A Good Scalper Story

I'm at work on Sunday when I get paged to take a call for the manager. There's a woman on the phone that says,

"I talked to one of your employees and she told me you have 31 NBA 'figurines' in stock. I've been on the road for over an hour and I want you to get all the cases and have them ready when I come in."

Well, now. The cases are buried in the back I say and it make take awhile.

"That's fine", she says. " I have to have some of those 'dolls' and I don't care how long it takes you, just find them !! I'll buy all three cases. My name is Angel and I'm on the way."

So, this young woman shows up with her Grateful Dead bandana wearing boyfriend. I get out the cases and she goes,

" I sure do love seeing that McFarlane logo on those boxes."

Then her expression quickly turns sour as she yells.

"These boxes have already been opened !!"

No shit, bitch. I actually love that logo more than you do, and I'm not going to scalp the 'figurines' !!!

She left everything in the middle of the aisle and left empty handed.

If she had a clue she's know that if there are 12 in a case and we have 31, some are already gone.

Oh, I also love pulling variants aside for a few days and hiding them from first day scalpers and then putting them out on the pegs so someone can just 'stumble onto them'.

hahaha fuck that bitch
go make some cookies or somthin'

I love you Sculpy! [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Sculpey - you are now my hero

Todd should make a line of 'figurines' based on our descriptions of the scalpers we have delt with.

Monsters Series 7
"SCALPERS"

Bob: "The Blob"
Helen: "The Hag"
Frankie: "The Fanboy"
Bill: "E-bay Bill"
and a box set with a scalper and 2 crying kids.

Each sclper would come with an mini unopended Box of Mcfarlane toys and one MOC scale fig of a Hard to find figure from a diffrent line.

The box set comes with sound chip in sclper that says "you snooze yuo lose"

LOL Guyver!!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Great work Sculpey! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Good one Guyver!

I'd pay for that!

You rule sculp! It's too bad you can't humiliate them in the middle of the store. Like point and laugh and call them pathetic scalpers.

RIGHT ON, SCULP!!! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

What a dumb bitch! [img]cool.gif[/img]

moahahaha..thats the spirit sculpy..dont let them win [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

sculpey, you're my hero!

give me a hug! [img]eek.gif[/img]

I said hug me dammit!

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I didn't know if he was a scalper or honest collector

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...does it matter? I mean, really...if you don't have the money for something, tough luck. That's just the way it goes. *shrug*

Pappette and Sculptress: [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

I LOVE YOU MAN!!!*sniff*
Would you come out here and work at my TRU please?

Good to see not everyone who works at TRU are assholes. I have that problem up here.

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 07, 2004 05:10 PM: Message edited by: Spliff ]</font>

This example of wise conduct and noble leadership is the reason I wrote Sculpey in for President.

Sculpey: [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Those assholes. [img]graemlins/grrr.gif[/img]

I say we form a group and hunt down all these scalpers and kick their butts and take their stuff. Of course we'd have to pay original price for them at least can't steal stuff, it's just not ethical.

Sculpey, they are just sports figures so go ahead and scalp them! [img]wink.gif[/img]

heh...most of the people who come in to gamestop looking for figs are sports pick scalpers.

had one guy the other night who I couldn't tell if he was a scalper, or a collector.

we have a policy that we cannot hold anything for more than two or three hours. One guy came in, found some sort of baseball figure variant, and asked the manager to hold it until the next morning. Manager says no.

Guy comes up to me and tries to get me to hide the figure behind the counter until the next morning. I also tell him no. He spots the manager going into the back room and says "quick, he's gone, put it behind the counter before he gets back! You don't understand...I HAVE TO HAVE THIS FIGURE!"

I told him that the manager would notice the figure back there, I'd get into trouble if I put it aside for him, and besides that, I wasn't working the next morning. The manager would be.

The guy stashed it behind some other figures and said "thanks for all your help" in a really sarcastic tone as he left. I was tempted to buy the figure myself just to spite him (or hide it in the back for a few weeks), but as I didn't know if he was a scalper or honest collector, I figured it wouldn't be fair to do that.

Nicely done, Sculp. I have to wonder how many other stores she hits up on a regular basis.

What'd be interesting... you coulda sealed a bunch of surplus Van Helsing stuff into empty Sports Picks boxes for her. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Tortricidae:
"quick, he's gone, put it behind the counter before he gets back! You don't understand...I HAVE TO HAVE THIS FIGURE!"

I told him that the manager would notice the figure back there

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">"b-but these stores must have a hidden counter shelf that no manager could possibly know about! PLEASE!"

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 08, 2004 01:20 AM: Message edited by: Cemetery Man ]</font>