Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[bandonov]

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:

[turner]

Weird...

[Stealth Viper]

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.

[bandonov]

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.

[Stealth Viper]

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.

[Redmao]

Oh great... repackers up here too now?

[akpayne]

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.

[Pete The Greek]

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. 

[bandonov]

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.

[Raptor]

Note that there are accessories also missing from the packaging.

- 

[turner]

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.

[Realboss]

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.