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Originally Posted by flipwilson

In the toy world, a scalper is someone who beats you to the punch, when in reality, it's always the early bird gets the worm.

VERY TRUE INDEED!!! Do forget so called "scalpers" have the money for sure. Otherwise, they could not buy up all those hot items.

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Originally Posted by sabretoothe

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.

The kid put bumblebee back on the shelf. Kid should have kept in his hands. Proceed to parents to put in their shopping cart. That guy did not snatch it out of the kid's hands. I could see if he did that then different story.

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Originally Posted by omega145

I dont buy into any of this to be honest with you. If most of these people on this forum found a figure that was extremely valuable, they'd either trade it for value of what it is going for or sell it at that price. A lot of the forum members here hunt for items and will buy double to sell or trade the other so calling someone a scalper when you may indeed do the same thing isnt necessarily fair. If you stumbled upon 5 regular Visions at a store or 5 xforce Warpath would you not buy them all? Wouldnt this be considered scalping even if you are picking them up for trade bait or selling them for double profit, 20 bucks even though they are going for me? Come on, lets all be realistic about this.
I can usually never find any new items because everything is gone but im not going to cry about how the scalpers bought everything up when in the end, its the kids who are actually buying them to collect or play with that are missing out.

Man, you hit the nail tight on. Anyone who collects/sells/trades knows what value is. They would be FOOLISH to leave behind any items that could help them fund hobby or other things.

We can use baseball, basketball, football cards as examples. Would anyone in their right leave behind rookie cars, first issues, limited editions ??? HELL NO. Micheal Jordon, Shaq, Kobe, Lebron, steve Young, Dan Marino, etc.... The list goes on and on. Would these be left behind??? HELL NO.