Has anyone seen "Frosty" from Cars 2 in their Target?

OK... I have to ask - I've been visiting this thread for a couple of weeks now without comment but what I would like to know is, why all the fuss for this one toy? Is it only because it's a 'chase' figure, or are you all HUGE fans of Cars?

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Originally Posted by 5FDP

OK... I have to ask - I've been visiting this thread for a couple of weeks now without comment but what I would like to know is, why all the fuss for this one toy? Is it only because it's a 'chase' figure, or are you all HUGE fans of Cars?

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Voiced by Mark Winterbottom in the movie it is an Australia Only Exclusive Superchase which might have something to do with it

so i guess we can always sell it to the yanks for some $$$

but on a side note i love the cars movies

My missus is a ford fan, so is her dad. So need couple signed and couple opened. And a couple ppl i know want him.

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Originally Posted by griffin

It's not scalping if there isn't a price change... I think you're thinking of him being greedy for buying up so many (if he wasn't thinking of other people as the reason for doing it - if he was being greedy or a scalper, you wouldn't even see his offer posted here, he would have just listed them all on ebay).
Scalping is actually charging an excessive amount, to take advantage of desperate people who are looking for a rare item.
He's only charging an extra $2 to people who just want one, which covers his time and petrol.... and for all we know, he could even be someone who needs the extra money (which wouldn't be much from all these either).
Charging an extra $3 for each additional figure could be in case a person wanted several, with plans of just scalping them on ebay themselves. (how'd you feel if you thought you were helping out others, just to have someone only buy them from you to sell on ebay for twice the price)

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No, I'm not accusing. :) I was just asking if it is a different price, but thanks anyway for pointing it out.

And just to clarify, Im getting 4 because i know people who want them and Im not gonna scalp them :p

He's helping people, so that's different.

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Originally Posted by Demonac

I just saw about 20 or so of these supposed 'super-chase' Frosty cars at Target.

If anyone still wants one, let me know.

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Any chance on still getting any of the frosty's? If so I 'd love to get one thanks.

Hey,

Yea, I still have a few.

cool, could you set one aside for me and shoot me a PM with your payment details. postage is to 2747. thanks.:D:D

*wanders into the thread*
Anyone able to help me getting a couple of these?

May be too late -- I should start hanging around here again.

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Originally Posted by Demonac

I went back and bought 3/4 of the Frosty's they had.
The second photo is what it looked like at Target.

If there isn't much interest, I'll start returning them after Xmas.

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Im honestly surprised how you were able to find so many of them and them lying around like that

In QLD Target's they were all kept out the back.

I was lucky that Mt Ommaney Target rang me and let me have 2, one for me and one for my friend?

Dont you work for Target?

Re concept of scalpers - that's life. You win some and you lose some!

Hi. I work at target in ballarat and we came across a box of 24 in our reserves. So me and a mate looked into it and found out how rare they were so we bought the box. We later spoke to our manager about it and he said most targets in Australia were allocated one box. So I'd say staff have got the box and seen how rare they are and bought the lot of them

Stores (and employees) in America got into a lot of trouble for doing that sort of thing (staff getting to rare items first for themselves or scalplers waiting for them)... I hope Target does something about it here too.

We might shrug it off or be slightly amused at it being a non-Transformers item, but imagine if this was a limited edition (highly sought after) Transformers toy.... this is the most active and integrated toy collector community in Australia - there would be a riot.
Just look at how much abuse ToysRUs Head Office (and stores) copped with the Masterpiece Optimus, and that was just from short supply. Imagine if that figure had been grabbed and scalped by TRU employees before any of them got to the shelves for consumers.... you'd have a couple hundred very angry people, causing so much trouble for TRU directly and through the media, that TRU would make sure it would never happen again (through policy changes, and firing the staff involved).

Maybe Target Head Office should be made aware of the problem, as it defeats the purpose of their product managers paying a premium for an exclusive, if it ends up driving away customers (angry for not being able to find it, except on ebay) instead of bringing them in (the whole point of store exclusives). Any bad publicity that hurts their brand, and impacts on their sales strategies (paying for exclusive items), won't be something they'd be too happy about.

If that is crap. Something should be done about it. Because it is unfair to the consumer. Seems that the target that deonasis went to actually did the right thing and put them on the floor.

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Originally Posted by griffin

Stores (and employees) in America got into a lot of trouble for doing that sort of thing (staff getting to rare items first for themselves or scalplers waiting for them)... I hope Target does something about it here too.

We might shrug it off or be slightly amused at it being a non-Transformers item, but imagine if this was a limited edition (highly sought after) Transformers toy.... this is the most active and integrated toy collector community in Australia - there would be a riot.
Just look at how much abuse ToysRUs Head Office (and stores) copped with the Masterpiece Optimus, and that was just from short supply. Imagine if that figure had been grabbed and scalped by TRU employees before any of them got to the shelves for consumers.... you'd have a couple hundred very angry people, causing so much trouble for TRU directly and through the media, that TRU would make sure it would never happen again (through policy changes, and firing the staff involved).

Maybe Target Head Office should be made aware of the problem, as it defeats the purpose of their product managers paying a premium for an exclusive, if it ends up driving away customers (angry for not being able to find it, except on ebay) instead of bringing them in (the whole point of store exclusives). Any bad publicity that hurts their brand, and impacts on their sales strategies (paying for exclusive items), won't be something they'd be too happy about.

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I know TRU head office have copped a LOT from me alright.
But in all seriousness, if this is the case, something has to be done.

I saw a bunch at what I believe was either Target Melbourne CBD or Big W CBD, if anyone needs one... :cool::)

I'd love some

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Originally Posted by Tarquin

Hi. I work at target in ballarat and we came across a box of 24 in our reserves. So me and a mate looked into it and found out how rare they were so we bought the box. We later spoke to our manager about it and he said most targets in Australia were allocated one box. So I'd say staff have got the box and seen how rare they are and bought the lot of them

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Awesome. That's serving your community right there.
For those of us who have missed out, or have concerns as to if an item has even seen the shop floor, all sales data; date, time, operator ID, transaction number, staff discount, flybuys, payment method, keycode and most importantly quantity, are stored in-store for 12 months. H/O also has access to this information, if customers were to call raising concerns.