Ruthless Cynic wrote:I waited for three days constantly refreshing and had them in my cart... its a terrible feeling.
Cyberseven wrote:I honestly feel bad that a lot of members/fans missed out on these exclusives.
I was lucky and got my Bruticus before they sold out. Crap that was fast!!
What really bugs me is that due to the demand and unfortunate aftermarket seller greed, a lot, if not most of these were bought by retail and ebay folks looking to flip them for twice as much.
It kind of bothers me that these folks are taking advantage of fans that just really want a toy for their collection.
it is sad, but it is just a reality.
xyl360 wrote:Cyberseven wrote:I honestly feel bad that a lot of members/fans missed out on these exclusives.
I was lucky and got my Bruticus before they sold out. Crap that was fast!!
What really bugs me is that due to the demand and unfortunate aftermarket seller greed, a lot, if not most of these were bought by retail and ebay folks looking to flip them for twice as much.
It kind of bothers me that these folks are taking advantage of fans that just really want a toy for their collection.
it is sad, but it is just a reality.
I believe it should be illegal. HTS and all other retailers are not wholesalers, thus they are not supposed to be selling product through those retail channels to other resellers who turn around and sell it for a markup. The scalpers create a false scarcity/rarity to the products by purchasing them all, leaving consumers who actually intend to purchase the goods for themselves unable to buy the products through normal retail channels for retail prices.
It is technically against the law, but since these small ebay sellers are able to get away with doing what they do without a proper business license, there's nothing to be done about it.
it is nice to see that HTS had a 1 per household limit on Bruticus though. I'm sure it didn't help, as the scalpers are certainly smart enough to make multiple accounts/addresses to ship to (PO boxes I'm guessing), but it least it makes it a bit more of a challenge.
Either way, I'm not paying $250 for a $50 set that was already marked up to $100. The scalpers can keep the **** things at that price.
cybertornman wrote:xyl360 wrote:Cyberseven wrote:I honestly feel bad that a lot of members/fans missed out on these exclusives.
I was lucky and got my Bruticus before they sold out. Crap that was fast!!
What really bugs me is that due to the demand and unfortunate aftermarket seller greed, a lot, if not most of these were bought by retail and ebay folks looking to flip them for twice as much.
It kind of bothers me that these folks are taking advantage of fans that just really want a toy for their collection.
it is sad, but it is just a reality.
I believe it should be illegal. HTS and all other retailers are not wholesalers, thus they are not supposed to be selling product through those retail channels to other resellers who turn around and sell it for a markup. The scalpers create a false scarcity/rarity to the products by purchasing them all, leaving consumers who actually intend to purchase the goods for themselves unable to buy the products through normal retail channels for retail prices.
It is technically against the law, but since these small ebay sellers are able to get away with doing what they do without a proper business license, there's nothing to be done about it.
it is nice to see that HTS had a 1 per household limit on Bruticus though. I'm sure it didn't help, as the scalpers are certainly smart enough to make multiple accounts/addresses to ship to (PO boxes I'm guessing), but it least it makes it a bit more of a challenge.
Either way, I'm not paying $250 for a $50 set that was already marked up to $100. The scalpers can keep the **** things at that price.
you do realize that HTS has a limit of 1 per household. Even if people ordered multiple, HTS will manually cancell all duplicate orders. Unless of course, the scalpers went to the trouble of ordering with multiple addresses, multiple accounts and multiple credit cards.
Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:The only thing I really want is Cliffjumper, and I can wait for him at retail. The MLP would be nice for my daughter, but $20 for a $5 toy, ouch.
Am I the only one who thinks the Avengers Helicarrier looks like crap? I realize it can't be EXACTLY like the on-screen ship, but did the toy guys even SEE the movie? Two completely different things. And huge scale-fail w/ the included figures. Pass; hopefully they'll make a small-scale die-cast or something that looks like the one in the movie.
xyl360 wrote:Well, I totally missed it. I seem to recall this happening last year with SDCC Matrix Prime, but they brought up more stock in the days following it first coming up on HTS. It wouldn't surprise me if the same happened with Bruticus.
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
grimdragon2001 wrote:i called when i was having trouble with the website and they told me they will be going through all the orders looking for anything suspicious. i was also told they would give me a call if a chance at one of the canceled ones arose
Counterpunch wrote:FP sure does provide some F'd up head.
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