Tyrant wrote:In the above situation, what did the employees expect? A small number of a hard to find (and I assume at the time valuable) item pop up in storage and they are all put out on the shelf in one day in a store that only sells that product (in other words, exaclty the kind of place a collector or specuator would go to look for such things). There are only a handful of outcomes to realistically expect. Most of them involve the item being gone very fast. It all comes down to how many people buy it up. Really, what else was going to happen there? If they wanted people to see them, put them in a display case. Otherwise, they work in a store that sells things and they are suprised that someone bought those things? Wow.
meeotch wrote:
I'm a Target employee. Target does not do price adjustments for Black Friday deals. Also, you have to know what items are on the sale with enough time to plan for it, and while I know that Target's ad was out a few days before Black Friday, they hadn't released the ad to aggregators weeks in advance like Wal Mart and Best Buy did.
kelano28 wrote: I don't really think 6 copies of a $50 set at once is a small amount, but that's just me..
kelano28 wrote:And the LEGO employees I know aren't at all surprised that people do this, in fact they are quite accustomed to it. But when they find sets in the back and DO put them in a display stand in the front of the store, they are hoping that a few people (kids, collectors, etc.) will get their lucky day and finally be able to pick the set up.
kelano28 wrote:Instead, the first person waiting around who sees the sets (often more than 6 by the way) runs in and buys every single one. Sure, LEGO makes their money and they sell their product, but the customers suffer because the availability is being compromised by greedy people who want to make a few hundred dollars instead of actually working for money and earning it.
kelano28 wrote:Let's face it, anyone can scalp, its not too difficult.
kelano28 wrote:As for a solution, simply get what is necessary and maybe doubles for trading later on I suppose. But don't buy up every set in the store with the intention of selling on ebay in a month's time. If everyone followed this rule, there wouldn't be so many unopened neglected sets out there collecting dust next to Nintendo Wii's.
kyphur wrote:It seems that the people upset by the problem of supply & demand are the ones who seem to think owning the sets they want is their right.
No it's not. You have the same chance as everyone else to get the sets while they're in production. We know about them months before they're released so stop buying cola for 3 months and save your change for the new sets.
There is no solution because the problem is fictious.
Tyrant wrote:kelano28 wrote:Let's face it, anyone can scalp, its not too difficult.
If there's only one thing I take from threads like this, it is that yes, it apparently is difficult to scalp. If anyone could do it, so many people wouldn't complain about it. Unless they are the type of people that just love to complain and not actually fix anything. =
ThinkingImpaired wrote:Tyrant wrote:kelano28 wrote:Let's face it, anyone can scalp, its not too difficult.
If there's only one thing I take from threads like this, it is that yes, it apparently is difficult to scalp. If anyone could do it, so many people wouldn't complain about it. Unless they are the type of people that just love to complain and not actually fix anything. =
Scalping is easy. You buy. You put away. You sell. The reason why not everyone does it is because not everyone is smart enough to do it.
wow. Ignorant much? Americans aren't the only ones complaining, they just outnumber the international members on the forum and thus end up with the majority of replies.I think Americans think that they are entitled to these things.
Solo wrote:It's not difficult, it's just a waste of time for the average fan. They've got better things to do than leach off their fellow collectors and they're not mad they can't do it themselves, they're mad mad someone else is doing it to them.
Solo wrote:I've got to say it, as much as you guys are claiming a clear conscience you're sure posting an awful lot trying to defend scalping. You're not going to sway anyone else's opinions so who are you really trying to convince here?
Solo wrote:Also,wow. Ignorant much? Americans aren't the only ones complaining, they just outnumber the international members on the forum and thus end up with the majority of replies.I think Americans think that they are entitled to these things.
bigospedros wrote:it's posts like that one from ufjason that make me wish I lived in the US !
Solo wrote:I was editing my reply as you posted so there's more there than when you read it.
But yes, leaching. You're stepping into an established market as an extra middleman to profit. Like I said before: you're still providing a service to the community, but at a cost. People don't like you for this. Deal with it. You think TRU cares that people are always complaining their prices are marked up?
onions wrote:tyrant you drone on and on replying with the same rhetoric. we get your point. seriously. you're not adding much else to the discussion beyond your initial post.
Solo wrote:I answered your question before you even asked it: the problem here is that people don't like scalpers. The only solution is to deal with it. The thread this was split from was asking why can't LEGO just rerelease sets that are in demand, and it died off because it's an absurd idea because it wouldn't be as profitable for them as making new ones.
Tyrant wrote:Thank you. I guess I should have clarified when I asked. What I mean is, in the view of the antiscalpers (sorry if no one agrees with that term), what is the problem? Not simply that they don't like scalpers, but what specifically is the issue and how do they believe it can be solved. I would personally like to discuss that, that's why I keep asking in the hopes that someone has an answer that isn't absurd (example of absurd, make LEGO free forever). I know they don't like scalpers and I know the basic reasons why. I just want to know what they think is the core of the problem and what can be done about it. I just seem to take giant walls of text to say that.
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