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Originally Posted by The_Return
A nice, cheery way to usher in your return to the forum...
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Oh yea. Thats how I roll. But seriously I hate black friday for just this reason.
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Originally Posted by Despare
Didn't the story say they ripped the doors off the hinges AFTER the store opened?
"When the doors opened, all hell broke loose," a law enforcement source told The Post."
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I haven't heard that, but that doesn't mean that them breaking them open isn't what they are talking about in that quote. And would it really surprise you if they did bust down the doors? I'll agree that it was the people on both sides of the doors' fault though.
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Originally Posted by The Flayed One
When I used to sell toys, comics etc, I heard stories about this kind of shit all of the time.
Yes, I was one of the horrible people who went to the store at 3am when the toys were stocked and bought most of the good ones. However, if I had a cart full of toys and walked by a kid who wanted one, I'd always give it to them to buy. It used to sicken me when I'd go there in the afternoons. There'd be a bunch of mercs (I knew a lot of them) waiting with me, along with families. The store employee would come out with new cases of Star Wars and open them up. Most of the bastards would take off with whatever good toys they could get. I'd grab a bunch, and then make sure to ask the kids there what they were looking for. If I had it in my cart, I'd give it to them to buy. I have no problem selling to regular collectors for increased prices. That's how the business works: I was selling a service. Basically, I was willing to get up and go to the store for them at any hour, and they paid me extra for the effort.
I would never, EVER pass up handing one to a child. I don't care if I could have made $70 bucks off of it.
Every year, there was always some new hot toy people were getting mugged for in the parking lots. Some crazy thing that grown men and women would go to any lengths to get. Breaking into stores and homes for Tickle Me Elmos. I once had a guy give me his $200 trench coat and $50 cash for a Sleep N Snore Ernie. People can be fucking rediculous. A hobby is a hobby, and it's nice to be able to get the hard to come by piece. Then some asshole has to hold a knife to a working mother and take the Beanie Baby she just bought her daughter, and it becomes a sickness. Just like anything else.
So pay $3,000 if you must for your PS3 the day it comes out. I may call you an asshat, but you're not hurting anyone but yourself. Just don't take it out on someone else because your lifestyle or general laziness means you lost the first come, first serve war. If you didn't get it, you can wait like everyone else or pay the gauged price if you feel the need
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I bet that if you find a toy that went on sale this morning for the first time, its allready on ebay too.
11-28-2008, 08:04 PM
