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  • #1

    Irv declares war on Mattel

    for introducing the crack-for-no-life-having-55-year-old-virgin-men toys known as Hot Wheels cars.

    I was ready to bludgeon Creepy Hot Wheels Guy today. Really I was. The whole time we were stocking toys, there he was, standing silent sentinel behind us, arms folded, legs spread, immovable, watching us go through the boxes on our pallets for half an hour until we came upon a box of single Hot Wheels cars, which we stocked in the appropriate aisle, and then he picked out of our backstock cart, went pawing through it with those grubby mitts of his, and then left, buying no Hot Wheels cars but leaving an impressive mess in our backstock cart.

    And because we've started putting up mall-aisle displays of Black Friday merchandise, this meant he was blocking half the aisle watching us work. He moved only grudginly when some woman with a shopping cart came up behind him and asked him to move. Then he ducked down one of the toy aisles before re-establishing his position 15 paces or so behind us.

    And Creepy Hot Wheels Guy stinks too. The toy department smelled like a moldy bologna sandwich for quite some time after he left. If he isn't buying stupid little kids toys from us, he could at least buy some soap and deodorant and use them.

    I'd never wish death on a fellow human being, but this guy could just disappear and I wouldn't even care.
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily
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  • #2
    Probably lives in his mom's basement too.....


    Nothin' wrong with bein' a dedicated collector at any age,but that is creepy,just hangin' around like that.
    "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.This is the principal difference between a man and a dog"

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    • #3
      Cant you dig through and leave those hot wheel boxes behind til...perhaps, near the end of your shift? All you would need to do is put a sign on it in the backroom saying "please stock" and your fellow co-irkers should avoid it like the plague...

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      • #4
        maybe they should market soap & deodorant in the shape of hot-wheels cars.

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        • #5
          Been there, smelled that...

          Our store has a father-and-son Creepy Hot Wheels Guy team. They'll tell you with a straight face what's supposed to be coming in on our truck...when even our boss doesn't get a manifest in advance. Their personal hygiene is well below the standard for basement-dwelling gamers, and their manners? They walk into our stockroom like they're just another employee, and I've had to (unfailingly politely) ask them to leave the area a dozen times. And yeah, they hardly ever buy anything, and when they do, it's always with a lot of attitude. I can do without the collectors and their goddamned attitude. Grrrr...
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          • #6
            I used to collect Star Wars figures when they came out with the Power of the Force line. At some point I stopped because certain figures were becoming harder and harder to get (lots of limited releases, lots of releases to certain entities, etc) and I decided that many of the figures were rehashes of rehashes and since I wasn't going to complete my collection, there was no point. And I remember going to Toys R Us when they had their midnight thing for Phantom Menace. The thing that really bothered me was that Toys R Us would never have anything in stock yet the f****** comic stores would have everything (at an inflated price of course). And none of my figures are MIB....I don't believe in it. Even though I'm much older, I believe figures are meant to be played with. They just don't look cool in their plastic prisons. I never really meant my collection to be my retirement.

            But yes, when I would go in to look for figures there were some winners.

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            • #7
              Pawing through backstock? I wouldn't allow it; customers are not allowed to go near our flats/carts.
              "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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              • #8
                Quoth PepperElf View Post
                maybe they should market soap & deodorant in the shape of hot-wheels cars.
                It's already been done. I can't remember which store had them, but you could buy little bars of soap shaped like cars, trucks, and other vehicles.

                Back on topic here, I have a sizable collection of diecast cars. Only two of them are still in their plastic boxes. Those were limited-edition Holdens (made by Hot Wheels) that one of my Australian friends sent me awhile back. Otherwise, I have to take them out of the packaging to play with them. Keep in mind that I'm in my 30s
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                • #9
                  The 2 1/2 months I worked in the toy section was a enlightening experience for me when it came to the nerd/geek/collector SC factor. I myself used to be into Star Wars figures and other such stuff, then Idk. . . I grew up

                  Man I would get the collectors begging me to go in my back stock room to pull a box of Hot Wheels so they could rummage through them. however my department manager was on to the collectors and would keep stuff like that locked up in security cage (I think she even distrusted me and believed I was one of those scummy collector types too)

                  I remember one night having to contact LP cause the night stockers pulled a cart of the hotwheels (a cart that happened to be not locked up) and we had a group of SC's impatiently waiting until the boxes were opened. I was at the end of my shift so I called cause I didn't want no part of that mess >.<

                  And of course you would get the die hard collector fan boys that would get upset when you did not know if we had a particular in store exclusive available.

                  Sooo glad I don't collect that stuff no more. Atm most of that stuff I have are in rubber maid storage boxes for the day I decide to rid them. Anyone interested in some X-men action figures?
                  "This job would be great if it wasn't for the f***** customers." - Randell 'Clerks'

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Krivak View Post
                    Cant you dig through and leave those hot wheel boxes behind til...perhaps, near the end of your shift? All you would need to do is put a sign on it in the backroom saying "please stock" and your fellow co-irkers should avoid it like the plague...
                    Actually, if I see boxes of Hot Wheels on our toys pallets, I fill them first thing in the morning, even though I'm supposed to be working on housewares, and then put all the backstock in the backroom right away.

                    Creepy Hot Wheels Guy does not go in our backroom. If he ever has, he's been told off. We do not put up with customers venturing into our backroom.
                    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                    • #11
                      Otherwise, I have to take them out of the packaging to play with them. Keep in mind that I'm in my 30s
                      use to be that i would buy a "collectable" item from the kid's store, but i would get 2... one to play with and one to keep in the box.

                      though for some of the pricier things i just got one... like wolverine, in a box with Cyclopes' motorcycle. and ash with a chainsaw and the necronomicon. and come to think of it i think ash has a few mini-ash too. both of those are in the box still.

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                      • #12
                        Years ago, a friend of mine gave me a set of Babylon 5 ships from Micro Machines. I immediately opened the boxes, to his complete and utter horror.

                        Toys ARE meant to be played with. And since I'm a big kid who never grew up (and hopes never TO grow up) I continue to open the boxes and play with my toys.

                        I have a set of original Transformers from the 80's (Gen 1). My niece and nephew love playing with them when they come over
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                        • #13
                          Quoth PepperElf View Post
                          use to be that i would buy a "collectable" item from the kid's store, but i would get 2... one to play with and one to keep in the box.

                          though for some of the pricier things i just got one... like wolverine, in a box with Cyclopes' motorcycle. and ash with a chainsaw and the necronomicon. and come to think of it i think ash has a few mini-ash too. both of those are in the box still.

                          What people don't get is that the reason why the Star Wars figures from the 70's are valuable (or GI Joes from the 60's or whatever) is because the figures from the 70's were bought primarily for kids and kids would play with them. This meant that ones still in the package were rare. With modern collectibles, that's not the case and so ones in the package are not as rare. The STar Wars figure that really ticked me off was the first Slave Leia...took me forever to find one.

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                          • #14
                            The STar Wars figure that really ticked me off was the first Slave Leia...took me forever to find one.
                            I have 2 slave Leias

                            Though I remember seing in FAO Schwarz a 12 inch Leia (like a Barbie doll) with R2. I thought that would be so cool to buy, but at $99? Nu-uh.
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                            • #15
                              Do not blame Mattel for this. Rather, blame the nature of an obsessed individual. There are many folks who collect items we might consider "toys" or otherwise things for children. This, however, does not excuse this "fellow"'s behavior one whit. If possible, I would recommend that if he is blocking an aisle in the future, you might let him know that he needs to keep the way clear, and if there is a box of Hot Wheels, when they might be available, but that store personal only are allowed to open the shipping box and only after they have been stocked on the shelves may anyone look, carefully, through them.

                              I know, it's optimistic of me to think that might work...

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