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01-28-2009, 04:02 PM | #1 |
Mighty Puundragon
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Scammers is SOOOO Crazy.
I braved the snow storm to mail out a trade on lunch and stopped at a nearby Goodwill. The local Goodwills get all of Target's skanky returns. As I was leaving I saw 2, 25th DVD packs. They were $4.99 each for Serpentor Rising and The Pyramid of Darkness packs. They were obvious repacks from some scammer. Here is what was included: Serpentor Rising 1. Bat - Looks complete 2. Montazuma's Skeleton - Looks Complete 3. Heavy Duty v3 1998 - Heat Viper v2 Rifle (I think???) 4. Law v4 2000 The Pyramid of Darkness 1. Cobra Commander - Looks complete 2. Snake Eyes v8 1997 3. Major Bludd Super Sonic Fighters 1991 4. Slice v1 1992 These were the funniest things I have seen in awhile. The figures in the packs actually spanned 17 years. But for $10 they had both MASS device pieces and it looks like both DVD's are included. I didn't have time to open them to verify what exactly was in it, so who knows if the DVD's are even in the cases. There were only 3 figures out of 8 that actually belonged in the packs. They were worth the money just for the trade pieces. I will take pics tonight and post them if you want to see. ------------------------------------------------------ OK so I am home from work and opened them before I had to shovel a foot of snow from my driveway. I took a minute to look the package over and there was hair in the tape. The person appeared to make no extra effort to hide that this was opened. This was goofier than I first thought. Here's what I discovered. 1) DVD cases were in the packs but the DVD's were gone. a) Pyramid of Darkness DVD was replaced with a blank CDR. b) Rise of Serpentor DVD was replaced with an actual burnt copy of the DVD. WTF??? 2) The Heat Viper Rifle has a bent tip and is dirty. 3) There were no stands with the figures. 4) Bat was the only complete figure with Filecard 5) Both pieces of the mass device were included. If you look at the picks they look like they were packed by different guys trying to see which could do the better job. In the Serpentor pack everything was nicely taped in except his cannon. The Pyramid pack had 2 figs flopping around. The person who made the Serpentor pack actually took the time to burn the DVD (That is weird and kind of nice in a sick way.) But if this is the same guy why put a blank CD-R in the Pyramid case. Overall very happy with this strange repack. I am only interested in keeping Heavy Duty, Bat, Montazuma's Skeleton, burnt DVD and MASS Device pieces. All the rest are up for trade. As others have said report this when you see it. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean some 8 year old isn't going to spend his B-day money and get screwed. Plus Grandma doesn't now the difference as a Christmas present. Last edited by Puundragon; 01-28-2009 at 08:43 PM.. |
01-28-2009, 04:06 PM | #2 |
"The Mayor"
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I wish I could find something cool like that at good will (even if I dispise the jack assery that is repacking).
Pics please
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01-28-2009, 05:14 PM | #3 |
Serpentor Imposter
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I would like to see some pictures of that too!
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01-28-2009, 05:16 PM | #4 |
Win, Lose or Die
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Location: Canton, Michigan
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That's pretty funny. Good price on that as well. The MASS device is pretty cool.
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01-28-2009, 05:21 PM | #5 |
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awesome i need that V1 Slice!
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01-28-2009, 05:21 PM | #6 |
SON OF A MAD MAN
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Location: NEW YORK
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I HAVE SEEN REPACKS WERE EVERYTHING IS GONE AND REPLACED WITH CRAP. A LOT OF COMIC PACKS WITH BOTH FIGURES SWITCHED WITH VvsV FIGS AND A FEW HAD TRANSFORMERS COMIC BOOK IN THERE TOO.
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01-28-2009, 05:24 PM | #7 |
I WILL BITE YOUR FINGERS!
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ha...thats awesome... i would mind finding a re pack w some oldies in it...
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01-28-2009, 05:30 PM | #8 |
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here in INDY!!!! i am shocked.....not really
surrounded by scammers and scalpers, im suprised we dont find more....totally worth $10 though
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01-28-2009, 05:32 PM | #9 |
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Location: Kennesaw, GA
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I found a battle pack that had the mass device replaced by a piece of cardboard at WM. One of the figures was replaced with an original dr mindbender another by a craptastic no o ring CC VvV.
I took it to the return place and told them, they offered to sell it to me for 10 bucks, I wasnt interested. Report these if you see em because then they will be more careful when they get returns.
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01-28-2009, 05:36 PM | #10 |
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The really sucky thing about seeing those returns is that those are old joes so that means whoever stole them was a collector not only that they are at least 28 years old.... that is just weird to me a 28 year old man stealing toys..... To think that someone who has been buying a certain toy since 1985 steals them now.... really makes me feel like the collecting scene is going down hill.
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