Lately I've been getting lots of people asking me about Zhu-Zhu Pets. These are crappy little fake hamsters you stick a battery in, and they do certain cute hamster things. There might also be some interactive aspect to them, in which you can enter a code on some Web site and be able to play little games with your Zhu-Zhu pets online. They're called Zhu-Zhu pets because "crappy little fake hamster your kid will play with for eight minutes and then forget about forever" has no marketing zing.
However, it has evidently been decided that Zhu-Zhu pets are THE hot toy of the 2009 holiday season. We have been sold out of the damn things for close to a month. They're selling for ridiculously inflated prices on the internet. We supposedly have 392 of them on order, but that doesn't mean we'll necessarily get 392 Zhu-Zhu pets in, or getting any in anytime soon. Not when I suspect the manufacturer is holding back on supply because they know they have a hit on their hands and this way they can drive up the hype.
So today, as I'm working out our six pallets of toys, which included all of zero Zhu-Zhu Pets, some guy comes up to me and bellows "Hey! Toy guy! You got my Zhu-Zhu Pets in yet?"
Ummm, nope, sorry, they haven't come in yet.
"Well what's going on here?! I've been waiting for weeks to get Zhu-Zhu pets for my grandkids! Your ads say you're my 'one-stop' store and you're letting me down my grandkids said they don't want to go on living if they can't get their zhu-zhu pets so what am I supposed to do, Toy Guy? Huh?"
I suggest either forking out the coin for them on ebay, expanding your search radius, or researching funeral homes for your grandchildren.
Seriously, the outside calls for toys have been through the roof lately, and almost all of them are people looking for Zhu-Zhu pets. Every time the service desk has to transfer the call, and somebody on the floor such as Yours Truly has to tell the customer no, because we're not allowed to have the service desk do that for us. The call button in toys is getting mashed daily by people asking for these damn Zhu-Zhu pets, and we get to watch the customer weep and wail and curse and otherwise go nuts when we tell them we don't have Zhu-Zhu pets.
Seriously folks, they're just little toys. We're not the only place in the world that sells them. Just about everyplace is sold out and trying to obtain more.
So help me God, if our Zhu-Zhu pets first come in on the last truck before Thanksgiving (which could mean they'd first be available for sale Thanksgiving Day) and we manage to have some available for Black Friday, somebody's going to get seriously injured or killed over the fucking things, and I'll get to watch.
However, it has evidently been decided that Zhu-Zhu pets are THE hot toy of the 2009 holiday season. We have been sold out of the damn things for close to a month. They're selling for ridiculously inflated prices on the internet. We supposedly have 392 of them on order, but that doesn't mean we'll necessarily get 392 Zhu-Zhu pets in, or getting any in anytime soon. Not when I suspect the manufacturer is holding back on supply because they know they have a hit on their hands and this way they can drive up the hype.
So today, as I'm working out our six pallets of toys, which included all of zero Zhu-Zhu Pets, some guy comes up to me and bellows "Hey! Toy guy! You got my Zhu-Zhu Pets in yet?"
Ummm, nope, sorry, they haven't come in yet.
"Well what's going on here?! I've been waiting for weeks to get Zhu-Zhu pets for my grandkids! Your ads say you're my 'one-stop' store and you're letting me down my grandkids said they don't want to go on living if they can't get their zhu-zhu pets so what am I supposed to do, Toy Guy? Huh?"
I suggest either forking out the coin for them on ebay, expanding your search radius, or researching funeral homes for your grandchildren.
Seriously, the outside calls for toys have been through the roof lately, and almost all of them are people looking for Zhu-Zhu pets. Every time the service desk has to transfer the call, and somebody on the floor such as Yours Truly has to tell the customer no, because we're not allowed to have the service desk do that for us. The call button in toys is getting mashed daily by people asking for these damn Zhu-Zhu pets, and we get to watch the customer weep and wail and curse and otherwise go nuts when we tell them we don't have Zhu-Zhu pets.
Seriously folks, they're just little toys. We're not the only place in the world that sells them. Just about everyplace is sold out and trying to obtain more.
So help me God, if our Zhu-Zhu pets first come in on the last truck before Thanksgiving (which could mean they'd first be available for sale Thanksgiving Day) and we manage to have some available for Black Friday, somebody's going to get seriously injured or killed over the fucking things, and I'll get to watch.
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