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Originally Posted by Augustus10

If they are going to keep using trash Target... they need to require Target to use multiple capta to slow down the bots.

Sadly they have no say in what Target does in their stores or on the website. But I really don't see what Hasbro gains from giving Target exclusives if its going to result in this much hatred and anger from the collecting community. I know they say its an incentive reward for the chain to order a higher quantity of product, but if its a extremely popular selling line, Target would be foolish NOT to order enough to supply in their stores anyway. Right now both Walmart and Target barely have any peg space for this line... just 1-2 pegs for a tiny little space compared to other toy lines that are clearly pegwarming. Anytime you go to either store, they are usually empty and sold out of even the regular mass retail Joe figures.

So with the apparent underestimated demand of this line, Hasbro doesn't need to incentivize Target or Walmart to order greater supply than they are already willing to order by giving them limited quantity exclusives like this.

I wish Hasbro would take the NECA route and just go back on whatever agreement they had with the retailers and offer these exclusives thru Pulse as well since clearly Target is unwilling to prevent scalper bots from ordering their entire inventory. NECA recognized the ongoing issue and did right by their customers with the TMNT line by offering most of this year's exclusives for "made to order" preorders on their site when Walmart and Target couldn't get their act together. Hasbro needs to do the same!