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12-03-2009, 05:00 AM
CrimsonGuard101
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I think almost every person on this board and every other toy board has bought something as a, shall we say, "bargaining chip". I bought an extra Hordak and Man At Arms this past year, in the event I don't get Battlecat or some other damn thing I have to have. There really isn't anything wrong with it. I think what some of the anti-hoarders are chastising is the collectors who will buy every Helix out of eight Wave 3 cases because they knew she was hot, just to prevent others from getting it.
I can't really understand why some do this either but I'll try. Maybe one reason is to sell the extra's to a store or online store for credit, to afford something else. It's kinda scalpy.
Another reason could be to drive up demand locally for the said figure. Maybe like me or you they want multiple bargaining chips to trade with. I personally think that's excessive but that's neither here nor there. A final reason could actually be benevolent they could be buying multiples to hook board members up with. I've done it a few times. Where my intentions were good but I actually created a local shortage of something. Example, there were many collectors nationally, looking for the latest JLU 3 packs, (I know WTF? Right?) and I came upon a lot of them recently and bought the whole stock for guys in Indiana, Iowa, Texas, and Ohio. All for cost and shipping mind you in case anyone was wondering. Scalping is kind of shitty, but I don't hate them like some do. I just don't support them is all.
I thought about doing this just once, when the ROC paravipers hit I kinda got the army builder bug and started picking up 1 or 2 here and there on one big hunt. I was not paying attention to how many I was buying, just said fook it and threw em in my basket. By the time i had reached the last 4-5 stores on the end of my hunt...(kinda of a figure 8 spanning about 250 miles round trip) I stopped to think how many I had bought. I was up to 8. the next 5 stores were flooded with this wave, like 5-9 paravipers per store. If i even wanted to buy them all out there was no way, not in my city it would just be crazy to try and do that. Ended up taking 4 back as I really did not want that many after thinking about it and how dumb it was to even think I could buy that many figures out of that many stores. I think this would be easy if you only had one TRU 2-3 Walmarts 1-2 targets in your area, but in huge cities it would take a cartel of people to do such a thing. And I have not seen many reports of Toy Cartels on the news latley
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