TARGET’S SUMMER GEEK-OUT - THE SCALPING INDUSTRY IS IN SHAMBLES!
BREAKING NEWS:
TARGET’S SUMMER GEEK-OUT - THE SCALPING INDUSTRY IS IN SHAMBLES!
Over the last few days, Target held its Summer Geek-Out event, where the would sell various items from their ‘Collector’s Spot’ selection. This is an event aimed at us, the toy collectors, where they had many highly sought-after items back in stock. One specific thing caught the entire toy community’s attention, as they announced that all the G.I.Joe Classified Series Cobra Island figures (you know, the Target exclusive ones…the ones we poke fun at on a regular basis!) would be back up for order.
I like the “Last chance” part, basically saying “It’s on you if you don’t get them!”
Needless to say, thousands of Joe fans rushed to Target’s website/app to try to get their order in (and obviously, it didn’t go without any issue, and people reported getting error messages when adding items to their cart, but it seems that it was ironed out pretty fast and tons of collectors managed to secure their order). On wednesday morning, at 9am EST (6am PST lol), the Cobra Island Roadblock, Beachhead, Firefly, Cobra trooper and the likes found their way back on Target’s website, and on thursday morning at the same time, the Baroness set and the Cobra Viper were available for all to order. So, if you are in the west side of the US, and one of your colleagues looked tired on wednesday and thursday, you now know why!
This chain of event had huge ramifications on the scalping industry, which had used the Target exclusive G.I.Joe Classified series figures as their bread and butter for the past year…
Sure… They killed the line by enabling people to buy them.
An anonymous member of the S.C.A.L.P. commented: “How could they do that to us? You don’t understand! It was going so well, we had a network of Target employees getting us entire boxes of them, so that we could resell them at 4-5 times the retail price. And now, it’s all ruined! People will be able to get those figures at a normal price. When you add that to the fact there were no Comic Con the last 2 years for us to snag the exclusives from and make a mint from them, we may never recover financially from this. We will have to start a GoFundMe page for scalpers…”
And of course, the toy community delivered some great toy memes. Here are a few great ones:
Bill Moore on Facebook
The almighty @chaztheguru on instagram
And of course, as a community, we have to give credit where credit is due, and on behalf of all the people that managed to get their Cobra Island figures, after being patient and not giving in to the scalper prices:
@chaztheguru
Can anyone check on the few people that listed Cobra Island figures a few days ago at scalper prices? Are they ok?
More news at 11:00… Yo Joe June, now in July!
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