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10-11-2007, 08:51 PM | #41 |
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Originally Posted by Gulfster
How have I NOT respected his views or ideas???
No one was named. Gentlemen = Plural G.Hawk...I understand and can relate to your view. I keep missing product here. Did anyone try pm'ing Rain and asking if he would be willing to share his good luck? Possibly he can part with a set of the wave. Might be worth a shot G.Hawk...for what you would of spent in gas, you may end up paying less in postage.
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10-11-2007, 08:51 PM | #42 |
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Well, I am guessing to the average only one per character (except for the army builders maybe) collector, it is pretty annoying to read that a guy bought 4 of every figure. Face it, these figures are so hard to find that it definitely seems greedy to do this. But, it is his money and he can do whatever he pleases to with his hard-earned money. Most of us would probably only buy 1 of each and leave the rest for others. I never buy multiples unless it's an army builder type soldier anyways. I guess it's good that this stuff is flying off the shelves, but it's bad when 1 guy completely wipes out a store's inventory all by himself. Yeah, I'm envious and yes I wish I could find these figures myself. Oh, and yes I wish everybody would be mindful of other collectors out there. But this is reality - most people could give a damn about anybody else and that's why I think this guy's "score" bothered me a lot.
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10-11-2007, 09:03 PM | #43 |
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Gulfster, how could I be trying to get in the last word when I posed several honest questions? All of which you appear to be avoiding, BTW.
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Sounds like your the kind of guy that feels he needs to get the last word in ,so go ahead and reply to this and be happy.Some will get what I was trying to say to begin with ,others won't.
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You feel like you need to crusade
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My girlfriend would only have took one of everything and left the rest for others.
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So your little remark about others being able to yell at her for taking a set makes no sense.
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So pertaining to the original thread CONGRATS RAINMK!!
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10-11-2007, 09:07 PM | #44 |
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jacoby, i would hate to get into a debate with you!
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10-11-2007, 09:11 PM | #45 |
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We've been doing pretty good here, let's try to calm down a little bit though. They are toys and christmas is coming up after all. There will probably be more than enough hitting stores come next month or so.
Congrats on having an awesome girlfriend Rainmk |
10-11-2007, 09:17 PM | #46 |
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RIGHT ON! hit two walmarts today and found, at one, one zartan and one red ninja....and the other walmart had one of each of wave three!
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10-11-2007, 09:47 PM | #47 |
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I picked up two cases of the wave 3 as well at Wal-Mart. I think it was pure luck to be there at the right time and place. If only more of that occur often.
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10-11-2007, 09:48 PM | #48 |
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If he did not buy them up like that or his Girl, somebody else would have just the same. I'm glad a fan got them and not a scalper. These do not last for more then a few hours on the shelf, everybody is looking for them. If you want to blame somebody for the lack of figures on the east coast call up wal-mart and see how far that gets you, they just do not care. It sucks that we need to wait so long to get our Joes. I went on a mission today to find mine.
Out of 8 wal-marts = Nothing 4 Toys "R" Us = 1 set of wave 2 6 Targets = 1 set of wave 3 Just drop the back and forth Ish talking so we do not need to lock the thread.
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10-11-2007, 10:23 PM | #49 |
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Well, I've got my own, personal success story yesterday that might lighten the mood a bit. I went to 2 Targets and 2 Wal-Marts, and, of course nothing. In fact, the Wal-Mart woman said the following when I finally asked why there weren't even pegs, and I paraphrase:
"Our toy manager must have deleted the Joes out of our system. Maybe you can find some left in the clearance section." She clearly knew what was going on. . .anyway, despite all that, guess what I did find?. . .that's right. . .SNAKES ON A TRAIN! For only 4 bucks at Big Lots! Heavenly bliss! Haven't seen it yet, but man, that snake on the cover is HUGE! Suffice it to say, this made up for my earlier disappointment. And then I found a guy only charging 10 bucks per wave 3 Joe on the Bay, so I bought Zartan and Firefly that way, canceled by supposed "preorder" with BBTS, and dealt with it. |
10-11-2007, 11:11 PM | #50 |
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Let me set the record straight my GI Joe brothers and sisters. I see a lot of heated arguments arising from what I did. I'm the farthest thing from a scalper you can imagine. You can whip some ridiculous price out at me like $40.00 for a Zartan etc and guess what, I wont sell it. Check me out on Ebay at Loyal_to_Cobra, you wont see me trying to sell these waves like a true scalper would, im different, im actually a fan. It' s worth a lot more to me than making a couple quick bucks. I grew up on collecting these with my brother and was fortunate enough to have a mother and father that constantly took me to the toy store to buy me new ones. I even have a Cobra tattoo because that's how much I loved the GI Joe figure line etc.
So what, I bought multiples of non army builders. I also bought a Gold headed Destro AFA graded 90 just because I wanted to have it for $200.. when in all reality it cost what..?? $10.00 tops at the convention. I'm not bitching, thats what I was willing to pay for it. The point is I am not one to turn around and sell these to make money, they are going to a good cause, a collector that will cherish them, display them, keep them for memories etc. The point of post here was to tell you guys to look out, to get them at retail in example Walmart for $4.88 - not to brag and have some people label me as greedy etc. As for my girl, all she had to do was see them to buy them all up, it was going to happen without me even telling her to. This is because she knows how much love I have for GI Joe, especially this 25th line. I hope I didnt offend anyone, your day will come when you see multiples, grab them if you want its your right. It just happened to be that I thought I would never even get most of them in my stores and that I would have to Ebay a lot of them, but I got lucky and my gf spotted them. Thats all there really is to it. I dont even have 1 multiple or even a set for wave 2, my area has either been really dry or they are bought up quickly, all i have are 4 figures from it so trust me I have been on the same boat as you up until today. Also thank you Destro, Obiwanjacoby, Shogi and all others that support me in this. It comforts me to know that some people don't see it as greedy and that some of us are on the same level when we talk about this. Last edited by RainMK; 10-11-2007 at 11:41 PM.. |
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