Comments on: Why I Hate Toy Collectors and Toy Traffickers: a Parent’s Perspective http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/ Toys Selected by Parents Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:34:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: ToyViews.com » A Potential “Father Son” Moment Busted Parents Profiling Toys http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-5 ToyViews.com » A Potential “Father Son” Moment Busted Parents Profiling Toys Wed, 02 May 2007 19:40:56 +0000 http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-5 [...] original TMNT’s in the package from the last time the were popular. Yes, I did do a small bit of toy collecting in my youth. I quickly checked Ebay to see if I was about to destroy hundreds of dollars of [...] […] original TMNT’s in the package from the last time the were popular. Yes, I did do a small bit of toy collecting in my youth. I quickly checked Ebay to see if I was about to destroy hundreds of dollars of […]

]]> By: Paul http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-15 Paul Fri, 11 May 2007 01:57:21 +0000 http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-15 Thanks for visiting my blog. I'm really sorry you've had a lot of negative run ins with toy collectors. I believe that there is a "silent majority" of toy collectors who are the normals. We don't stick in peoples minds because we really don't engage in the activities mentioned in your post. I think though, that you are right and have every reason to be mad at those you call Toy Traffickers. Collectors call these people scalpers and we dont' like them just as much as you don't. When there is a percieved notion that you can make money on something easily, people will do it. In the case of Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle Me Elmos, it was the general public who became greedy. In the toy world it's toy collectors or those that prey on us. I knew a guy through someone else that would visit every retail store in the city I lived in every day at least two times looking for figures so he could stock up his secondary toy shop. It drives me crazy that people like this are around. Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m really sorry you’ve had a lot of negative run ins with toy collectors. I believe that there is a “silent majority” of toy collectors who are the normals. We don’t stick in peoples minds because we really don’t engage in the activities mentioned in your post. I think though, that you are right and have every reason to be mad at those you call Toy Traffickers. Collectors call these people scalpers and we dont’ like them just as much as you don’t. When there is a percieved notion that you can make money on something easily, people will do it. In the case of Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle Me Elmos, it was the general public who became greedy. In the toy world it’s toy collectors or those that prey on us. I knew a guy through someone else that would visit every retail store in the city I lived in every day at least two times looking for figures so he could stock up his secondary toy shop. It drives me crazy that people like this are around.

]]> By: Kenny http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-20 Kenny Fri, 18 May 2007 17:31:59 +0000 http://toyviews.com/2007/05/01/why-i-hate-toy-collectors-and-toy-traffickers-a-parent%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-20 I don't get it, since you admit Toy Collectors only create a small scarcity (if any at all since I think children > collectors), why then do you hate collectors? Because the one you've ever met are freaks? If so, then that's abit harsh. In anycase, yes, Toy Traffickers aka Scalpers are the real enemy. They are everywhere even here where I am in Singapore, and the way they go about conducting their business is just plain unethical. The Toys R Us here have even implemented a scheme whereby customers can only buy a maximum of two pieces of toys that are deemed popular, but even that has not solved the issue. The sad thing in the end is that there is no law against what they are doing and in the mean time, it seems that there is nothing we can do about them. I don’t get it, since you admit Toy Collectors only create a small scarcity (if any at all since I think children > collectors), why then do you hate collectors? Because the one you’ve ever met are freaks? If so, then that’s abit harsh.

In anycase, yes, Toy Traffickers aka Scalpers are the real enemy. They are everywhere even here where I am in Singapore, and the way they go about conducting their business is just plain unethical. The Toys R Us here have even implemented a scheme whereby customers can only buy a maximum of two pieces of toys that are deemed popular, but even that has not solved the issue.

The sad thing in the end is that there is no law against what they are doing and in the mean time, it seems that there is nothing we can do about them.

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