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12-21-2020, 09:23 AM | #11 |
Joe Greenshirt
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This line is extremely hard to find in the wild.
Probably a combination of high demand and low supply. Then add in poor distribution and you have a recipe for disaster. I recommend Hasbro Pulse for the ones they offer for pre-order. I’ve obtained must all of mine that way. My son is going the retail route and there are a couple we have still never seen in store. I’ve seen a total of 1 x CC and 1 x GH. Zero Red Ninja in a store. Pulse is not speedy and you’ll likely have to wait a little longer after they hit retail stores but you will get them. I have Flint and LJ on preorder. Target exclusives are another story! I don’t even want to get into that! Too bad those are not on Pulse.
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01-01-2021, 01:35 PM | #12 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Lansdale, PA
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Hey everybody, this is my first post here in 9 years!
Anyway, I imagine some of you are fans/ collectors of the GI Joe Classified toy line. I was wondering if any of you have had a similar experience to mine, and if so, could you give me some advice. My story. I'm not a serious collector. I hadn't bought a GI Joe figure in over 20 years. I found out about this line this summer (after the first wave had come out.) I was new to collecting so I went to Big Bad Toy Store (the only collectible retailer I knew of at the time) and ordered the whole first wave. That was back in July. I'm still waiting for my order to be filled and shipped. 😡😡😡 Shortly after that I found out about the Target exclusive Baroness...which, of course, sold out before I could even get online. I'm still trying to get one but I'm not willing to pay 3x retail value for it. Then I found out about the Amazon exclusive Storm Shadow. I ordered it back in September. It also has not been filled or shipped. I've inquired about this to both customer service departments and they both said the same thing....they're waiting on shipments from Hasbro. So I was wondering if any of you have similar stories (misery loves company). Also, if any if you have any advice on how to proceed from here I'd be grateful. I'm frustrated. Frustrated enough to consider cancelling my orders and just giving up on this line. So again, any advice would be appreciated and feel welcome to vent here as well.
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01-01-2021, 06:48 PM | #13 |
Iron Grenadier
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Guys whatever you do do not feed the mercari and ebay scalpers. They use bot technology to make 1000s of purchases in seconds. In fact they make these purchases long before the sale goes live and it activates in seconds which is how you sell out in seconds when the sale goes live. And its never just one guy, its multiple who pay scalperbot services to make these orders for them. They then jack the price on ebay and mercari. The only way to stop them is to dry them out. They spend a ton of money doing this and target will not accept their returns so they will be forced to break even eventually. Just last night we tracked one of them down and figured out how the bot works. He forwarded the info to hasbro and target and laid out the methodology of how the entire scam works.
I missed on my vipers and firefly which irked me enough to track down the scalper idiotic enough to brag about what they did. He had a trail the size of texas. And no I do not regret throwing this guy under the bus if I feel he is hurting the line. Also, I am sick and tired of running around like a fool begging underpaid target employees for toys. Its pathetic. That said, I did the whole hunting thing in september and was able to use popfindr to get two cobra troopers and a baroness. I left a baroness behind for the collector behind me. I traded a really expensive Marvel Legend for beachhead. I got my storm shadow order just fine but I know many who ordered at the same time as me that did not. I have seen stormy pop up multiple times on amazon, my advice is if you have had yours waiting for a while just buy him again and the chances of the new order getting fulfilled on amazon before your old one is very likely, I have seen this flaw in their system. If that happens then cancel your old order. It does not affect stock, if anything it forces them to order more because unlike target and walmart, amazon orders a lot more stock and does so continously. So youll get your toy eventually, but that is a trick if you want to wait less time. I dont know why they do this. Last edited by SlackerViper; 01-01-2021 at 06:52 PM.. |
01-01-2021, 06:59 PM | #14 |
Crimson Guard
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I have no choice. If I want a Firefly, and I DO....I'm gonna have to pay some scalper piece of shit at least $100.
I live in Japan. There are no Targets here. Even if there were, Target fucked this all up for all of us. Pulse won't even let me use my Japanese credit card to order stuff if I use an American address, so they're no help either. In the past, 25th and POC days, I actually was able to get really hard to find stuff from Hisstankers cool enough to grab an extra and mail it to Japan for me. But that won't be the case with Firefly and Viper cause there's not even enough to go around for Tankers. I'm so mad as Hasbro I could puke. |
01-01-2021, 07:31 PM | #15 |
Crimson Guard
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I actually never wanted the bike so that is even better news to my ears.
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01-01-2021, 07:41 PM | #16 |
Crimson Guard
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I got my storm shadow order just fine but I know many who ordered at the same time as me that did not. I have seen stormy pop up multiple times on amazon, my advice is if you have had yours waiting for a while just buy him again and the chances of the new order getting fulfilled on amazon before your old one is very likely, I have seen this flaw in their system. If that happens then cancel your old order. It does not affect stock, if anything it forces them to order more because unlike target and walmart, amazon orders a lot more stock and does so continously. So youll get your toy eventually, but that is a trick if you want to wait less time. I dont know why they do this.
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01-01-2021, 08:04 PM | #17 |
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If Hasbro doesn't do either of those things for Joes, it's their own choice and their own fault. They have clearly shown they can make more of the past Target exclusives for Star Wars. |
01-02-2021, 12:17 AM | #18 |
Crimson Guard
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They won't remake the Target stuff because they risk alienating their biggest client...not Target, but SCALPERS.
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