Dragboater said:
Great car,your lucky,all the cases in my town are opened by employees,And by some chance they never make it to the shelf.But wait!?,amazed and confused!, they do not do that!!!that is against our store policy!!!!!!!!!,another collector beat you to it?As an employee "collector?"- runs away with it-zoom-,head smokin from ear to ear as he disappears in the stock room to pilage more cases-HEHEHAHA.At least that is what I am told.I have never found one on the shelf.BOO HOO!for me.Good luck and nice find.
thanks guys! :thumbsup:
Dragboater, you are not alone. that happens at my closest walmart. it is not only diecast cars, it is anything worth more than the retail value on ebay. i witnessed two punks at my local wally pull off their act. they had a case of mcfarane figures. they kept it in the back and brought it out while i was in the isle.
1. these two punks weren't the regulars who stock the toys.
2. this wasn't during normal stocking hours.
3. i find it odd that the case of mcfarane figures are the only box of toys they had brought out.
what they did was wait until the one guy took his break. the other carried out the case and opened up. he held each one up to the other guy before he hung them on the pegs. the guy nodded his head for the ones that he wanted and the guy stocking them set those ones on the shelf below the pegs. after the guy was done stocking, the other grabbed them and ran to the nearest register.
another local wally has the woman who stocks the toys on the lookout for a relation of one of the managers. she keeps a list of anything they might want (t-hunts & whites) if she comes across them while she is stocking at night, she will set them aside and call that person to let them know that the stuff is at the service desk. i actually found this out from my friend. the woman dialed the wrong number one time and left a message on his (my buddy) mom's answering machine.
it is not only walmart. around christmas i went to a TRU. i got there right before it opened. it was only me, a woman and her two children waiting at the doors for them to open. they opened the doors and i headed right to the diecast isle. there was already a guy standing there picking through the hotwheels. i know for fact that there was no possible way that guy could have been there before me unless one of the workers let him in a side door right before they opened. he was probably a relative of one of the workers.
it is obvious that they are doing stuff that they are not supposed to do but telling a manager would be a waste of time especially when the managers are playing part of their antics.
