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New GIJOE Classified Cobra Island Special Mission Sets
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04-12-2021, 12:48 PM
Jmacq1
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Joebros
Nope, that hurts us.
Many of us used those third-party sites to find stuff. That's how I acquired most of my classified figures. I'd run the numbers and if a local or simi-local store had something, I'd zip over there. If I was on the road, I'd use the sites to check surrounding stores to see which ones were worth my time.
See, I have a life. Work, errands, places to go, people to meet, things to do. Scalper scum do not.
They CAN hit Target EVERY MORNING. They CAN spend most of a day in a store/visiting multiple stores to find figures. They CAN sit at a computer/on a cell phone hitting F5 on a website all day long. They CAN & DO have employees on the payroll (literally and figuratively) to give the heads-up on shipments. Since Classified first came out, many here can attest to that.
Heck, how many employees have we heard of buying Joes themselves to flip? Double that number.
Granted, conversations will be much shorter without the "your system says you have it, where is it?!" part, but the store will still have 50 people a day asking.
Were you not collecting in the days before third party inventory scanning programs?
I've got a life too. I'd imagine most people here do. Outside of the Cobra Viper I managed to score every Cobra Island figure in stores, and only once with the aid of a third party program. Yeah, sometimes it meant being there at open on a day I had off anyway, but if "having a life" means you're so busy you could never possibly do something like that, then how do you have time to collect at all?
You're not talking about any problems that haven't existed since adult collecting became a thing. It's certainly not unique to Target or G.I. Joe.
I don't know what to tell you, man. You seem to have a view of collecting being something that it has never been. There are always going to be those that can "be there at open" and those that can't. Those that can stalk the internet at all hours of the day with the aid of bots and those that can't. Nothing is going to change that and nobody is going to start "manufacturing to preorder" on store exclusives anytime soon (Except MAYBE places like Hasbro Pulse and manufacturer-run storefronts), because the whole point of exclusives is to get peoples' butts into the stores.
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Sign or no sign, employees will be asked HOURLY about G.I.Joe.
I can't tell you how many times an employee would say "we don't have it" almost before I could finish the question, no matter how nicely I asked. A couple times I asked if they could check the back for something, and we start walking to the TWO PEGS where Joes should have been, and the employee stops about halfway and says "G.I.Joe? We don't have it."
Never mind the accompanying looks.
Bottom line is customers are customers, and employees have to engage people, and they don't know whos who until that happens.
Yes, interactions will be shorter once employee dude says "talk to the sign", but 20 minutes later they'll be repeating the same thing.
So, as you've just pointed out, it's apparently no change from what the Target Employees are already dealing with, since they're already cutting you off and knowing what you're looking for if you so much as glance in the general direction of the Toy Aisles. The bottom line is that Target wants foot traffic in stores, not online orders that don't include the potential for impulse buying.
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