[280-CUSTOMS]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

Bad news, I'm back in the hospital and have missed the last couple days of chatting.

Good news, Sgt. Slaughter is shipping soon!

Hopefully I make it home before he does. 🤞

Man get better bud we are thinking about you , hope everything else is well and good .

[DFender]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

Bad news, I'm back in the hospital and have missed the last couple days of chatting.

Good news, Sgt. Slaughter is shipping soon!

Hopefully I make it home before he does. 🤞

Feel better bro! Hopefully you get outa there soon.

[280-CUSTOMS]

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Originally Posted by theNAMmagazine

I'm not so sure that's an accurate statement for an "all encompassing" analysis. Sure some of it sells horribly, but the very reason some can't find it is because it's selling through. Especially if they discounted an older wave and the newer wave arrives on that same, adjusted discount. There's also the issue of stores not getting the product out in a timely fashion, so that when the product actually hits the floor, it's several waves behind and doesn't sell (so they ignorantly let it rot on the pegs while sending the newer product, sitting in their distribution centers, to discount retailers). That's a distribution issue that's been plaguing B&M long before the pandemic. That's not even addressing stores like WalMart who might have Classified available online, but don't ship it to a lot of their stores, so you'd never see it there, anyway. Frankly, lots of reasons, but "selling horribly" is limited to a small, very specific aspect, not the whole.

I agree with your statement 100% but it made me think back when kaybee toys owned the discounted figure market they had-everything @ one point in time or another i picked up 4 of the crimson hiss w/asp boxed sets for less than $15.00 apiece back in the early 2000?s and some micronauts even spy troops joes and then lotr as well among the many figure/stuff they would get and sell on discount . Even media play ? i miss that store?would pull the target card and discount a figure/whatever a month after they came out i picked up 2 of the jawa sand-crawler from them for $25 and some change that store killed it on the clearance .

[Trigger2K]

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Originally Posted by Sysiss

For whatever reason Target seems to be obsessed with deluxe items which do nothing but rot on the shelves so they for whatever reason still get that, but this stuff doesn't move.

I'd think it's more to get people in the store than making a profit on their exclusives. How many collectors are going in Target to find a Tiger Paw that's not there? Then they're likely to buy something else instead of walking out empty handed.

I've never once found any classified worth buying in Target. The last time I checked was when the app said Breaker was in stock and they only had a couple boxed Lady Jaye's on the peg.

[280-CUSTOMS]

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Originally Posted by Trigger2K

I'd think it's more to get people in the store than making a profit on their exclusives. How many collectors are going in Target to find a Tiger Paw that's not there? Then they're likely to buy something else instead of walking out empty handed.

I've never once found any classified worth buying in Target. The last time I checked was when the app said Breaker was in stock and they only had a couple boxed Lady Jaye's on the peg.

I found plenty of good ones @ target i picked hl 3 tf outbacks for maybe $7 and some change po bats and vipers along with pp copperhead/officer/trooper and most other tf as well picked up a tf ram for $20 and ive picked up 3 mutt/junks @ different times for under $25 apiece you can never have too many dogs especially rotties .
Area and local itself some store barely sell toys wall/target included i was @ a wally south of ft myers and all of their spray cans were behind locked glass cases .. its all about the local/traffic per store when i lived in columbus full time there were so many wallys/targets and i take in account for other collectors whatever only a few stores would get the same product at the same time or even @ all . I hunted like crazy back in the day ..

[Trigger2K]

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Originally Posted by 280-CUSTOMS

I found plenty of good ones @ target i picked hl 3 tf outbacks for maybe $7 and some change po bats and vipers along with pp copperhead/officer/trooper and most other tf as well picked up a tf ram for $20 and ive picked up 3 mutt/junks @ different times for under $25 apiece you can never have too many dogs especially rotties .
Area and local itself some store barely sell toys wall/target included i was @ a wally south of ft myers and all of their spray cans were behind locked glass cases .. its all about the local/traffic per store when i lived in columbus full time there were so many wallys/targets and i take in account for other collectors whatever only a few stores would get the same product at the same time or even @ all . I hunted like crazy back in the day ..

I take it stores in more populated areas get the best stock. I'm in kind of a rural area and it's been a complete waste of time going in any store to find Classifieds. I see lots of pics online of nice clearance deals and full shelves and that just doesn't happen here.

[280-CUSTOMS]

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Originally Posted by Trigger2K

I take it stores in more populated areas get the best stock. I'm in kind of a rural area and it's been a complete waste of time going in any store to find Classifieds. I see lots of pics online of nice clearance deals and full shelves and that just doesn't happen here.

I totally get it big city small village/town .

Here in punta gorda there is a walmart that has a liquor store attached to it a few walgreens and thats it they get some stuff but not much . Now go north across the peace river and there is an ollies/target/ross/wally/many walgreens and its hit or miss i know a few collectirs but see many others .. its weird demographic/local feels about spot on here .

[JeepJedi]

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Originally Posted by Trigger2K

I take it stores in more populated areas get the best stock. I'm in kind of a rural area and it's been a complete waste of time going in any store to find Classifieds. I see lots of pics online of nice clearance deals and full shelves and that just doesn't happen here.

I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and we never have any stock of anything around here. Could be there are tons of collectors that just snatch things before I see it I guess... but I don't even waste time hunting for stuff any more in brick and mortar stores.

We have huge distribution hubs for everything as well.. doesn't seem to make a difference.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by 280-CUSTOMS

kaybee toys

The last toy I got from Kaybee:

[Eagle]

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Originally Posted by JeepJedi

I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and we never have any stock of anything around here. Could be there are tons of collectors that just snatch things before I see it I guess... but I don't even waste time hunting for stuff any more in brick and mortar stores.

We have huge distribution hubs for everything as well.. doesn't seem to make a difference.

I agree you hunting in dfw is not fun never anything on the shelves