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07-26-2008, 07:04 PM | #61 |
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When the Target exclusices were out, I almost bought an original A.W.E because some jerk re-packaged it.
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07-26-2008, 07:07 PM | #62 |
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I think it's pathetic that a grown adult will do that just over a toy. Unfortunately I've seen it, thankfully only once, when I went to TRU last weekend and someone had switched Steeler with a 25th Duke in the Armadillo vs Serpentor's Chariot pack. If I didn't notice it I probably would have ended up buying it.
Stuff like that makes me want to work in returns at a store where someone does that so I can catch them in the act. Even if the store does nothing it'd be fun to at least delay or frustrate the jerk.
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07-26-2008, 07:09 PM | #63 |
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Damn, sounds like you got a serial re-packer in your area.
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07-26-2008, 11:32 PM | #64 |
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as reported in another thread (Illegal Customizers) its no doubt the same dude screwin with the new comic packs in the GLENMONT NY area...both Kmart and Walmarts both got hit...ALOT.
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07-26-2008, 11:42 PM | #65 |
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I went hunting today, and it was stunning to learn that some people have no soul. I'd read about all the repacks and return nonsense that goes on in other places, but I'd never seen it before... until today.
At WM, there was only one vehicle pack, a RAM/TrubbleBubble pack, in which the televiper was missing and breaker was just rolling around. Then at Target, there was only one vehicle, a vamp where someone had returned it after replacing clutch with a Steel Brigade Red-Zone figure. Then I went to another target that had two vehicles, but the televiper had been replaced with a DTC Scrap Iron. Finally, I found a vamp there with clutch, and I was stunned to find something that was unmolested. I was so happy that I became skeptical and wondered what was wrong with the item. After taking a closer look, I realized that someone had replaced the vamp with an '82 vamp and returned it. Seriously, is this the work of one jerk in every town, or has society just gone to hell such that outright stealing of toys is common and acceptable? Really, some people have no soul. I buy lots online just for this reason, but it's sad that people stoop so low. I thought it was only in other places, but I guess the jerks have migrated here too. |
07-27-2008, 12:05 AM | #66 |
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I've seen this happen with the Premium line of Movie Transformers being returned with the regular versions in the package on the shelf kinda sucks this mentality made its way to the Joes just as bad when people were stealing the Doc stickers from the first waves of comic packs.I was sooo pissed when I got excited to find an Ace/Wild Weasel way back then only to find the file cards and Doc sticker missing
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07-27-2008, 12:06 AM | #67 |
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I don't mean to condone those who do this, they are in the wrong. However, I do think Hasbro is part of this problem too. If they wouldn't make it so hard to get figures that people want, without buying things they don't want, we wouldn't see this happening so much.
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07-27-2008, 12:45 AM | #68 |
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I'm not sure that distribution is the main problem. I think high prices and a false sense of entitlement are as much to blame as lack of product.
If they had a full shelf of VAMPs, I don't think that would have mattered to the guy that switched it with the '82 version. I think he just didn't want to pay for a new one, and he felt he was justified in trading his 25 year old toy for the new one at the expense of the store or the unsuspecting buyer that gets stuck with his junk. He's probably proud of himself for having "stuck it to the man". I think it's just sad and pathetic. It mostly irks me that someone will buy those toys and be disappointed when they get home and realize they've been had. |
07-27-2008, 12:46 AM | #69 |
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07-27-2008, 12:48 AM | #70 |
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BS...Assholes are Assholes regardless of what Hasbro does. That's like saying a convenience store deserves to be robbed because they have money in there. These pricks choose to collect, they just decided to steal them rather than buy. I pray to God that one of them gets busted and is made an example of. This is retail theft, plain and simple. Hey you elaborate shoplifting dickheads, why don't you just grow some balls, stuff the whole toy isle in your pants and simply walk out? That would save you a lot of work, and you can keep the crappy figures you would have replaced them with. If you are going to be a criminal, you might as well do it right. Hell, why not just hijack the Hasbro delivery truck while your at it.
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