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11-27-2021, 10:49 AM | #2251 |
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Did anyone pay $200 for Beach Head? I thought that was Bludd.
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11-27-2021, 11:34 AM | #2252 |
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11-27-2021, 12:59 PM | #2253 |
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Found down in Birmingham this AM too.
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11-27-2021, 02:31 PM | #2254 |
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And as someone who's worked in retail (record stores, back when they existed) I can explain why these went to Bargain Hunt and not Target:
First thing you need to know is when a factory takes an order they have a +/- percentage that's usually about 10% that they're allowed to go over under, because they're not selling you (the company making the toy) units they're giving you a block of time. So if you want 50,000 beachheads they can make up to 55,000 of them and you have to buy all of them (or 45,000). My percentage may be off, but that's how it works. You order 50k and they say "it should take 1 week to make those, so we'll get as many as we can and you buy them" So Target told Hasbro they wanted 50k, hasbro tells that to the factory, and lets say the factory comes back and actually hands over 50,562. Target buys 50k from Hasbro, and 562 sit in Hasbro's warehouse for 6 months. Target doesn't want them (though they could take them and put them on their website, but they likely don't want to bother). Hasbro Pulse doesn't know about them, but there's a Hasbro warehouse guy that wants them gone. So the Hasbro "sell to discounters" guy sees a relatively small batch of GI Joe figures and knows that Ross (1500 stores) won't want only 562 figures, so they go to a smaller outfit like Bargain Hunt (85 stores). Bargain hunt can send two cases to every store and blow them out. Ross doesn't want that few as they'd have to figure out which stores get some and which dont, which is a pain in the ass. My numbers and estimates are just examples, but thats why you see random small quantities of stuff. Its also why DD's Discount got some random TFs last year, and why one goodwill in Minneapolis got like 200 Blaster re-issues (though this would have come from Target's main HQ). Similarly Big Lots apparently got a bunch of MOTU Origins Eternian Guard figures that were supposed to be BBTS/EE exclusives
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11-27-2021, 03:53 PM | #2255 |
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The only thing my crappy bhs have is those apex figs,
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11-27-2021, 07:09 PM | #2256 |
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I think so... he was the one for a while. I remember seeing him at Target ONCE and that was way way early into it. I passed on him and once I realized that was a mistake he was big bucks on ebay. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. I could use the (unmistakable) light blue eyes version so I may pay a visit to the discount stores near by.
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11-28-2021, 11:43 AM | #2257 |
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I think so... he was the one for a while. I remember seeing him at Target ONCE and that was way way early into it. I passed on him and once I realized that was a mistake he was big bucks on ebay. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. I could use the (unmistakable) light blue eyes version so I may pay a visit to the discount stores near by.
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11-28-2021, 12:45 PM | #2258 |
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So far this weekend I've picked up Snake Eyes Origins Scarlett, Akiko and Snake Eyes. I haven't opened them but Scarlett still looks amazing and Akiko look way better in hand than in pictures.
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11-28-2021, 01:05 PM | #2259 |
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I just found the same thing. I picked up the origins Scarlett and SE in a trade and both figures are great sculpts and look better I hand. I thought they were nice offshoots from the ARAH ones being made, regardless of what ppl think of the movie.
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11-28-2021, 07:39 PM | #2260 |
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The interesting thing is the Bargain Hunt near me seems to get mostly stuff that made it to Target, got damaged or couldn't even get clearanced out, and got marked salvage and sold via pallet to Bargain Hunt, rather than the overstock process BenjaminXavier described.
In other words, they seem to get a lot of beaten up stuff Target discarded instead of the new-looking stuff Tuesday Morning gets. But I guess they probably get some of that as well.
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