12-19-2007, 08:36 PM
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| | Mostachioed Jungle Guy Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 247 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by C.I.A.D. Seems as though the East Coast is seeing nice distribution on the CPs. Kinda sucks being in the middle of the country, everything gets here LATE. lol.
No luck at TRU again today...but so help me God, if someone shoulderblocks me again, I'm going to show them things a tickle me elmo shouldn't be used for.  |
actually it sucks being on the east coast, where I am in NJ I sometimes don't see new waves until near a month or more after theyre released | 
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12-19-2007, 09:28 PM
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| | Harvester Of Souls Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 15 | I'm in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle and I can pretty much guarantee a wasted trip every morning when I wake up at 6 AM to get to the local Walmart. Full pegs for everything BUT the 25th Anniversary. I still go though....I have lucked out a few times, but more wasted trips than anything. I wish I could walk in and see an endcap full of Joes.
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12-19-2007, 11:15 PM
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| | Crimson Guard Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 2,142 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by REAPER187 I'm in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle and I can pretty much guarantee a wasted trip every morning when I wake up at 6 AM to get to the local Walmart. Full pegs for everything BUT the 25th Anniversary. I still go though....I have lucked out a few times, but more wasted trips than anything. I wish I could walk in and see an endcap full of Joes. | where you at, up north or down south?
__________________ My 25th Most Wanted List: 1. Tunnel Rat <-CHECK! 2. General Hawk (v2)<-CHECK! 3. Leatherneck <-CHECK(kinda...)
4. Jinx 5. Dusty<-CHECK! 6. Snow Serpent<-CHECK!
7. Tele-Viper<-CHECK(kinda...) 8. Falcon<-CHECK (kinda...) 9. Footloose 10. Recondo <-CHECK!  | |
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12-19-2007, 11:59 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 247 | man, i went to TRU this morning to grab a set, as i SAW the friggin manifest with them listed on it the other night. i go today,and they tell me that they were NEVEr on the truck...pisses me off that my guess is an employee took the WHOLE CASE!!!! a friggin hour drive for NOTHING......I was so mad my wife thought i was going to have a heart attack.... | |
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12-20-2007, 01:50 PM
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| | is invisible to radar Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Richmond, Virginia Posts: 1,393 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DESTRO Duke-CC-653569284246
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I found them today at the New Jersey (South) Cherry Hill TRU. They had 2 cases. | I called my local TRU to ask about these and they told me I needed the "Item number" which is apparently "above" this one. Anybody have those and would mind posting this for us? Thanks!
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12-20-2007, 04:20 PM
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| | One-man army Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Killa Cali Los Angeles, home of tha scandalous Posts: 380 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by thunderdan19 I called my local TRU to ask about these and they told me I needed the "Item number" which is apparently "above" this one. Anybody have those and would mind posting this for us? Thanks! | They lied to you. All they need is the UPC. | |
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12-20-2007, 04:42 PM
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| | This movie's gonna SUCK.. Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Springfield Posts: 2,436 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by REAPER187 I'm in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle and I can pretty much guarantee a wasted trip every morning when I wake up at 6 AM to get to the local Walmart. Full pegs for everything BUT the 25th Anniversary. I still go though....I have lucked out a few times, but more wasted trips than anything. I wish I could walk in and see an endcap full of Joes. | I'm in the Puyallup area... and ditto. | |
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12-20-2007, 05:30 PM
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| | is invisible to radar Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Richmond, Virginia Posts: 1,393 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cataclizm1 They lied to you. All they need is the UPC. | Typical for TRU (at least mine): Employees that don't know squat about anything; Cluttered shelves with way overpriced old stuff (like old Viper packs and old Lady Jaye and Oktober Guard comic packs) sitting around until the packages are banged up and nearly falling apart because no one wants to pay over $25 for them (how about a clearance or something?); Large stockpiles of the now defunct Sigma 6; Loads of Cobra 5 packs for $30 sitting on the shelf because you can get them on Amazon and Walmart.com for less than $15; Wave 2 & 3 figures on 3 pegs with $11.99 (duh!) marked above them so no one will buy them except those smart enough to run to the price reader and see that they are actually $5.99. C'mon, what a joke!
My opinion is that TRU has completely missed the 2007 Christmas boat for GI Joe because of things like this. I'm pretty sure they were the first place to release 25th GI Joe here in Richmond, but somehow they missed getting enough stock to hope to compete w/ WM. TRU was almost completely absent of 25th GI Joe for nearly 2 months while Walmart and Target stocked up and sold themselves practically out of them, taking practically the entire market share here for that time period, at least here.
Maybe, just maybe, TRU is starting to get smart and realizing that GI Joe is actually getting popular again for REAL this time, and trying to get back ahead with the next round of releases. But I have yet to see the fruits of that. Where my 25th Comic Packs at???
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12-20-2007, 05:53 PM
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| | Cobra Soldier Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 53 | Hey bro, I was living in VaBeach when they were released, so I feel you!
Boxed sets hit, and then....
Nothing.
I was lucky to find Wave I while they were puting them off the truck at a KB one morning! | |
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12-20-2007, 06:20 PM
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| | is invisible to radar Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Richmond, Virginia Posts: 1,393 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Big Country Hey bro, I was living in VaBeach when they were released, so I feel you!
Boxed sets hit, and then....
Nothing.
I was lucky to find Wave I while they were puting them off the truck at a KB one morning! | Ouch. I'll bet you paid dearly for those, what are they $6.99 at KBToys? No wonder ours here are all going out of business... yay, 30% off stuff! (which is actually market prices finally). They truly are the only ones worse than TRU for overpriced junk. But at least you got them. I bought at least one or two at KayBee myself (until I realized all I had to do was be a little bit patient, and show up at Walmart at 11PM on Friday night).
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