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07-29-2008, 04:24 PM | #21 |
Gunslinger
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It sucks to come face to face with a scalper, but what can you do. Supply and demand means that if someone has something you want, then he/she can charge you as much as you're willing to pay for it. The only defense is to shop early, shop often.
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07-29-2008, 04:28 PM | #22 |
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Like others have said, he could have been a collector, who maybe, just doesn't have social skills. Lord knows I'm like that sometimes BTW, witnessing a scalping is seeing someone grab a whole peg worth of Target exclusive Star Wars Clone masks (The crappy ones kids wear, not the full head ones) and dump them into his cart. Who wants those things anyway? |
07-29-2008, 04:32 PM | #23 |
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07-29-2008, 04:34 PM | #24 |
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I'm a bit confused to how this is a horror story. And if it is indeed a horror story shouldn't it have been written by the old man who was terrified by 2 younger guys he may have felt was chasing him?
If anything this is a story about how you just missed out on getting what you needed and the old guy beat you to it. Was he a scalper? Who knows? He might have just been into these figures as much as we are, or even like someone else said he was buying them for his grandkids. I don't like scalpers as much as the next guy does, but if he was that old maybe he really needs the money. I would hate to have some kids follow me around the store when I'm 70 and I'm still into toys. If I had a cane I would have used it like Yoda did to take that lantern from R2. "When 70 years old you reach, fat and balding, look as good you will not!"
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07-29-2008, 04:36 PM | #25 |
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Just shake it off, man.
It stinks that you (or even the rest of us here) didn't get to them first, but whatever he was going to do with them is of no consequence. I missed out on w9 by about an hour 4 weeks ago cos I was watching Spectacular Spiderman and Transformers Animated. My fault. And another member on this board stopped at a KM that I passed by last Friday cos I was late for dinner with my wife, and he found a black Timber SE on. the. peg. there. Had I stopped or gotten there earlier, maybe it would have been mine. Instead of fuming about my bad luck, I congratulated him on a post here. And I got a blue CC and a black CC on HTS yesterday. I am sure no one holds hard feelings toward me for buying them. Have a Coke and a smile, and good luck next time. And thank your friend for being cool. |
07-29-2008, 04:46 PM | #26 |
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07-29-2008, 04:46 PM | #27 |
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Two words...
Tranq gun. |
07-29-2008, 05:00 PM | #28 |
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I have two rules when it comes to snagging new figures in the wild:
Rule #1: if a little kid is there before, or even after you, they get first dibs since these are toys and made for them anyways. You can always go somewhere else, while going to the toy aisle in Wal-mart or Target is a big event for them. Rule #2: If someone's there before you, then you're SOL and have to stand there and wait until they're done. Two grown men slugging it out over plastic army men in the middle of Toys R Us is a sure sign of the apocalypse.
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07-29-2008, 05:05 PM | #29 |
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I have two rules when it comes to snagging new figures in the wild:
Rule #1: if a little kid is there before, or even after you, they get first dibs since these are toys and made for them anyways. You can always go somewhere else, while going to the toy aisle in Wal-mart or Target is a big event for them. Rule #2: If someone's there before you, then you're SOL and have to stand there and wait until they're done. Two grown men slugging it out over plastic army men in the middle of Toys R Us is a sure sign of the apocalypse. Rule #2 check, with the exception of obvious scalpers then mass slaughter is OK by me. |
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