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Its stupid if you want a toy think ahead and bring enough money next time and if you dont have enough money leave it in its orginal found spot and give someone else a chance to buy it...........

preachin' to the choir brother

once you lose your one and only chance at one of the toys you'll see.

you wouldnt lose that chance if you brought enough money DUHHHHHHH hiding a toy is taking away that chance from someone

some people have to wait till payday which might just be the next day. dealers take away more chances then someone hiding one toy.

Scott792 wrote:Its stupid if you want a toy think ahead and bring enough money next time and if you dont have enough money leave it in its orginal found spot and give someone else a chance to buy it...........

It is a bit of a piss off, especially considering how hard I've searched for Bumblebee lately and realized that he's probably been in one of the stores but hidden. (He's just that kinda figure...)

However, I can understand why some do it, especially when Wal-Mart terminated their layaway service. (How friggin' stupid.) plus it's not always possible to have the money at any given time. (I'm sure you went shopping for groceries, happened to go by the toy department and there's a new figure...)

Still, I agree that bogarting the figure isn't cool, but if it's ever found by employees, gives you a second chance at getting it.

I have to agree with the fact that if your going to look for something, you should bring money. Otherwise your like teasing yourself, or, by hiding, ruining it for someone else.

That's because there is a general "It's all about me" attitude permeating a seemingly large percentage of our population. The person who is hidng the toy is looking out for himself (let's be fair, or herself).

This is compounded by the fact that the victim (he who cannot find the toy) is largely a nameless, faceless victim to the person hiding the toy. It is too easy not to care.

get the dealers to stop buying everything and I'm sure no one will have to hide anything again.

Sorry, but I have hidden many a treasure. That is the reason why I have many of the figures I do today. It's a free country, the way I look at it, I found it first you should have got there sooner so my no money havin ass didn't hide it before you got there. Besides, if I DID have the money you would have been out of luck then too, because I was there first. So, get there first.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:That's because there is a general "It's all about me" attitude permeating a seemingly large percentage of our population. The person who is hidng the toy is looking out for himself (let's be fair, or herself).

This is compounded by the fact that the victim (he who cannot find the toy) is largely a nameless, faceless victim to the person hiding the toy. It is too easy not to care.

I coudn't have said it any better.

Yesterday I found a '74 BB hidden in the Hot Wheels area by accident. Since I already have one, I put him back in the TF section. Ain't I a stinker.

not everything is hidden either. sometihngs get picked up carried around then dumped.

Kadmon Prime wrote:Sorry, but I have hidden many a treasure. That is the reason why I have many of the figures I do today. It's a free country, the way I look at it, I found it first you should have got there sooner so my no money havin ass didn't hide it before you got there. Besides, if I DID have the money you would have been out of luck then too, because I was there first. So, get there first.

Thanks for helping to illustrate my point.

Kadmon Prime wrote:Sorry, but I have hidden many a treasure. That is the reason why I have many of the figures I do today. It's a free country, the way I look at it, I found it first you should have got there sooner so my no money havin ass didn't hide it before you got there.

The United States may be a free country, but that still doesn't make it right. Also, even in a free nation, there are rules to abide to, even unwritten ones such as ethics and ettiquite. I won't bother with those details since they are too much of an inconvenience to so many these days, sadly.

I guess I'm an odd duck since my thinking is simply, if I didn't bring the money, I'm SOL. Let some one else have a chance to get it.

On the flip side, there was only a couple of times I have "hidden" a figure (oh the confession!). But that is simply because I needed to go to the bank (I had no ATM card back then) to withdraw funds. Both times, the figure was found by someone else. They earned it. I never did it again since.

Besides, if I DID have the money you would have been out of luck then too, because I was there first. So, get there first.

True, but if you're there first, and don't have the money, it's SOL for you because you SHOULD have had the money. The "IF I can't have it, no one can" mentality isn't a healthy one, but what do I know...nothing I suppose.

They're just toys. I'd rather kids have them than ebay scalpers, generally.

I don't mind people hiding figures as long as they don't hide it halfway across the store. I have hidden a figure or two but I always hide them somewhere close by the TF section. Usually even in the TF section. If people don't dig around and find it that's to bad if they do and I lose it fair enough. Heck the furthest away I have ever hidden a figure is the other side of the aisle. And someone did find that one.

99.9 % of the reason people hide toys is because of stupid scalpers who walk into target, tru or walmart and buy every single one of particular type of toy that has been talked about one website like this one. Good example of this is 09 bumblebee and deluxe arcee they goto every store in town and buy tons of them then they go on ebay and a bunch of other auction sites and sell them of double maybe even triple the price. You can say well you don't have to buy them from them and that will teach them a leason and they will stop doing that. But there is always that 1% that will buy from them forcing the rest of us the people who do look long and hard for these figures to hide them in order to get ahold of them.

I never hide figs. If I don't have the money and I know I really want it, I'll find a way to get it. Even if I have to use a credit card that is getting close to being maxed out. Now when I do have the money, I'll look all over for figs cause I know ppl hide stuff and I'm pretty good at finding figs. when hidden in the toy section.

I usually hide toys for other people. I'm always on the lookout for my friends, so if I find something that someone else is looking for, I'll call 'em up and say, "Hey, you'd better get your ass down here and grab this. It's behind the Dora crap." Other than that, I really don't care if other people hide toys. It's all a part of the hunt. Besides, haven't you ever gotten any enjoyment out of finding something hidden, even if you weren't looking for it, just to put it back where it belongs? I know I have.

I have found some pretty sweet figs thanks to those that hide the stuff.

Thanks for being broke guys!

I found a Bumblebee somebody tried to hide and bought it, but I did leave them a Brawl

Sportimus Prime wrote:Yesterday I found a '74 BB hidden in the Hot Wheels area by accident. Since I already have one, I put him back in the TF section. Ain't I a stinker.

Haha. I SO enjoy doing that too! Would so love to see the face of the selfish bugger who hid it there when he comes back to get it!

I never hide the toys away from people, I think it is unfair for others, this is why so many toys are put in other places because of damn selfish people. They say good things come to those who wait... works for me

I've never hid anything... I never have money problems and I don't think it's right to hide something anyway. Whoever finds the item (in the right spot) and has the money to get it first should have it.

I also don't think scalpers should exist on silly things like toys... They should impose some sort of max 2 of a figure per customer. Of course there'll still be ways around it, but it might help some.

its obviously this:

Its miiiineeee!!!!! no one else!!!! ill hide it so tath nooo one can seee it then piss off while i know where it is and then go back and buy it cuz i didnt had enough money!!! muahahahahahaha!!!!!!

kinda long but most probably the main reason...

I don't see a problem with toy hiding...as someone stated earlier, I'll either hide a toy for a friend (ala Voyager Blackout), or for myself because payday is one day away, and only have enough to get a VITAL item (like, say, a car battery...).

First come, first served, no matter the situation...

Oh, and Kadmon Prime, sig'd for hilarity and truth.