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04-30-2008, 06:40 PM | #61 |
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Your initial post was suggesting that you don't like people who take more than one of each figure. So yes, you were asking me to leave a set for you. But now you are "suggesting that people buy what they want" ....you are being wishy-washy with what it is you are complaining about.
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04-30-2008, 06:44 PM | #62 |
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04-30-2008, 06:45 PM | #63 |
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04-30-2008, 06:47 PM | #64 |
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ok, you just lost any argument, discussion, notion of anything with that comment. Many of us travel to 7 stores in one day when we go searching for a new wave. We have searched for months for these figures. 7 times.. HA!
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04-30-2008, 06:49 PM | #65 |
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I say to hell with the kids.
They had their chance all through Joe vs. Cobra, SpyTroops and VvV--not to mention Sigma Six which was 'specifically tailored to them.' And they weren't interested in the least. They had their shot. It's our turn. Like someone else said, you need to decide what's more important--looking for the figures, or actually 'owning' the figures. When I was a small child, I was big into Power Rangers. When the first season hit, I wanted nothing more than the Holy friggin' Grail--the original Megazord. Come Christmas, and my aunt bought me....a hugeass radio-controlled non-transforming non-coming-apart version of the thing. I cried and it sucked. I didn't get the original Megazord anytime soon after that. I got each successive one, but I still wanted the first one--I asked repeatedly, for every birthday, for every Christmas. Finally, years go by, and I'm pretty much out of MMPR--but I still kinda wanted the Megazord, damnit. And then eBay was just getting big, so I ask if maybe we can look for one on thar. And we find one and it gets shipped out. And I was happy. I didn't care about the hunt. I didn't care about looking for it. I wanted the thing, I could care less about how it arrived in my hands. If the lack of 25th product is really getting to you *that* badly, look into the aformentioned JvC/SpyTroops/VvV lines. There's 'tons' of figures that were released for those lines--good ones, too--that are in 'abundance' throughout the collecting community. If your kid actually likes Joe, I'm sure he won't have a problem with those. Quote:
Besiding that, who says we need the support of the little snot-nosed kids to keep the line running 'at all?' Star Wars was a franchise originally created partially with children in mind, but I'd go out on a limb and say that it's being supported now almost exclusively by adults. Nothing says this line needs to be supported by children. Quote:
But I see now that many of you really don't like love G.I. Joe, you just love collecting crap.
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04-30-2008, 06:49 PM | #66 |
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I am not insulting anyone, again, I'm just sharing my thoughts for the purpose of conversation. And yes I understand the difference between scalpers and collectors and I understand most people here don't camp out at Target, which I'm sorry, is really weak. The collector policy is not ridiculous. When I got my XBox 360, there was a limit of one per customer for obvious reasons. Stores like Target want their customers to be happy. Target makes a lot more money from families who buy a wide range of their products, and probably a lot less from single men in their mom's basement, so it would make business sense to keep the customers with families happy by making sure their kid's favorite toy is stocked. Second, I always find it funny, and it's not just you that says this, but the idea that the scalper is a guy "living in his mom's basement"....maybe he's a guy that cares nothing about toys, but more about the triple or more amount of profit he will make off the collectors and such, by only investing a small amount of time arriving earlier than the collectors. I, frequently buy and resell things I do not collect, to pay for the things I do...Do I have to do this for a living or to afford the things I collect...No, but there is a certain level enjoyment I get out of collecting for "Free" so to speak. If I see a Hot Wheel that I can sell for $20, or a Star Wars figure I can sell for $75, you can bet I will buy it and all on the shelf to pay for my armies of joes...or whatever else I tend to collect. Mr. Savage |
04-30-2008, 06:50 PM | #67 |
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None of us get to determine whether or not the others love G.I. Joe. There is no objective standard. None of us get to determine that. My love of collecting certainly takes a different form than others...I like to open ALL my figs, display them in various poses, and make up fire teams of troop builders (4-6...I think I have 7 CGs and 8 Red Ninjas; that's my limit of troop building). Others like more. Others like 'em carded. Others like one set carded and one to display. And that's fine; that's their prerogative. It doesn't make them bad people and it doesn't mean they love G.I. Joe any more or less than I do. I don't get to decide that about them, and vice versa.
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04-30-2008, 06:51 PM | #68 |
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I am referring to anyone who didn't play with Joes as a kid but hoards the 25th line and to anyone that buys them for the purpose of reselling them.
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04-30-2008, 06:53 PM | #69 |
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my exaggerated point was that we go to many stores in a day and find NOTHING. Some people ask when shipments will come in and come back on certain days instead of every day searching. Last time I went to Toys R Us at opening time the manager was there talking to me about joes and he told me when the trucks were coming in. Hunting for joes takes time and you have to know what you are doing or else you will be wasting time and gas.
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04-30-2008, 06:56 PM | #70 |
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Ever think of how a place like costco or Sams works? Small businesses buy in bulk and resell. Im sorry that all you can find is Buzzer, but dont take it out on us.
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