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10-10-2013, 04:55 PM
CrimsonGuard101
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True. I brought him a tub of old stuff myself and also got low balled. He took the tub in the back and when I took his offer anyway (they were items I really cared less about even though I could have sold them myself for way more) he didn't follow my initial request to get my tub back. I told him at the beginning I wanted my tub back with the smaller (IKEA) tubs inside it back as well, he only brought out the big tub when we were finishing the deal. I reminded him of the smaller tubs and he did go back and get them but he said he didn't remember seeing them. Honest mistake is possible, but with this other stuff we are discussing, it just makes me wonder a little more.
He also has "minions" that go buy new hot items from local retail and he buys the items from them for a small mark-up (so the minion gets a miniscule profit) and then re-sells them for DOUBLE that of retail. The stupid part is that people are ACTUALLY PAYING those prices! He said it is a service he provides so folks don't have to run around everywhere to get the new hot stuff. I call it scalping. TF Masterpiece Soundwave and TF Metroplex are current examples of the new hot items I am referring to.
But, to tell MORE of the story, he does open one or 2 of each of those he gets and plays with them in the store and shows off how cool they are. For those, I have seen him sell those for less than the above-retail price he paid. You get a good deal if you are an opener, but the chances of being the one guy that gets that deal are slim.
Granted, I am not above admitting I once was a scalper, but I since dropped that part of my practice (when I do get time to do shows anymore) as the negativity it breeds caused lower sales on the rest of my stuff as a whole.
Bottom line, if DFW Vintage toys takes better care of the stuff he is offered, and drops the horrid scalping practices, I think he'll be here a long time and do very well. BUT he does need a good logo and a MUCH better location. The building he's in now is mico sized for what he has and it's located in an industrial area where you couldn't find it without your GPS or Google Maps app on your smart phone.
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I still don't like Dallas Vintage Toys. Shaun has screwed so many of the Star Wars fandom in the past, that "tiger" has a long way to go to prove he's changed his stripes (to paraphrase the old saying).
Dirty cons and dirty con jobs!
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