Toy-swapping reaches Oz

[SilverDragon]

The insidious practice of toy swapping has so far seemed to be limited to the US.

However, look at what I found in Target Macquarie Centre today.



Granted, it's not as bad as some examples mentioned on the TFwiki pages (three tomatoes? seriously?), but you do have to wonder how this went un-noticed.

[christalcase]

do you think that someone actually brought the original bumblebee and soundwave, went home and then refunded it? or that the person changed it inside the store? I would think it's pretty weird that the person would be able to refund it AND that target placed it back out on sale when there is some terrible box wear already... and as you said, it is actually quite obvious, I mean, products and colours may vary, but I would think varying this much would be a bit too... far? but then again, changing it in store is pretty risky too, there's staff going all over the store these days

[Vector Prime]

I think this may have actually been done in store since from recollection, the Wheelie/Sideways box set was on special for a very cheap price at Target recently whereas Bumblebee/Soundwave was not.

I reckon some sneaky bastard's decided to swap the toys around so that when it came to checkout time, the price scanned up as the cheaper Wheelie/Sideways pack but they managed to score Bumblebee/Soundwave instead.

Okay, so who was it? Fess up!

(this obviously rules out the MISB and MIB collectors on the forum )

[optimus1]

Macq Centre is one of the main places I look for Transformers, I'll be on the lookout for these. Hopefully these stupid people get caught out

[5FDP]

Maybe it's some kind of weird variant

[Sky Shadow]

Why would someone do something so amoral and risky for toys? More to the point, why would anyone do it for ROTF toys?

My faith in humanity diminishes daily.

[langzixinxin]

Maybe it's some kind of weird variant

+1

I hardly think someone can do this in a fast way. They gotta undo and redo bindings for 4 figures. And for 10 dollar saving?

[Vector Prime]

I hardly think someone can do this in a fast way. They gotta undo and redo bindings for 4 figures. And for 10 dollar saving?

What binding? The box is the same size... all they have to do (and it looks like it's what they did) is open the box on the side, slide the cardboard backing tray with the figures still attached and switch them around.

As for the saving amount, well some people get a thrill from doing stuff like this, so often it's not about the dollar value, more so to do with the adrenaline rush

[liegeprime]

Why would someone do something so amoral and risky for toys? More to the point, why would anyone do it for ROTF toys?

My faith in humanity diminishes daily.

Time to change species

[Deceptic_Optic]

Time to change species

who said i was human?....