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Originally Posted by vespapilot79

One of my local shops has the Shock troopers going for 14.99, the arctic hiss for 30 and the best of 80s for 89 bucks!! Sucks that they hit every Ross, which we have two, the four targets and probably the 4-5 wal-marts and TRU. It makes me soo upset that I have to compete with them just to keep up to date with any of the new stuff coming out..I pretty much say the hell with army building any more. I feel lucky to have gotten six of the Shock Troopers. If I had the money id have bought them all when i saw them at the store just to spite them and sell them at cost to my fellow collectors. They had A jungle gun from Ross in the store the other day..Were they willing to sell it to me...Eff NO!! They were more concerned that they could get 25-50 bucks for the damn thing come christmas time!!WTF??They cant help out a customer that buys from them when they have something really cool? Hell i spent 11.99 on Low Light cuz the stores here dont have them yet..Yes they get orders directly from Hasbro..I didnt mind paying a few extra cuz i REALLY wanted Low Light. I plan on getting more as they come out in stores.. But come on really?? Do we as collectors have to unite against this tyranny and buy the crap so they and the scalpers dont get it and sell it to our fellow collectors at price or just a lil over to cover P&H? Has it really come down to this??

Well put vespapilot! You must live in the same town I do. I can almost duplicate every event you've just referenced. It's BS that a small group can hijack the hobby so they don't have to get a job. There's a comic store around the corner from the only TRU on this side of town. Don't bother going to TRU to see what their exclusives look like, because the jerk around the corner has them all sitting in his store. The key word in all of this is GREED! Hasbro makes a limited amount of product , to drive the market. Scalpers take advantage of that. And the rest of us get screwed. It's one thing if a store wants to sell vintage stuff and mark it up. That's where the focus of their attention should be. But not cleaning every peg at the Big Boxes and creating their own Monopoly. If you notice the scalpers always have the cool figures, but never have any of the crappy ones. Which brings me back to my original post, we hate scalpers, scalpers hate bad packaging.