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the worst act of scalping was something i witnessed whilst i worked at target. it happened right around when the first transformers movie came out and bumblebee was going for some coin, $35-45. i had just stocked the toy aisle some transformers and in that restock was three bumblebee toys. i was walking around the area finishing up when i saw a kid walking around wit one in his hand, i thought "finally a kid got one" because we were getting calls all the time for when we would get bumblebee toys from parents. then i saw mr scalper, this guy already was a pain in the ass, he'd try to get stock people to sell him stuff before the street date and would try multiple times during the day to try and get one of "new" employees to do it for him, coming up with a different story each time to try to get his hands on a case of what ever that was not officially released yet.. the guy is a dick. anyway i spot him cruising the transfomer section with a cart of every bumblebee in every size with his eyes locking in on what this kid has in his hands. the kid puts it down on the shelf to go get his mom and within 3 seconds the guy grabs it, drops it in his cart and makes a mad rush for the check out, while the kid is all excited saying "mommy i found one!". i was floored. i mean that takes a certain level of douchebag to take from a child. kid comes back and starts crying when he can't find it, i went ahead and called all the other targets and found one and had it sent to our store. told my coworkers what happened and they were about as pissed off as i was. the following day when the kid and parent showed up we had assembled the entire so that the kid could pick out which one he wanted. his eyeballs exploded.
anyhoo the scalper guy got himself a nince rep at my store so everytime we had something he asked for it either we wouldn't sell it to him.