BOYCOTT RESELLERS AND SCALPERS!

As a collector of newer dolls like Monster High (MH), I am all for boycotting resellers on sites such as Ebay, Amazon and others.

These are often the same types of people who will buy several of 1 or more items, then charge double, triple or more for the same item. And yet people relent and buy from them.
There have even been videos on Youtube & elsewhere of resellers/scalpers making mass purchases and in some cases clearing the shelves of an item. Such a practice is allowed to go on, stores for the most part do nothing, and potential customers are cheated because of the selfish ambitions of one or more scalpers.

Incidentally, some of these scalpers also call stores like Toys R Us (TRU) ahead and ask them to hold CASES of products. WHOLE CASES! And as you can tell from the pic above, SEVERAL CASES!!!!!!!! No store should be engaging in this practice, they are only feeding the scalpers/resellers and cheating customers. I'm sure some use this as a way to make money. IMO it's more like a way to cheat the public for personal gain. If that is how you make your living you should be ashamed because you are more of a thief than a reseller.

I really wish stores would DISCOURAGE HOLDS of mass numbers of products. I have learned of instances where people do ask a store to hold ONE or TWO of a product, or occasionally hold 1 case of a product. Oftentimes they do it to save time and money. This is fine. I do maintain stores should refuse to allow purchases of MUTLIPLE BOXES or CASES of a product. For instance if one box contains six of the same product, a customer should NOT be allowed to request a hold of the entire box. Especially repeat customers who do this over and over. When stores sell whole cases to a customer, it sends the message that they only care about money.

And stores like TRU and Justice where there have been incidents of customers actually witnessing store employees grabbing boxes of items from trucks and then purchasing them all just so they can resell for triple the original price need to be called out.  If you see this happening in ANY store contact their web site and tell them!  I would also advise letting the store manager know, even tho I realize they might be in on this and look the other way.


For the record, I am not against sellers of vintage items, things no longer available for purchase in stores, etc....that is different from selling items that are currently available (even if only select parts of the country) at ridiculous prices.

These are just my opinions, so please keep that in mind.