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03-08-2011, 04:05 PM | #11 |
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It's done to control the scalper population. A scalper can hardly make any profit on a non-MOC toy thus, they'll leave it there.
Buck up. Be happy. If you actually needed those figs to open, they would have been there waiting for you. I'd love it if someone started folding up all the Shock Troop cards in stores around here. But its hard to say what happened here. If all of the figures were damaged in the same way, it could have been a bad case or how they were taken out of the case and put on the pegs.
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03-08-2011, 04:07 PM | #12 |
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I really hope they do her in the action figure line. But I digress. I've actually become much less OCD about what I collect carded, like with the current Star Wars Vintage-style line. I'm not getting them for "value", I'm getting them 'cause I think the cards are attractive so it doesn't matter if there's a dent here, a scratch there, creases, et Peter Cetera. It's very liberating.
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03-08-2011, 04:11 PM | #13 |
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It's done to control the scalper population. A scalper can hardly make any profit on a non-MOC toy thus, they'll leave it there.
Buck up. Be happy. If you actually needed those figs to open, they would have been there waiting for you. I'd love it if someone started folding up all the Shock Troop cards in stores around here. And an illegal act of vandalism. You are not the scalper police, no matter how important you think you are. |
03-08-2011, 04:14 PM | #14 |
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See? ;)
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03-08-2011, 04:15 PM | #15 |
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sorry about that
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03-08-2011, 04:15 PM | #16 |
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If it's to stop scalpers, I think it's brilliant!
I like to keep a single card because I like the art, but the other 40-odd figs don't need a card- they just need to stand in formation and prepare to take over the world |
03-08-2011, 04:18 PM | #17 |
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You caught me: I didn't take my meds today. ;)
I just think that's bullshit to sit there and make decisions for future paying customers. If it was my store, I'd be pissed. This is the first Joe line in a couple of years where I have been keeping a set carded, because I like the card art quite a bit. I don't need them pristine by any means, but a big old crease or tear sucks. And, again, it's not yours to fold. Which is really the only germaine point in the "should we/should we not" damage action figure/Hot Wheels cards discussion. |
03-08-2011, 04:18 PM | #18 |
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what i find funny is you actually found them at walmart lol most of my walmarts stopped selling joes a while back and 1 actually had some but its wittled down to two figures
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03-08-2011, 04:22 PM | #19 |
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A might also add that maybe bending corners also holds the figure and discourages parents from buying them. I know that if I was buying a figure as a gift or whatever I wouldn't want to give a damaged package. |
03-08-2011, 04:24 PM | #20 |
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I'm going to get in trouble one day for vandalizing action figures in a store.
I keep a black Sharpie with me and when I encounter the handiwork of the local repacker, I write on the package DO NOT BUY STUFF STOLEN OUT OF THIS. THAT seems to get it removed from the shelves. I've taken the stuff to customer service at different stores on a number of occasions and explained to them what had happened and only at Target did the items NOT find their way back to the action figure aisle in the same condition. So I changed tactics.
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