Is the packaging worth enough for it to effect the value of your purchase?

[bowspearer]

Most toy packaging would just be ripped up and thrown away so I can't see why it SHOULD be reduced.

If you were a collector really worried about the packaging condition you probably wouldn't buy it because it wouldn't be at the standard for your collection.

If the packaging condition didn't matter and all you wanted was the toy, then why does it matter?

You've made the same mistake here most toy retailers do at the store level. The fact is that collectors do exist and this is the store chain which short of TRU, has had the most store exclusives. Not only are their head office aware of collectors but they've marketted to them. As such it is entirely reasonable for Target to be aware of the basic fact in collecting that packaged toys cost more than loose toys. If I'm not about to pay the same price for a figure that's effectively loose as I would for a sealed figure, then why should I do so in a store?

Forgetting about collectors for a minute though, what about parents? How many parents are going to be buying toys as presents for kids and how many of them are going to pay $25 for a toy that has it's packaging ripped to shreds when they can walk a few hundred metres down to Kmart and pay that as normal price for a deluxe? That's the first point to this.

Secondly, Target are in the middle of a Toy sale which they're now extending. The whole reason this is happening is because Australian retailers are suffering badly from people voting with their feet and buying online and internationally. So the idea of them wanting business right now is a pretty reasonable one.

Im confused and what does this have to do with the toysale?

You mean besides the fact that this happened at Target and during the toy sale, or the fact that toy sales are being extended because of how poorly retailers are doing compared to online international toy shopping atm? Furthermore, how is this any less relevant than criticisms of Target's refusal to price match with BigW during the toy sales?

[TF76]

It wasn't a toy sale item or anything to do with toy sale, just you having a rant about not getting a toy for the price you believe your entitled to, based only on your own opinion.

The event just happens to be while toy sale is on makes no difference targets policy's are targets policy's everyday, if they are working within those policies I honestly don't see the problem.

I'm interested in info on the sale updates etc... Not the same rants over and over.

I don't agree with your opinion and it is just that, your opinion.

[Mr Ed]

It wasn't a toy sale item or anything to do with toy sale, just you having a rant about not getting a toy for the price you believe your entitled to, based only on your own opinion.

The event just happens to be while toy sale is on makes no difference targets policy's are targets policy's everyday, if they are working within those policies I honestly don't see the problem.

I'm interested in info on the sale updates etc... Not the same rants over and over.

I don't agree with your opinion and it is just that, your opinion.

This is a very pleasant forum and people help each other with sightings, share concerns and rants. Whilst this topic has gone off forum, it's not the end of the world. Just ignore them and move on man!!!!

[bowspearer]

This is a very pleasant forum and people help each other with sightings, share concerns and rants. Whilst this topic has gone off forum, it's not the end of the world. Just ignore them and move on man!!!!

You know the ironic bit. When I posted that it was nothing more than light hearted anecdote which made me laugh with how ironic it was in light of the current retail sales crisis here and this happening in the middle of a toy sale.

It seems I didn't know half the irony of since posting it earned me an ambush and personal attacks where I'm supposedly 'emo' and 'bawwing on the internet'....

[Mr Ed]

You know the ironic bit. When I posted that it was nothing more than light hearted anecdote which made me laugh with how ironic it was in light of the current retail sales crisis here and this happening in the middle of a toy sale.

It seems I didn't know half the irony of since posting it earned me an ambush and personal attacks where I'm supposedly 'emo' and 'bawwing on the internet'....

It's ok. Just ignore it and move on. We're not fighting for sheep stations here

[UltraMarginal]

+1 to what Griffin said. rather insightful, even if the packaging doesn't really effect the toy, your still going to be tempted by the undamaged box next to the damaged box as a purchaser.

Eventually an item like that will get marked down due to being constantly overlooked, and needing to be moved, but until there is damage to the actual toy/product I think the store is justified in not marking it down.

I also think rather than policy, this type of decision is often up to the individual. how good a day they are having and if their store gets "damaged" packaging often.

I got a few extra dollars off a ROTF leader Megs because one of the leg panels was loose in the box and I politely asked for the discount. luckily I was able to re-assemble. but that was a gamble I took.

Which only proves my point about how out of touch Australian toy retailers are and how their sales are plummetting as a result. Furthermore this is the same retailer who got in the Takara version of MP-02 and MP-04 so clearly Target head office is not only aware of collectors but has also marketted to them in the past- like when they picked up most of the US store exclusives between 2001-2006 for RiD-Cybertron. Clearly somewhere between Head Office and the stores, Target have some serious communications problems.

I always attributed this to there being a collectors gaurdian angel living somewhere in the Target Procurements department. not really related to any particular line of communication. Much like the Takara Jetwing prime at the moment, though that is in a lot of stores so, maybe that's a Hasbro Australia Angel.