I hit Wal-Mart the other night while they were getting ready to re-stock. I scoured over all of the boxes but none of them were TF's. :sad: The SW geeks had already torn thru the 3 cases of figures that were in the pile.

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Bug auction V.2 is scheduled to start at 8:30PM PDT tonight.

 

Andrew, I think I found that store in chinatown that you were talking about, but all they had were bent, faded, and beat up Triggerbot Backstreets and Triggercon Ruckus'. The prices were $18 and $12, but even with haggling that would've been ridiculous for such crappy toys.

They also had a bunch of faded japanese Transformers that didn't look worth checking out.

 

You ... you found it? :eek4: After my terrible map drawings, you found it?



That's exactly the place I'm talking about. The carded figures were hanging on an end cap. Directly to your right, on a wall shelf were some beater white boxed toys.

 

Those SW geeks are nuts. They seriously TRASH everything that they don't need. When I'm looking for TF's ... I take a look, move things nicely, and go about my business.

SW Geeks ... they knock stuff down, and bash crap that's in their way. :down:

That works for me!

Quick notes:
reserve price of what was set last time
no BIN
start it at .99

sound like a plan?

 

I'll put out the request to derry now.

 

That works, I'll make sure it gets updated. eBay made me a "Power Seller" this weekend so maybe it will help a tiny bit.

 

The SW guys are pretty hardcore, but I witnessed a Hot Wheels collector push a child *to the ground* to get to an item on the pegs. I've been shoved into personally while just standing near the HW. Those guys are animals.

 

oh, can you change the start time from 8:30PM PDT to 7:34 PDT?

east coast = 10:34pm
central = 9:34pm
west coast = 7:34pm

I'm thinking 8:30 PDM is a bit too late for the central and east coast folks.

also, the :34 is to avoid the automated auction flood. People always trigger their auctions to start on the hour or half hour. By staggering our auction out a bit, we avoid having the system end our auction with 20 others. It'll not group us together at the same end time.

 

that's freaking nuts.

It's strange though ... I can stereotype HW collectors. I know what they look like before they're even in the department. :squint:




oh, you're the king around here ... do you know the value on something like this?



This is unopened, sealed, new, etc.

I have an estimate of $75 to $100, is that a bit over? under?

 

It was right where I thought it would be when you mentioned the martial arts store. The map was a little bit reversed, but pretty accurate. If you're facing the end cap, you're facing the entrance, right? The wall shelf on the right had the japanese Transformers.

I snapped some pictures of the store and the martial arts place, but it's on a camera phone and came out pretty bad. I didn't want to take pictures inside the store since they were already following me around.