Dude was looking through the basics on the end cap, and took EVERY SINGLE ONE.
It was mostly Venus and Robecca but… shit. He was talking to someone on his phone(taking orders? Lol) Like, maybe they were for a bunch of nieces, but it looked a hellavu lot like a scalper.
A bad one too, he totes…
I would have grabbed his cart - said ‘Excuse me - you can’t take all of these’ THAN called for a Manager and explain the situation.
Well, I typically want to avoid a physical confrontation (in spite of all evidence to the contrary). Plus, he had no cart, just grabbed an armfull (7?) And hustled out. Thing is he didn’t notice the more rare ones on the actual MH shelf, which leads me to believe he was a noob at scalping (and believe me- I’ve seen the pro ones training for chrissakes!). And its entirely possible they were just presents. It just seemed kind of random to grab a shelfs worth
Generally when I see this, I will grab up any rares, hide in another section of the store for a bit and then put them back after the waves of scalpers leave (at TRU at 10am, for example, there were two waves; the ones there at opening and the lazy ones that arrive at 1030 and buy up what’s left. I’ve had these guys FOLLOW ME around the store. Creepy as hell!). If I had money, I would just buy a couple of the new ones and return them in the afternoon. The employees (who are generally treated shitty by most of these scalping jackholes) were OK with this.
Since moving here, I’ve noticed a refreshing lack of scalpers, so I’ve been able to concentrate on our collection. This kind of threw me for a loop, but as there are plenty of Venus & Robeccas in the area, I let it be. -_-
(edit- for some reason my phone doesn’t do paragraph breaks? Sorry if these were hard to read :P)