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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

It's actually a company policy, but it's enforcement will vary from store to store. This is to help mostly with headaches like partial cases and loss prevention during inventory season. Employees however are often secret shopped at most large retailers as a part of their evaluation, and are often encouraged to check stockrooms for items as a part of the secret shopper process, so it becomes moot point.

Some stores however will catch on to certain practices of collectors and scalpers through customer complaints however, and will more strongly enforce these rules for certain items deemed "collectibles" (such as action figures and Funko Pops) as well as hot items (like the Hatchimals craze a year or two ago.) Employees who happen to know or be collectors or scalpers are also a problem of course, and if customers complain and stores catch onto it, it can also force more strict policies into place. My local Targets actually had signs posted in their toy aisles for over a year and stuck to it, due to local scalpers doing their business right out in front of the store in the parking lot during the Star Wars seasons, many of who either had friends or family members working in stores helping them out.




This very much. I feel everyone's pain when it comes to not finding what they're looking for, but the brickseek updates and phantom empty handed stocking reports are getting really repetitive.

These figures can be all found online through many of the e-tailers (which have gotten better at stocking individual figures for each wave now...provided you pre-order.) A great deal of them can also be found now on eBay, at very minimal mark-up, especially if you are buying loose. Unless you are trying to build a BAF or are a MOC collector, there's always alternatives, unless you REALLY enjoy burning gas, dealing with traffic, wasting time and being let down by your local retailers.

Dorkside usually always puts out each figure at individual pricing the minute they come in. After that, then they some times don't reup them til a few weeks or so later.

Here in south florida TRU stores suck ass big time. I honestly don't bother with them anymore because they're such a major letdown. A friend of mine in Ohio found a Klaw/Shuri two pack today and grabbed it for me.

Targets are also normally letdowns too. I was at one yesterday, they had a few different legends but nothing i was looking for. OH and absolutely nothing with the name marvel legends on the boxes were on sale. They were all regular price including space iron man from the very first GOTG wave and those pesky white tiger,misty knight, and female beetle figures... who the hell would pay full price for those ?