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General Section => General Joe Talk => Topic started by: bandonov on April 16, 2010, 08:44:52 AM

Title: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: bandonov on April 16, 2010, 08:44:52 AM
I was at the TRU at Markville Mall and noticed that one of the Arctic Threat Shipwreck packages had a Nano Viper in it instead and a Arctic Threat Doc with Charbroil instead.  There was only one of these and double check the package to see if it was resealed but they were not, it was a factory mistake.  See for yourselves:

(http://http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz140/bandonov/Misc/IMG00007-20100415-2044.jpg)
(http://http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz140/bandonov/Misc/IMG00008-20100415-2045.jpg)
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: turner on April 16, 2010, 09:12:28 AM
Weird...
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Stealth Viper on April 16, 2010, 09:32:23 AM
Not weird.

You have a figure swapper in the area.

Likely, the person bought $5 joes at Walmart or Zellers, then bought the TRU exclusives at $10 each at TRU, swapped the figures out for the $5 ones and returned them to get their money back at TRU, therefore getting the TRU exclusives for $5 each.

I hate these buggers. Happens more often in the US, but I've seen it before here in Canada as well.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: bandonov on April 16, 2010, 09:35:26 AM
Really?  I did not inspect the package with a microscope to see if was resealled but it looked like factory to me.  Damn that would suck if people did swap out figures like that.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Stealth Viper on April 16, 2010, 09:51:57 AM
Quote from: "bandonov"
Damn that would suck if people did swap out figures like that.


People do. They can be really good at resealing too.

I can tell you with 99.9% confidence that that is what you are dealing with.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Redmao on April 16, 2010, 10:10:12 AM
Oh great... repackers up here too now?
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: akpayne on April 16, 2010, 10:15:18 AM
I have also seen this more recently in Candain ToysRus.
However I knowingly purchased the figure.  It was a 25th version blue cobra soldier with rifle in a Night Adder package.
However about 4 months ago, my wife brought me home the ROC Para-Viper, but it was swapped out for 25th version of the Para-Viper. All of the accessories were there but it still sucked.

I hate figure swappers, if you can't afford the hobby stealing is not an option.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Pete The Greek on April 16, 2010, 10:21:41 AM
No way that's a factory mistake.  It's a figure swapper's piece of work.  They probably bought the swapped figures for 5 bucks at Zellers or Wal-Mart, so they wouldn't have to spent another 5 bucks.  So sad and lame.

What pisses me off more that this TRU will become my local one very soon. 
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: bandonov on April 16, 2010, 10:37:29 AM
Wow this was my first time I saw this and did not know it was a huge problem in the JOE universe.  I was going to buy these thinking that they were factory mistakes but I have over 170 RoC figures so far and I wife would have killed me.  I'm glad I did not go with my gut and buy them.   Thanks everyone for the heads up on this distrubing trend.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Raptor on April 16, 2010, 10:41:26 AM
Note that there are accessories also missing from the packaging.

-  :chicken:
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: turner on April 16, 2010, 12:52:15 PM
Saw a dvd pack 2 the other day that had been swapped with the version one 25th lady jaye and first cobra 5 pack destro.  I started to get it, cause I don't have a loose version 1 jaye, but it didn't have the gun/javelin launcher.
Title: Re: Wrong Joes in new RoC Packaging
Post by: Realboss on April 22, 2010, 06:47:45 PM
The worst swap I saw was at a Big K(Kmart) in Florida.  Someone swapped the 25th ann. Beige(leatherneck)A.W.E. Striker for some dollar store jeep.   
The first time I saw a swapped item was a few years back, a Star Wars commemorative tin set had all of it's stormtroopers pillaged and swapped with Lukes.   

Sad, that people resort to this.