Not Happy w/ Target

[SMC]

so, im on the hunt for the target exclusive star wars wave. i dont really care about cody, c3p0 and rex, as i already have them. i was able to pick up bossk and biggs yesterday from a different target, so i just need teebo, snow and shock trooper.

I go to target on my lunch break today, and see that they only have regular SW muggs out (no exclusives). so i pick up a mace and scan him. Whoo Hoo! a box in the stock room!!! so i ask the nearest employee if they can pull the box form me. they tell me that i have to ask the manager, so i do that. she tell me that they cant pull the box b/c i might be a collector. ok...so i say, im just looking for a certian few for my sons birthday could you please just help me out this one time. still...she says no. so i lied, i said im not a collector i just want to get my son the few that he does not have. and im told that she cant pull the box b/c collectors come in here all te time asking us to do that and its not fair to the regular customers. so i said im just a regular guy, im not going to come in here everyday with the hope that i find them on the shelf, a collector will do that, so how is it fair to me right now that im here and you refuse to give me a chance. so she walks me over to where the SW muggs are and says we cant put any new ones out till these sell through (great whos going to buy the 7 maces and 5 obi-wans). then she proceeds to say that the only one that sold this morning was an R2-D2. at that point i just laughed and said that its not right that you would refuse to sell me a product. so she said thats her policy and i can take it up with corporate.

Wonderful people!!! just wonderful. This is why i hate exclusives.

sorry i just needed to rant for a moment.

[Zoop]

Ouch. I checked several Targets yesterday and only once was I given that treatment. I got one manager who actually looked, too. Most employees gave me the "well, normally we can't look for specific characters, but..." since I told them I only wanted to know if they had a Target sticker on the front and I'd buy the whole case if so. Still came out dry, but I could tell they actually looked.

[Jose G.]

Yeah that's happened to me a couple of times as well and it's really unfair that we all have to be labeled as "scalpers/collectors" thanks to a few bad apples that have spoiled the hunting game along the way. I find that each individual target has it's own rules when it comes to searching for things in the back, maybe you can try a different Target if that's a possibility for you.

[xssocx]

That doesnt make much sense to me. A collector is still a customer. A collector is your biggest buyer for collectables. So let them buy it. Good thing that didnt happen to me. I would threw a fit and asked her to call corporate or the DM/RM.

[theskipper]

Someone working there probably wanted them and needed to wait until payday. I have gotten the "We can't bring anything from the back until these sell" when there was only two on the shelf.

[supkuzz]

Interesting. A box of exclusives was being sold to what looked like collectors at my store the other day. I was so sad. I can tell you that with the handhelds they can't tell specifically what is in the back room just the number that is back there. They can check other stores too.

[reishaboinx]

that's lame! they should be happy people actually buys from there store now that everything's closing already

[schrodingerscat]

Total BS my friend. A good friend of mine, we've been buds since kindergarten, is a manager at a Target. I asked him and he said that Scapler/collector money is just as green as anyone else's money. That lady's full of it.