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12-31-2007, 10:30 PM | #1 |
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Okay so I usually hit up a few targets and wal-marts daily to search fro 25th figs. I walk into a wal - mart today and while I'm meandering down the star wars section of the action figure aisle, I look down and what do I see:
1 x Phantom Menace Obi-wan 1 x Phantom Menace Padme (both still on the card but looking like someone ran over them a few times with their bike) So as I'm standing there awestruck that a 9 year old action figure is sitting in the toy aisle at wal-mart I'm overtaken with morbid curiosity. How much are they asking for them and are they even in the system? I run each one under the price scanner and they read: Obi-wan Kenobi $5 Padme Naberre $5 My guess is that some collector has found a way "return" his worthless Phantom Menace collection?! Has anyone else ever come across something so foul?? |
12-31-2007, 10:32 PM | #2 |
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WTF!?!? Are you serious!? Why didn't you ask the dudes up front about it?
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12-31-2007, 10:42 PM | #3 |
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I have seen this one time about 2 years ago at my local Walmart.It was a deluxe snowtrooper POTF figure.I scanned it and it rang up like 6.99.Back then it was a 5year+ figure.I thought maybe they found it in the back and just put it out or something.I can't believe people would try and return them.Think about how much joy you could bring the less fortunate by giving your worthless or unwanted toys to them or their kids.Not trying to toot my own horn but I was cleaning out my sons room and I had two star wars posters brand new with the cardboard backing.I took them down to my local book/comic store to try and trade them in for a dollar credit each.A young kid like 7 was intersted in them so I just gave them too him and he was super excited.It's always good when you can pass it forward and bring someone some joy and it doesn't cost you a thing.Sorry for getting off subject.
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12-31-2007, 10:42 PM | #4 |
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A couple of months ago I found a CARDED Vader from the Unleashed line. The date was 2001-2003 (I forget which exactly) The card looked like it had sat in water fo about half a month
Today I found a He-Man figure from 2002 at K-Mart It was the blue and yellow guy with the hologram on his chest |
01-01-2008, 02:02 AM | #5 |
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I wonder how it got returned... Wal-Mart checks their stock status before accepting returns and will refuse if they don't stock it.
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01-01-2008, 02:03 AM | #6 |
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My thought process is that they're items that were found in the back of the store or a warehouse somewhere
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01-01-2008, 02:12 AM | #7 |
I just want foam gliders.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shogi
My thought process is that they're items that were found in the back of the store or a warehouse somewhere
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01-01-2008, 02:59 AM | #8 |
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here's weird...
i went to a wal-mart sunday.....not a super walmart mind you, but a wal-mart. no groceries, no car care center...hell, there wasnt even a star between "wal" and "mart" there was a dash! and inside i found NO JOE! not even spaces for them and two green carded POTFs (maul & kenobi) from 2000...both scanning for regular price. oh, and there was only ONE scanner in the whole store...at the jewelry counter. lets do the timewarp again. Last edited by Gung.Heaux; 01-01-2008 at 05:12 AM.. |
01-02-2008, 12:57 AM | #9 |
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Yep, I'm not really into star wars and dont know all the names, but about I guess two months ago I was in one of my two local wal-marts and noticed an emporer in a blue robe when he was a senator. This was the black and red carded figures that were released after v1 phantom menace. He's long gone now, guess someone snatched him.
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01-02-2008, 03:04 PM | #10 |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shogi
My thought process is that they're items that were found in the back of the store or a warehouse somewhere
That's got to be the case. Just a couple of months ago I was in a Wal-mart and they dumped a whole bunch of old product onto an endcap for Clearance. Among the junk were several Ric Ollie (Captain Obvious) figures looking dusty but new.
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