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07-04-2010, 09:15 AM | #1 |
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It's been awile sense I posted here.
I stopped collecting for a while because I thought the movie stuff was going to be the future of GI joe. But then when Hasbro showed off the Pursuit of Cobra Line they sold me on again. I guess they finally answered my wishes. The good news is that this new POC line looks really awesome. I just hope Hasbro dosen't pull the plug on it. But the bad news is that it also attracts scalpers. I already found the Wolf Hound at a Toys r us in my area but I didn't see the Hiss v5 or the wave 1 figs. My guess is the scalpers beat me to them. I was wondering if were all going to be competing w/ the scalpers again in the POC line just like we did in the 25th line. Because I think the scalpers didn't really scalp up the movie line, because I see the movie line stuff everywere, I even saw it a Target on the endcaps on clearance for $0.88 cents thats right $0.88 cents. What Hasbro needs to do is bump up production and make enough to go around in the first place so we all can get ahold of it. I just hope it sells well so the stores can order more cases. I just hope it doesn't be like the 25th line a store will only order 1 or 2 cases. Then what we have here is a bad case of Supply and Demand but in are case it would be a Demand and Supply. Or is the scalpers are just going to be after the rare stuff like store exclusives, variants and army builders and figures that you only get 1 in every case or 1 in every 3 cases. Because, I already heard that in wave 1, the Cobra Commander is going to be really really hard to find and the Alley Viper also because he's a troop builder. And if the scalpers find out the info about this and then when they get ahold of the figs, then WATCH-OUT. E-bay is going to become Evil again. Last edited by lldjslim; 07-04-2010 at 12:32 PM.. |
07-04-2010, 09:38 AM | #2 |
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It could be that a regular customer bought it before you got to the store.
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07-04-2010, 09:43 AM | #3 |
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That's my feeling as well. Anytime something first hits the store they will be snatched quickly by both collectors and scalpers. Also, It's my belief that each TRU only got 1 of each if any at all.
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07-04-2010, 09:43 AM | #4 |
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I'm sure the scalpers are going to sit this one out. We'll never see POC common figures on Ebay at four and five times the cost.
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07-04-2010, 10:10 AM | #5 |
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Nobody's reported the wave 1 figures being out at retail yet. TRU only seems to have gotten in the POC bravo vehicles, and one of each at that. So it's likely that some other collector just bought the HISS tank, and left the Wolf Hound, like I did when I saw them at my TRU.
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07-04-2010, 10:30 AM | #6 |
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yeah wave 1 has not been released and vehicles are limited in release right now,as far as i know the cc will be 1 per case so if you hunt hard enough you will get him and alley viper,its all about tenacity,want it more then them and you'll get it
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07-04-2010, 10:37 AM | #7 |
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I actually Got lucky and went to 3 toys R us and 1 out of the three had 2 Hiss tanks, and 2 of the wolf Hound I end up buying all of them and this was at like 3pm on a saturday. So I would think it's all just a matter of luck I could be wrong but to think scalpers would not already know about this line I think is really hard to believe for myself. If they are any Good at their "job" they are already memebers of fourms like these
I do agree it will be interesting to see just how well stocked these figures are when they hit, and just how long it will take to find as many as we all want to find of all these figures. |
07-04-2010, 10:39 AM | #8 |
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Best I could see on eBay right now - 2 HISS 5 and 1 Wolfhound.
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07-04-2010, 10:58 AM | #9 |
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07-04-2010, 11:00 AM | #10 |
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It's been awile sense I posted here.
I stopped collecting for a while because I thought the movie stuff was going to be the future of GI joe. But then when Hasbro showed off the Pursuit of Cobra Line they sold me on again. I guess they finally answered my wishes. The good news is that this new this POC line looks really awesome. I just hope Hasbro dosen't pull the plug on it. But the bad news is that it also attracts scalpers. I already found the Wolf Hound at a Toys r us in my area but I didn't see the Hiss v5 or the wave 1 figs. My guess is the scalpers beat me to them. I was wondering if were all going to be competing w/ the scalpers again in the POC line just like we did in the 25th line. Because I think the scalpers didn't really scalp up the movie line, because I see the movie line stuff everywere, I even saw it a Target on the endcaps on clearance for $0.88 cents thats right $0.88 cents. What Hasbro needs to do bump up production and make enough to go around in the first place so we all can get ahold of it. I just hope it sells well so the stores can order more cases. I just hope it doesn't be like the 25th line a store will only order 1 or 2 cases. Then what we have here is a bad case of Supply and Demand but in are case it would be a Demand and Supply. Or is the scalpers are just going to be after the rare stuff like variants and army builders and figures that you only get 1 in every case or 1 in every 3 cases. Because, I already heard that in wave 1, the Cobra Commander is going to be really really hard to find and the Alley Viper also because he's a troop builder. And if the scalpers find out the info about this and then when they get ahold of the figs, then WATCH-OUT. E-bay is going to become Evil again. They aren't mass released yet. In fact-they were released a lil earlier than anticipated. There is a lot of hype among a collectors re: this part of the line esp the new HISS tank. Chill ax- Take a pill- And keep searching. If you put as much effort into looking as you did posting about how everyone getting new stuff before you is a scalper, then you will find everything you want. |
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