$70 Platinum Edition Trypticon at ToysRUs

[DarkHyren]

Went to Ctown this morning and nothing on the shelves, asked front counter and computer said none left, older lady chimed in that some guy went in friday and bought the lot at once and she was not happy about there being nothing she could do about it.
She did say it was a pricing error and it had already been fixed up...

if it truly was a pricing error she could have refused sale on that grounds alone. Even if it wasn't stores have the right to refuse to sell to someone.
there was plenty she could have done if she cared, but they don't care where the money comes from so long as they get it.
I'm not mad for me as I already had my own Trypticon months ago and secured two more on Thursday (spare for me and one to offer up at cost to other fans, which is being picked up Monday, sorry guys) I'm mad for the people here that missed out on owning a piece of transformers history for a smashing good price.

Anyway I'll shut up about this matter now and wash my hands of it, just goes further to proving I made the right choice to ditch brick and mortars wherever possible in favour of online retail (I still count a physical stores online store as part of the brick n mortar package)

[5FDP]

Still haven't received a shipping or cancellation notice. Logged into the TRU website last night and while one screen says 'order received', when I click on 'track order' it states that it was picked up by Fastway Couriers (Campbelltown) and is in transit I guess I'll find out on Monday.

Just tried to check tonight on their website and it's all messed up. Not sure if they're undergoing maintenance. Probably someone from Anonymous was pi$$ed they weren't getting their Trypticon so they took them down.

[Jetfire in the sky]

oh it may not be illegal but it's most certainly immoral, I don't know why we shouldn't be peeved at scumbags like that who are just greedy little jerks trying to make a profit at someone else's expense. Put in an honest days work like everyone else I say.

Couldn't agree with you more on that one.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I love the anger that this type of behaviour gives us collectors, like the pic of that knob with all the Devvies mid last year, we live in a "free market" capitalist society, while these types of people piss me off to no end as well the only real way we could stop them is if we lived in a truly communist society which at this stage has not existed, the closest would be a big hippie commune but as far as I know they aren't into TF's

I used to wear my TF boxers to Confest, until it came time to nude-up anyway

[5FDP]

Well, my $70 Trypticon turned up today If it weren't for the pricing error, I'd be pissed that they taped the shipping bag to the actual box.

[jazzcomp]

Well, my $70 Trypticon turned up today If it weren't for the pricing error, I'd be pissed that they taped the shipping bag to the actual box.

Lucky! ???

[Ploughmans Lunch]

Mine is still pending @ warehouse, no cancellation yet.

[ampoldj]

i cant believe what TRU did... i beleive this is no error since they are also clearing a Kitchen Toy Set at 250 to 50aud so Trypticon makes sense being cleared at that price yet they noticed how people are taking all their stocks that they have to rethink their pricing

[Ploughmans Lunch]

If they'd price things reasonably then maybe just maybe they'd not have to do shit like this? thx tru.

[llamatron]

If it was a legit clearance price then the goal is to get rid of all the stock... So yeah, probably was a pricing error.