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Originally Posted by Darth Cujo
Oh I understood the point. But that logic unfortunately still feeds the scalpers.
I also agree that limits would help. But they can be circumvented. Big picture is that the stores dont care who buys, as long as the items sell. I just go without rather than buy from third party sellers. I wont run around all over the place to get stuff either. And with covid I miss out a lot more. But I'm also patient and play the long game. Usually it works out in the long run.
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Limits would help but stores and Hasbro would never do that cause they don't give a damn who buys as long as it sells. The entire North American collector ecosystem is just hilariously broken compared to the Japanese collector ecosystem. Distributors actually care there by making retailers set limits on figures depending on the popularity of a line and exclusivity of a figure. Due to this scalpers don't really exist over there. It's too bad Hasbro and other distributors don't care enough to follow suit and would rather continue to promote toxicity in the North American collecting culture.
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Originally Posted by Wheelwave
Tried calling the farthest Walmart that showed 12 Mando Troopers in stock. Apparently someone else called around the same time as me and they apparently they put all 12 on hold for the other guy. This isn't fair!
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Yeah it definitely isn't fair at all. Can't do much though when the retailers and Distributors only care about money and not the consumer that gives them it.
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Originally Posted by Bman82
you are probably right but his point is that he didn't have to run around like an idiot from store to store in order to do that.. instead the scalper is the idiot that ran around wasting 2-3 hrs of his time + gas and all you had to do is pay him $10 HAHAHA.. sounds good to me.
What will really help with this is limiting purchases.. do you think some scalper could walk out with 12 ahsokas if the limit was 2? sure there are ways around it but atleast they would have to work for it.
i know some TRU in my area had a limit on the GE figs and were even asking for ID. From what i understood they were limiting per day. So you could get 2 today and 2 tomorrow but not more then 2 in one day. This system atleast allows for more people to get their hands on figures and scalpers would have a hard time clearing out stores...
there are so many ways to limit buying and prevent scalping but they just don't all seem to want to implement it.
For standard figures i don't think its needed but for exclusives it should be made standard that there is a limit of 2 per customer.
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Like I said in my other post if Hasbro and other distributors started implementing measures like the Japanese collector market does to prevent scalping we wouldn't have this problem. Instead they just sit back despite knowing this is a BIG problem and continue to count fat stacks of cash. They clearly don't care about the consumer, I don't know why people(including myself) continue to keep throwing money at them they don't deserve.
