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09-26-2020, 10:24 PM | #6701 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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did they show the box numbers for these figures and where they fit into the classified wave / ci wave...feels like we are missing 2 from each
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09-26-2020, 10:25 PM | #6702 |
Yearbook Photographer
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NJ
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It was also limited to (1) per person and still sold out super quick meaning that again, just some extra units hanging around that finally needed to go. |
09-26-2020, 10:25 PM | #6703 |
Joe Gramps aka Mr H
Join Date: May 2012
Location: NJ ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ
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Hell no. Had Firefly in my cart and lost out while trying to get the Viper. Fuckin Target...
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09-27-2020, 12:10 AM | #6704 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Orange County CA
Posts: 131
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According to PopFindr, the new CI Firefly & Viper are street dated for January 1, 2021
LMAO...here we go again. |
09-27-2020, 12:19 AM | #6705 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: PA
Posts: 1,006
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A street date will be fine if all parties are in agreement on the same date LOL. Also if they don’t show up in November and we have half saying can’t sell and the other half saying yeah sure here you go. Fingers crossed this time around it is smoother.
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09-27-2020, 01:21 AM | #6706 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Webberville, MI
Posts: 59
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09-27-2020, 01:31 AM | #6707 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Far, Far Away
Posts: 1,446
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As I just stated in the other thread, no. IMO the only reason that it went up today, sold out so quick and was hardly even advertised was because they knew it wouldn't last as it was just some customer service stock that's been sitting around since the first two runs.
It was also limited to (1) per person and still sold out super quick meaning that again, just some extra units hanging around that finally needed to go. |
09-27-2020, 01:35 AM | #6708 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Far, Far Away
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09-27-2020, 02:02 AM | #6709 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 194
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After everything that happened why is anyone even wasting their time with Target? These will all get released in another version later, why torture yourselves?
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09-27-2020, 03:11 AM | #6710 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: West Coast
Posts: 54
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First, Target still seems to buy into exclusives because some idiot executive believes the pre-internet marketing theories that exclusive product will bring foot traffic into stores, and then the dumb sheep of your customer will fill out their shopping basket with everything else you sell. But these exclusives are too hot, and we’re too busy running down toy aisles like bozos to bother buying toothpaste and paper towels. Next, brick and mortar stores have a certain level of uneasiness with their online sites. On some level, the ease of online shopping is counter to what a big box general store is trying to do to get you to consume goods. They want you in the store to impulsively buy. Finally, Target’s logistic and distribution channels are not set up for exclusive products. They are setup to sell general goods with year-round or seasonal availability that are not experiencing any kind of demand spikes. Consider the absurd situations that have happened to fulfill some of these orders: employees in the Midwest going into the aisles of active stores to maybe pull hot product off the shelf to FedEx that product to the West Coast for fulfillment. Then, more commonly, orders sent to stores for fulfillment are never met and eventually cancelled because all the stores countrywide have at least three people outside at opening to grab stock as it comes off the trucks. Scalpers and collectors are more informed and care more than the employees at the store. If the employees know, they are probably scalping the product themselves. And the store has a mismatched procedure set for fulfillment because the work flow wasn’t designed for hot items, it was designed to sell sticks of gum, bananas, a pack of socks, and paper clips. Supply on some of these items is fine. I can guarantee there is no true run on Santa deco range trooper or the 1/18 ecto-1 for the peg-warming plasma series. The first solution isn’t to flood the market with more supply. That will definitely create overproduction waste. The first solution is for Target, and the other Brick-and-mortar exclusive retailers trying to fill the Toys-R-Us void, to redesign some of their distribution practices for a different kind of product demand. Part of the solution also asks slowly dying brick-and-mortar retailers to better embrace online sales in a way that enhances their business model instead of detracting from it; but that requires embracing new theories of retail that many executives cannot comprehend because their business degrees were from pre-internet schools of thought. The problem isn’t just about making sure the system can handle high spike-demand items either. It is also accounting for low demand items or waning demand items. The point is that while a redesign will take an effort, it will increase profitability. Or Target can continue to refuse to update their logistics and we can hope they go out of business sooner rather than later for wanting to be the leading retailer in pre-internet sales methodology. Because the alternative is the growing silent boycott of their stores and the loud chanting of fans spending twenty to thirty minutes spamming “NO MORE TARGET” at an internet convention. tl;dr: Joes are now the prime case study of modern retail problems, consumer purchasing expectations in an internet era, and the changing demographics of toy buying. |
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