Target

handyman

I saw 2 35+ year olds at my local target going through all the packs. One was the look out and the other pulled out a digital scale. He was happy to purchase only 5 packs. I took a pic of them. But they looked very sad.

Downtown1974

If I ever get to that point in my life, please just drag me over to the stamps forum and put me down.

cone10

That sucks That's why I just buy blasters.

miconelegacy

If I ever saw that or see that, I will say something. That's just taking from kids...really sad but I know it's been going on for years.

Cokin75

I used to crawl around the department store floor 'searching' the card display for the hot cards on top/back of racks and cellos.... in 1988, when I was 12 years old. Come to think of it, I was even kind of embarrassed doing it back then... These guys are pathetic losers.

brianwintersfan

<< <i>If I ever saw that or see that, I will say something. That's just taking from kids...really sad but I know it's been going on for years. >>



I did it once at my local target. The guy could have cared less and the manager I talked to didn't seem to care much either.

brendanb438

At my local Meijers I have ran into the same person 3 times now doing this crap. Fat white guy in his mid to late 30s probably living in his mother's basement. I almost pity these clowns. The last time I had some words with the guy and then proceeded to go up front and tell customer service you have a guy stealing a bunch of sports cards so you may want to tell security and walked out. Hopefully they gave him hell.

firedawg45

oh the days of sitting in the back room of albertsons grocery store i worked at.i use to search racks and cellos for stars and runs before they hit the floor, was a benefit of working there when i was a teenager.

alnavman

I don't understand how they can spend the time and effort doing this nonsense anyways....you won't get rich on baseball cards.....unless of course your great grand dad has left you his collection

kingnascar

Hot Wheels collectors are even more pathetic than those clowns

hammered

<< <i>Hot Wheels collectors are even more pathetic than those clowns >>




True statement. A friend of a friend is one. He has pulled some crazy sh*t trying to be the first one to go through shipments as soon as they come off the trucks.

handyman

Stories. I want to hear some hot wheels stories!
I never knew!!!!!!!!!

sbfinley

About two weeks ago I ran to Wal-Mart at about 2 a.m. to grab to Milk, bread, dog food, and assorted necessities. I figured since I was there I would grab a blaster of Allen & Ginter. I walked up to the card section and found some jack-hole in his 40's sitting Indian style on the floor with about a hundred packs and a digital scale. I asked him something about pack searching and he just laughed and said "Yeah." After I paid I told the cashier that someone was over there stealing cards. I knew that if I tried to tell them "pack searcher" they wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about. But when I said "stealing", they swarmed him like bees on honey.

edwardluger4

Whenever I see that crap going on at Target I just make sure to be extra loud when I am in line with the wife talking about how big of a loser you have to be to be spending your Saturday morning at Target searching packs of cards that will yield you at best a "Bobby Crosby Jersey Relic" that isn't even worth the time it took the poor sap that had to cut that jersey up.

The worst part is, the one guy that is always doing it at my local Target has two kids about 4 and 8 years old and a wife and they are stuck waiting for this dork to go through 1000 packs of cards.

Southsider

Take video of these losers and put it on YouTube under the heading "Pathetic Losers Who Steal From Children."

hammered

<< <i>Stories. I want to hear some hot wheels stories!
I never knew!!!!!!!!! >>




This one guy in particular has paid store associates (typically young kids) good money to look for and remove certain hot wheels from the shipment boxes before they go on shelves at Target, Kmart, etc. He even had his son get a job at Kaybee Toys for the purpose of finding and pulling key Hot Wheels before anyone else does. This was several years back.
He is there at the store when they open on days they get shipments, and I have heard (never seen) that there is a group of middle aged men that storm the shelves on shipment day, fight over what they want, and leave the toy aisles a mess at each of the stores in town.

thedutymon

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<< <i>Stories. I want to hear some hot wheels stories!
I never knew!!!!!!!!! >>




This one guy in particular has paid store associates (typically young kids) good money to look for and remove certain hot wheels from the shipment boxes before they go on shelves at Target, Kmart, etc. He even had his son get a job at Kaybee Toys for the purpose of finding and pulling key Hot Wheels before anyone else does. This was several years back.
He is there at the store when they open on days they get shipments, and I have heard (never seen) that there is a group of middle aged men that storm the shelves on shipment day, fight over what they want, and leave the toy aisles a mess at each of the stores in town. >>



Morning,

Knowing the values of these, that doesn't surprise me in the least. My Wifes Sisters Husband is one of these, he has a room in his house and the Garage converted to a collection room, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 Thousand of them. Last time I asked, he said his Insurance replacement value was at $500K.

Neil

dennis07

Sorry to say back in '88 I spent my fair share of time searching rack packs of Donruss. With the number runs you could
tell what packs had a Greg Jefferies. I wasn't the only one because it was hard as heck to find his card in the wild.
I learned my lesson & have reformed. I'm no longer a pathetic loser.
Just out of curiosity what exactly does the weight tell them? No, I'm not going to relapse!

Aric

Man, I wish I could run into one of these losers with the scales. Here's my plan. Watch them from afar and figure out which stack of packs are the good ones. Stroll up and say "hey, looks like they've got some new boxes over there." As he rolls over to follow my finger, I swoop in and snatch the hot packs. Haha.

ndleo

Are you really surprised or upset? I've been in this hobby a long time and the one thing I learned is that it seems to attract a good number of scammers, liars, and thieves. Who here has never been burned by a dealer, ebay, or fellow collector? Hell when I was a weekend deal I had customers try to rip me off.

Plus retail packs blow anyways.

cardsnbeads

Target Sucks, I miss the $10 Boxes with the 8 to 10 packs. That was the only time I got anything good there. There is always the same creeps with the digital scales my father, who is not a card collector yelled at a guy doing that. The Scales guys also break open the Shipping Boxes for Toys and Figures before they hit the floor. These pukes that sift the packs at target and elsewhere also drove Starting Lineups into the Ground.

pato1516

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Morning,

Knowing the values of these, that doesn't surprise me in the least. My Wifes Sisters Husband is one of these, he has a room in his house and the Garage converted to a collection room, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 Thousand of them. Last time I asked, he said his Insurance replacement value was at $500K.

Neil >>



This sounds absolutely crazy to me. And yet I would think it perfectly reasonable to have a similar collection of baseball cards. I'm such a hypocrite

kingnascar

Back in the mid 90's, Racing Champions (NASCAR die cast car company) came out with some special NASCAR die cast called Chase Cars. These cars were silver chrome versions of the regular cars but in very limited quantities. My son was little at the time and still in preschool. There was a Target on the way to his school and every morning we were there when Target opened at 8am. He loved the cars as much as me and we had a lot of fun during that time. During that same time and even through today, Hot Wheels produced their own limited cars called Treasure Hunts. This, of course, sent the Hot Wheels collectors into overload like the Fembots on Austin Powers. It really created a collecting cluster. Anyway, my son and I were the first in line at Target one morning when all of the sudden several other people started lining up behind us. I recognized a few of them as Hot Wheels freaks. At 8am, the manager opened the doors to the store. My son and I started walking in when one of the Hot Wheels guys knocked down my son to pass us. I asked my son if he was OK. Upon saying yes, I ran after the jerk that knocked down my son. Adrenaline was flowing at this point. I grabbed the guy from behind, pulled him around and grabbed his collar, pulling him within a half inch of my face. I was yelling profusely at him, asking him what was so important that he had to knock down a 6 year old kid. He said he was looking for Hot Wheels. I told him that if I ever saw him again anywhere, that I would beat his a**. About that time his buddy stepped in. I looked at him and told him he had best better butt out or I would beat his a** as well. About that time, the store manager told us to break it up. He saw what happened and made those SoB's leave. I have never seen those those turds since. My son remembers that day and thinks it was cool how I went after that guy. Of course, he is in his early 20's now and I am the dumbest man on the planet. I hope I get smarter soon.

I have seen Hot Wheels collectors do so many greedy, underhanded, low class things over my many years of collecting. I have only ever met one Hot Wheels collector that I like. The rest of them I have no use for.

I do not like Hot Wheels collectors at all and now you know why.

Logan

MeteoriteGuy

<< <i>Stories. I want to hear some hot wheels stories!
I never knew!!!!!!!!! >>



Hot Wheels have treasure hunt cars....they come about 1 a case. 12 a year...a new one every month. About the only way to get them is work at the store, or have your buddy working there call you when he is stocking.

I did get lucky a couple years ago and saw them stocking the hot wheels while searching for a birthday gift for my niece. Scored a couple fire trucks...worth about $10 each. Treasure Hunts use to go for $15-20 each though.

handyman

Really. For $5.00 Difference these th cars! Thats funny

MeteoriteGuy

<< <i>Really. For $5.00 Difference these th cars! Thats funny >>



Well, hot wheels cost $1.00-1.25...and $10 is the low end price of the treasure hunts. You can basically 10x+ your money every time. Likely, slightly more profitable then searching packs...but much harder to make a find.

All treasure hunts say treasure hunt on them now. They use to just have a green stripe.

I buy hot wheels all the time for the neighborhood kids. They are cheap and kids love them. I did as a kid.

I still have both the firetrucks...like the one shown above if anyone wants to make an offer on them....

kingnascar

<< <i>Really. For $5.00 Difference these th cars! Thats funny >>



It is a little funny now. My son was not hurt, but my dislike for Hot Wheels collectors has not changed since that day.
As Granny Clampett would say" They are lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut. "

Logan