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09-24-2008, 12:26 PM | #11 |
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Gunslinger, I've seen several stores that suddenly have 10-15 wave 2 troopers over night. Definately someone returning the stock pile.
It isn't so difficult to believe the same thing happens with the Viper in the stores that suddenly have 2 pegs full of Vipers. |
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09-24-2008, 12:27 PM | #12 |
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Amazingly enough, I've seen Vipers up here at TRU in Canada!
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09-24-2008, 12:32 PM | #14 |
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I don't think I've seen any report of Vipers alone reappearing, absent of the rest of the wave they were released with. reports of the Viper peg warming in areas that got a lot of cases of wave 7 have been made since the wave was released, so you have to ignore that, in addition to ignore the rest of the figures that are on the pegs with the Viper that probably came in the same case meaning they were stocked together, to jump to the conclusion that they are being bought and returned just because they are there. |
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09-24-2008, 12:33 PM | #15 |
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The returns aren't necessarily scalpers, but there ARE returns occurring. Perhaps someone was army building and then decided he needed the money or the space and just unloaded? Either way, when you suddenly see a large number of ANY figure without the accompanying wave, it's safe to assume these guys came from somewhere. They don't send out cases of one type of figure.
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you're ignoring the numerous differences between the two to correlate the similarities. I'm not saying people (not just scalpers, collectors as well), buy a lot and return them, but there are huge differences between a few random reports of wave 2 Troopers returning to stores and the Viper peg warming constantly, not just reappearing.
I don't think I've seen any report of Vipers alone reappearing, absent of the rest of the wave they were released with. reports of the Viper peg warming in areas that got a lot of cases of wave 7 have been made since the wave was released, so you have to ignore that, in addition to ignore the rest of the figures that are on the pegs with the Viper that probably came in the same case meaning they were stocked together, to jump to the conclusion that they are being bought and returned just because they are there. |
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09-24-2008, 12:37 PM | #17 |
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no quite. I don't think anyone has really seen a significant mass stocking of just Vipers on the shelf in absence of the rest of the wave they were shipped with, so it isn't a matter of them being bought then returned by scalpers. when you see Vipers, you generally see them with the rest of the wave, meaning that wave has been restocked, not a mass return by scalpers.
add to the fact that wave 7 saw an insane re-release, and the Vipers in that case again just sat on the pegs. |
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i counted 16 vipers at one target once and saw 7 at another target. i know "scalpers/collectors" was returning these. a target employee told me that people would buy the newer figures and return older figures with the reciept from the new figs. he told me thats why you see a random buzzer,hooded cc,serpentor or a wave 4 roadblock mixed in with the leftovers from the current wave.
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09-24-2008, 12:41 PM | #19 |
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I would say that your theory had some weight a few months back but since Hasbro keeps sending out wave 7 cases still to this day, I think everybody has had thier share of vipers at this point and that is why they are warming the shelfs.
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scalpers are pretty aware, that is why the HISS Driver went from being scalper bait to peg warmer pretty quickly. they know when figures aren't desirable anymore, and the Viper had a very short secondary market life. add to that the extreme amount of wave 7 that got released, and you have a figure that didn't sell, not was bought and returned. sure, were Vipers bought and returned? of course, but that doesn't account for the mass reports of their being on shelves as much as the fact that they just haven't sold. |
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