cars. We could tell the collectors and we could tell the scalpers. We'd help the collectors a lot more than the scalpers.
So in other words, don't call us whiners, hypocrites, and say all we do is sit online and bitch. I rarely spend my free time online. Only when at work or when it is too hot to do anything.
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Originally Posted by Roseangelo
I'll keep watch, too. Although since I have WalMart sending them to me, I won't be looking too actively. But every trip into WalMart or Target for anything requires a walk down the action figure aisle.  |
Same here! Mine should be coming this week.
