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01-01-2012, 02:27 AM | #11 |
Retired Toy Hunter
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Burbank, Ca.
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I say buy them online, screw brick & mortars.
Mark my words, the big three (Target, TRU, & WalMart) won't stock $#!+ but when Retaliation hits, the pegs are going to fall off from all the figures they order. Then after the Movieline they won't order any of the awesome stuff Hasbro will offer and it'll be the same $#!+ all over again. "Joe didn't sell as we expected, with a movie attached. Don't order any more from the Joe brand." Remember, ROC they couldn't give them away. Then we got all the awesome goodness with POC & 30th line and retailers screwed us.
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01-01-2012, 02:39 AM | #12 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Portland, OR
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don't do it, let it take the natural course... And your best bet is BBTS right now...
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01-01-2012, 02:51 AM | #13 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Louisville
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It works- at Target anyway. I've bought and relocated a certain location's Joe section twice. Both times, new cases filled the empty pegs within 2 weeks.
A lot to go through for a few Shock Troopers.
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01-01-2012, 04:34 AM | #14 |
G.I JOE Dentist
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Location: Eugene Oregon
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Well it seems everybody is telling me that it will work but its more hassle than it is worth and some of you even think Im pulling a scalper / re-packer trick. Very interesting. I may just wait till the movie figures are showing up and do it then so I can get some of those new figures. Before I get threats or hatemail, please understand im doing this for every Joe collector in my areas benefit. They have as much or even more of a chance to get the good stuff this way.
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01-01-2012, 05:27 AM | #15 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Louisville
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Well it seems everybody is telling me that it will work but its more hassle than it is worth and some of you even think Im pulling a scalper / re-packer trick. Very interesting. I may just wait till the movie figures are showing up and do it then so I can get some of those new figures. Before I get threats or hatemail, please understand im doing this for every Joe collector in my areas benefit. They have as much or even more of a chance to get the good stuff this way.
Good luck on your relocation program.
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01-02-2012, 02:59 AM | #16 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: snohomish wa
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i agree with u, i even stopped chasing after them, to frustating. if i get them i do if not..... oh well, yo joe!
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01-02-2012, 04:42 AM | #17 |
Cobra Boomcat
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Dulles, VA
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What I have done, with success, is purchase all the pegwarmers from a WalMart that carries Joes(only one within 80 miles) and return them at a Wal-mart that doesn't carry them. This serves two purposes: 1. The store that does stock them now needs to order more, and most likely will be a newish wave. 2. The store that doesn't carry them now has them in their system, and if they sell enough of them(say almost a case worth), the system will order more unless voided by the manager. In this way I end up with my one good store getting new stuff, and one worthless store hopefully starting to carry Joes. And if they don't? No worse off than I am now.
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01-02-2012, 10:36 AM | #18 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 243
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Does this really work? In this computer automated society we live in I would not be surprised to discover that the only way to get a store to order more GIJOE's is if they do not have anymore in the inventory system. People have been saying on the tank for years to buy up the pegwarmers and keep the receipt so you can return/exchange them later, but I am curious to find out if anybody has tried this. Did you buy up all the arctic destroys and then next week there was 30th anniv shit hanging in its place? How do the big chain stores do their ordering?
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01-02-2012, 12:11 PM | #19 |
Cobra Deus Mors
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Look behind you.
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These figures are not worth more than 5 bucks unless you make yourself think that (2.5 is retail markup. discount stores are at 5 and as low as 3 =1.5 x 2.5 that's my math). Yes this works for reordering and the like due to automation in major stores, but so does asking a manager, owner, or whoever runs the show that will listen. I say get them anyway you can, but all this bringing stuff to another store to trick computers, you ain't the matix neo (and it is kinda lame to see some shit from ross traded in for the new crap at wal-do...that is theft no matter how much butter you put on that cow turd). Just use simple human coimmuincation instead of ghetto ninja style and see if that works. And if it doesn't then hire someone who does not speak like a super nerd (because we nerds can be so damn annoying in conversation). COBRA!
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