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05-27-2008, 12:40 AM | #371 |
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The thread grew quite a bit from when I last read it. Congrats Agent-GHQ on convincing the store manager to get you your figs. Reading a lot of your responses to the bashes show that you can be tactful here as well.
I too hate going to stores that don't have figures on the pegs. I tend to be more frustrated than angered when I don't find what I want. When that happens, I find other ways to get them. There's the network of people here that sell them, online stores, fellow board members that are willing to pick up, PM, or call me on a find. Last resort would be eBAy. So far I have found everything I wanted. Also the revision waves have or are pretty much releasing everything from Wave 1 on, with the exception of the variants. Sometimes you just have to get up earlier in the morning to find them. Even if Agent-GHQ didn't do what he did, he is right about being in competition with everyone else. If he didn't pick them up, someone would have. The pegs haven't been dry in a lot of areas because he had picked them clean. Someone else got there before you. Maybe that Buzzer or hooded CC that you always wanted got picked up because you weren't there fast enough. Scalpers and collectors will pick those pegs clean. If they don't, maybe the casual collector or kids will. There's a lot of resources and you have to find what works best for you. Agent-GHQ just found something that worked for him. |
05-27-2008, 12:55 AM | #372 |
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how many times have you walked into a Target, Walmart, or wherever else to find a few Serpentors, Scarlets, and a bent up Cobra Commander hanging on the pegs? What if you were the next collector to walk in the store and pass this guy with a shopping cart full of all the new stuff? Are gonna think "Well, it sure is good he got everything he wanted and then some," or are you gonna be a little more than frustrated that your search was in vain?
I'm not demonizing the guy. It's really cool that he found them. I have the right to bitch though, and if it were me walking in on a motherload of new items, I wouldn't buy out the supply... I'm sure you can understand my point, though. Quote:
With that logic then, why couldn't he just buy maybe one or two Viper figures now, and then once they have "flooded" the market and the demand for them died down, then do his troop building? Why did he have to rob everyone else from obtaining a new and hot figure after it was released instead of waiting until they were mass released?
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Dont even label food and this as the same..........besides Ive never seen a shortage of milk anywhere........Cows make that stuff on a daily basis......Stores dont order enough.....or Hasbro wont ship enough Joes....to some places......Milk and Joes...two different thing.......
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I have never seen anyone get in a confrontation with a store manager and accuse him/her of holding stuff in the back just to prevent him from having his/her way.... However, I have never seen adult gamers act like little children because they couldn't get their way with buying new videogames.
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By the way your worded this post, you sound like you have this arrogant tone that you are some people person and are better than me because of that. For that, I take offense too. However, whatever man. I am done with this thread and will try and prevent myself from making anymore posts about this topic.
You're on different coasts man. He's not the reason you can't find them. The reason is, you're not willing to put in the effort he did to get them early, and you're not willing to wait until they've hit en masse. Get off his jock, man. You're only forced to pay twice as much on eBay because you're either unwilling to et out early enough and hunt hard enough, or you're too impatient to wait to get them when they're all over the place.
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05-27-2008, 01:35 AM | #373 |
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Derek2783, Loved your observation and the responses to the bashes directed towards me. |
05-27-2008, 01:43 AM | #374 |
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Some of you guys don't get it. Right now I can walk into my nearest Socal target where vipers and most of wave 7 have been peg warming for 3 days now. There is no shortage of vipers in socal!! It's ridiculous that some of you guys think he's making you resort to ebay. lol You don't even live on the same coast! lol lol
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05-27-2008, 06:33 AM | #375 |
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I'd be frustrated that I didn't get what I wanted, sure. You got a right to be pissed... but not at him. He got there first. What if 20 people had bought three each? You'd still be in the same boat. Depthcharge above me here puts it just right. If he left 'em, someone else would have grabbed them and you'd still be without.
I think someone else already addressed this, but why should he be the one to wait? Why don't you just wait until demand dies down and get yours? Exactly. They're just toys. You complainers are acting like he stole the last supply of food. We're not making that comparison, you are. I'm trying to show you they're not the same thing, so stop acting like he committed some sort of crime against humanity You know, reading over the post, it doesn't really sound like Agent was being rude, or accusatory. It sounds like he made a logical argument and the manager saw his point of view. Seriously... if Agent had gone in like an a-hole, I guarantee the manager would have told him to piss off. The only way Agent would have gotten the cooperation was to be logical and firm, but polite. Guaranteed. Humble too, I bet... Which is why you don't have 50 of them. So stop bitching about it. That's what's goofy about your argument. You're mad at him for walking out with the 50 figures, and claimed you'd tackle him if you saw him do that, but you're not willing to go through the effort to get what he got. So how can you be upset about it? No where did Agent try to tell anyone he was better than you. Pretty much all he did is say, "Hey, if you present a logical argument in an adult manner to the Target managers, they might allow you to buy what you want". Makes sense to me. You're on different coasts man. He's not the reason you can't find them. The reason is, you're not willing to put in the effort he did to get them early, and you're not willing to wait until they've hit en masse. Get off his jock, man. You're only forced to pay twice as much on eBay because you're either unwilling to et out early enough and hunt hard enough, or you're too impatient to wait to get them when they're all over the place. |
05-27-2008, 07:47 AM | #376 |
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I think everything that's going to be said, has been said (several times over) in this thread now.
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05-27-2008, 08:05 AM | #377 |
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Ok anyone that cant find the Vipers (I cant Believe Im doing this) Smalljoes.com. Its up there in price but he has them....
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05-27-2008, 08:33 AM | #378 |
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wow this is still going , so out there really to get a life , we are talking about a toy made for kids not food supply.
I remember when the CGs came out and i hit every store to get them to get them ,if it meant i got up early then that is what i did, no matter what. you guys want a better shot at getting the joes , do the leg work, build a relationship with a couple of people who work in the store, the women up in the TRU in Columbia Maryland love me, why because i go up there and treat them with respect and flirt with them, its come down to how you play the game. If you see a guy with a load of joe odds are he is a collector and he might be willing to let you have some and might be a new resource to you, make no mistake about me , i see other collectors as a resource to use much like the employees of the stores. so am I pissed him got 70 vipers , no I'm not , he did the work and got his reward for it. what i'm pissed about is all the cry babies here , do the rest of us a favor and just quit collecting G.I. Joe and collect some other line like my little pony or barbie or power rangers!!! |
05-27-2008, 10:50 AM | #379 |
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...and this is proof right here why Generation X and Generation Y is known as the "Me Generation"
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05-27-2008, 11:09 AM | #380 |
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Because saying that it was unfair of Agent to put forth the extra effort and reap the reward was entirely unselfish. Thinking that Agent should have been required to leave some behind for you was in no way about you. Whining that you can't find any has nothing to do with being part of the "Me Generation." EDIT: wolfrunner74, I don't mean to call you in particular out or keep fanning the flame here. It just gets my goat when people can't be happy for other people's success.
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