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Colorado G.I. Joe Sightings
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10-22-2007, 07:31 PM
Gaelinic
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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I actually live right there at Parker & Arapahoe, and I know the guys at ePlanet too - they actually don't buy anything from the stores for resell. They used to buy stuff from the scalpers a few years back, but the way the market is, it all comes direct from the manufacturer now. The only Joes they got in was wave 1, and I got my case there. They haven't had any 25th Joes for sale since summer (which sucks!).
I don't mean to disparrage a guy I really don't know, but how would you know he doesn't pick up stuff. Would he actually tell one of his customers that he's cleaning up the competition so he can have a local monopoly on a product? It makes sense for a business to buy stuff cheap and sell it for a mark up. You can't fault a business for thinking that way. However, as a collector, you CAN fault a scalper cleaning up the local stock. Why wouldn't they go to the local stores on their way in? Oh, unless there's some sort of tax penalty or crime problem in them doing this.
As for scalper stories, I got a doozy. I'm walking into a Wal-mart and stroll over to the Toy section. Sitting in the Hot Wheels section is this guy on the ground over a pile of cars. He's opening up a mystery package. He looks up at me as I pass by him on the way to Joe Nirvana. He jumps up, grabs his stuff, and tells me to wait. He then barrels through me and leaps (literally) at the Transformers.
He then yells, "Mine," as he puts his back to all the Transformers. I gingerly walk past him and look at the Joes, miraculously untouched. He sees I'm uninterested and walks back to his Hot Wheels meditation chamber.
I then go back to the Transformers and start to look through them. Every couple of seconds, I'm glancing at him. I have enough sense to know what's valuable there but really don't care. I pick up some of the rarer ones and move them over an isle.
Hot Wheels Troll is still oblivious.
I pick up a Voyager Optimus Prime and start walking around him. I stop over him and look at the Hot Wheels.
He looks up and sees what I have. The freak reaches up and tries to grab the package. I step back, while acting oblivious.
He stands up and demands I return it to his . . .
And he looks back and sees his Transformers section has been rifled through. He runs back there, at the same time, giving off that Rancor whine of defeat you hear in Return of the Jedi.
I salute him and walk away.
I heard him runing towards me and heard this loud crash and boom as the isle wall shook violently. The guy had stumbled and fallen over the entire car section of the aisle.
It's the little things in life that brighten your day.
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