[nighthawk]

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Originally Posted by 46 Zone

Now that you have it in hand, are there any good qualities from that set?

Figure looks better in hand. Givrs a Fortnite vibe though. Gonna post some pics of his elbow joint. I figured out why so many people broke theirs. It's a design issue.

[sbartek1974]

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Originally Posted by CG76

It’s actually a preorder from Walmart.com. Very disappointing.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/G-I-Joe-R...ries/693731258

Isn't that the vehicle price? Maybe it's a typo.

[46 Zone]

Quote:

Originally Posted by CG76

It’s actually a preorder from Walmart.com. Very disappointing.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/G-I-Joe-R...ries/693731258

They are selling Duke for the same price!!!! I didn't know sh*t could be sold for that much.

[SmokeBellew]

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Originally Posted by sbartek1974

Isn't that the vehicle price? Maybe it's a typo.

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Originally Posted by 46 Zone

They are selling Duke for the same price!!!! I didn't know sh*t could be sold for that much.

The company I work for has had reason to deal with this weirdness lately, and it appears to be a pricing algorithm thing. Walmart.com and Amazon use some sort of program that monitors competitor pricing and adjusts their own price accordingly. It's meant to be a price-matching tool (at least at Amazon). You really notice it with Amazon when a third-party seller on Amazon's own site or a competitor like Target or Walmart decreases a price and Amazon's price follows suit. With Walmart though, it seems to also adjust prices UP to match the pricing of the 3rd-party scalpers on its own site. Whether Walmart's program is fucked up or this is by design is a matter of debate. I personally think Walmart is perfectly fine with selling above MSRP and it's by design.

[Itchweed]

Smoke! How's it going buddy?

[SmokeBellew]

A little more info on this Walmart pricing weirdness. Back when we first started looking into this, in addition to tracking our client's products pricing on Walmart.com, we also selected some random other products to monitor. Since I was into this shit at the time, I added Retro Lady Jaye and some Spin Master DC stuff to the "random" list. I can't talk about our client's products, but I can say that LJ went from a "preorder" price below $12.99 (12.86 or whatever) to $12.99, then to $13.04 (or something) and then to it's current $20-plus price. Meanwhile, third-party sellers on Walmart.com were already selling at that $20+ pricepoint, which feels like Walmart is price-matching upward.

The interesting thing to me is that the Spin Master stuff (Lex Luthor, Wonder Woman and Aquaman all from the same "wave") has done some even stranger shit. The pricing remained flat every time they popped up as in stock ($7.97), but there would only be one of each in stock EVERY TIME. Just that one in stock, it would sell, the item would then be out of stock, only to appear again a week later at $7.97 with one in stock again. Lately the price has begun to increase when they would come back in stock though. Lex went up to $9.50, Aquaman up to $10.22... Now, if you buy a product on Walmart.com for under a certain dollar amount and then request a return, it triggers an automatic refund with a "you can keep, discard or donate this item" and Walmart essentially gives you the item for free. So it could be the price increase on these Spin Master figures is a way to combat this and get the price up to a point where you have to actually return the item for a refund, but it seems odd that the price increases occur on items that habitually sell quickly. That feels to me like there's something (human and/or computer) monitoring prices and adjusting them upward to capitalize on popularity. That's all speculation on my part though.

Why certain products show up as only one in stock at a time is anyone's guess, but I reckon Walmart.com has been literally only listing one case at a time for some reason...not knowing what that case assortment break-down is though, it's hard to know for certain. You'd assume there'd be more than one of each in a case though. Maybe Lex is one per case, but WW and Aquaman too?

TL;DR: Walmart.com is just all sorts of fucking goofy.