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12-13-2022, 12:00 PM | #1 |
Ne Plus Ulta
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Brooklyn
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So I got my Sarge figure today. The thing is I forgot that I even ordered Sarge. Other figures that I forgot that I ordered includes Stalker, and my COBRA officers. I guess having two of figure isn't entirely bad. Unless it's a peg warmer you could always sell it. If you're a customizer you have custom fodder and if you forgot you pre-ordered an army builder there's always a home for that. So share those stories of figures you forgot that you ordered.
I'm especially interested in hearing those stories about how you guys went on these arduous toy hunts that involved going to every Target, Walmart, and speciality within three counties, made the Target employee get a figure off of an unloaded pallet, (still in shrink wrap,) at closing time, you get home to find a figure you ordered in the previous year waiting for you at home.
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12-13-2022, 12:22 PM | #2 |
GI Joe Graffiti General
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Mindbenders Laboratory
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So I got my Sarge figure today. The thing is I forgot that I even ordered Sarge. Other figures that I forgot that I ordered includes Stalker, and my COBRA officers. I guess having two of figure isn't entirely bad. Unless it's a peg warmer you could always sell it. If you're a customizer you have custom fodder and if you forgot you pre-ordered an army builder there's always a home for that. So share those stories of figures you forgot that you ordered.
I'm especially interested in hearing those stories about how you guys went on these arduous toy hunts that involved going to every Target, Walmart, and speciality within three counties, made the Target employee get a figure off of an unloaded pallet, (still in shrink wrap,) at closing time, you get home to find a figure you ordered in the previous year waiting for you at home. Forgot I ordered them off the bay. Now I have 4 of each. Crimson is a pretty perfect figure , and spirit with Light mods, became perfect. I don?t do the target scream at an employee, track trucks or insult people who pay more to get them first. I just make fun of those who do the stated above.
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12-13-2022, 01:05 PM | #3 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: TA
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I have a story that is kind of what you looking for, but not exactly.
I support HCC788 on Patreon, and there was a time when he got the gold helmet steel brigade and decided to create a special pin and send it to all his supporters to celebrate this rare figure. I don't live in the US so sending me the pin is expensive, but he decided to do it anyway. I had no idea when exactly he was going to send me the pin, and after a few months I thought it was lost in the mail and decided to say nothing to HCC788, because he would have just expend the extra money to send me the pin again. I forgot the all thing until one day I got a mail from HCC788. It was one of those envelopes with air bubbles to keep whatever inside. I opened the envelope only to find it was empty. HCC788 send me an empty envelope by accident. I never told this story until now. As I said, if I told it to HCC788 he would have just spend the extra money to send me the pin again. I think that the pin would have been a great addition to my collection, but now I got something even better - a funny story to share with other collectors! |
12-13-2022, 01:21 PM | #4 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Alabama
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I try to leave the house as infrequently as possible, so not much in the way of Target dramatics to share. Tho I did get a bit irritated when I went there for Christmas shopping and they didn't have the Sam Adams holiday packs.
Cancelled lots of Classifieds on Pulse, but forgot I had two Officers, Stalker, Dusty, and a box of CGs ordered on Amazon. Thankfully the Officers' arrival gave me a heads up. Decided to keep Stalker and Dusty. Let the CGs go. Also discovered I had an Elite Hulk Hogan that appears to be based on his WrestleMania 9 appearance preordered there as well. Dunno how that one happened. Drunk probably. DrunkBay is another story for Forgot I Did That stories. Damn that Make an Offer feature.
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12-13-2022, 02:04 PM | #5 |
Ne Plus Ulta
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 4,904
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So HCC788 sent you a deluxe No-Prize?
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12-13-2022, 04:56 PM | #6 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Florida
Posts: 4,134
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2 cancellations in last year's ME Retro line I forget so I got doubles of Duke/Lady Jaye
PP Viper I just got I kind of forgot |
12-13-2022, 11:09 PM | #7 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Va.
Posts: 262
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A few times I've bid on a figure, forgetting that I had already bid on it in another auction and ended up winning both.
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12-14-2022, 04:10 AM | #8 |
Mass Nerderer
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Slitherin' around the tank- It's cool, though, 'cause I'm being "watched"
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I've miraculously manafged to do alright with this over the past couple of years, which is as long as I've been playing the PO game, but I did slip up and double order Stalker. Luckily managed to find him a home fairly easily.
I've done that a few times myself. Luckily o-ring Joes are a pretty easy flip.
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12-15-2022, 11:07 AM | #9 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Alabama
Posts: 870
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Well. DrunkBay strikes again. I wish my phone had a means of disabling itself before I press the "make an offer" button whilst intoxicated.
Gonna be a fun Christmas for me tho. Both Sideshow CCs under the tree this year.
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