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[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

So I come down from break about 9-ish this morning, and find Creepy Hot Wheels Guy, this old, vaguely pee, coffee breath and cigarette smoke-smelling guy with glasses and a big white beard, who spends his money on Hot Wheels cars instead of something productive like losing his virginity, standing across the aisle from my pallet o' toys, watching it like a hawk and not moving.

I decide it that would be a good time to fill hardware instead and make Creepy Hot Wheels Guy wait. So he stands there and keeps watching my toys for a good ten minutes.

Then I finish up hardware and take my backstock to the backroom. I return to find Creep Hot Wheels Guy saying thank you to somebody and walking away.

In the shopping cart next to my toys pallet, I find the contents of a case of Hot Wheels dumped into a shopping cart.

Turns out the fucker hoodwinked one of my co-workers into opening the case of Hot Wheels on the pallet for him and letting him rummage through it, which is very much against policy! He can wait for his little toys to be put on the shelf like everybody else.

I find out who did it and have a brief conversation about never opening boxes of Hot Wheels for anybody who asks, or going into backstock and bringing Hot Wheels down for them. Next time this freakazoid comes in for his chrome-plated Mattel fix, he's going to tell his mark "But they opened the box for me last time!" And fuck it all, he's right.

[dalesys]

..."But they opened the box for me last time!"...

"The former (owner/operator of an asshole) that did that had a meeting with the chrome-plated megaphone of destiny!"

[C-130]

I kinda would say the customer didn;t suck. Is it your company policy to not get products for customers if they are in warehouse but not in stock? If so it is a really dumb policy as you loose sales. My company policies are one of find it at all costs if it is in store. And i imagine this customer will be used to such policices in other storews.; Your colleague however can't be excused for ignoring policies.

[telecom_goddess]

So I come down from break about 9-ish this morning, and find Creepy Hot Wheels Guy, this old, vaguely pee, coffee breath and cigarette smoke-smelling guy with glasses and a big white beard, who spends his money on Hot Wheels cars instead of something productive like losing his virginity,

I'm sorry this struck me funny,........

[Polenicus]

Ugh... what is it about Hot Wheels collectors?

I've seen all sorts of collectors, and they generally range the gamut from casual, slightly sheepish guys who's a little embarrassed that he's buying children's toys, to the obnoxious eBay scalper, but nothing compares to the Hot Wheels collector. It's like all of the suck of every other collector has combined, gained sentience, and developed a crack-addiction-like obsession with little metal cars.

... Yeesh, the Hot Wheels Collector is like the Captain Planet of crazy collector types. "By your powers combined, I am... CAPTAIN CREEPY SMELLY RUDE OBSESSIVE SKULKY SHAME MAN!"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Is it your company policy to not get products for customers if they are in warehouse but not in stock? If so it is a really dumb policy as you loose sales.

Ummm, no.

Bringing, say, a pack of paper towels or an air bed out of backstock because it's out on the shelf and the customer wants it--perfectly A-OKAY.

Bringing down a box of Hot Wheels so somebody can dig through it in hopes of finding the one car out of 18 billion trillion manufactured that might be worth more than the purchase price--not okay. The person isn't going to find what they're after anyway, they're not going to be courteous enough to clean up and put all the toys back in the box, and all you've done is waste time for no good reason.

There were already Hot Wheels cars in stock on the floor. They weren't the ones he was after.

Plus I've observed this guy digging through my pallet of freight and opening the boxes of Hot Wheels before I can even get them on the shelf, so I'm not inclined to cut him any slack.

[JustaCashier]

...... this old...[ ].....guy with glasses and a big white beard......

So Irv, whatcha got against Santa Claus?


Mike

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

So Irv, whatcha got against Santa Claus?

The guy hangs around little kids all the time.

[Erin]

When I worked at Walmart, someone took the cases of Hot Wheels out of the toy department, carried them into my fabric department (this was back when WM sold fabric) and dumped the boxes out on my cutting table. I was off showing someone where something was...came back to find the table covered with Hot Wheels (some were on the floor) and the guy was getting increasingly frustrated because he couldnt find the one he wanted.

He told me that he had back problems and couldnt bend over the pallet to rifle thru the freight to find his toys. I wanted to kick him in the spine. He left the mess on my table. I had to call Toys to get the person working over there to come and get their stuff off my table (Hot Wheel guy had taken his shopping cart with him, and someone had dumped my freight out on the floor from my shopping cart so they wouldnt have to walk to the front to find a cart)

[Boozy]

I kinda would say the customer didn;t suck.

Just a reminder that it's okay to ask for some clarification if you're unsure where the problem lies, but we have a policy against announcements about "failing to see the suck".

IPF explained what made this guys particularly annoying, so clarification has been provided.

[Mnemjian]

Definitely a sucky guy. At our work people like to rummage through our "new arrivals" section and get it all out of order. The problem? It's not a new arrivals section, it's where we put the books so we can sort and organize them to be put on the shelves!! People need to learn to wait until merchandise is actually on display for them to look through.

[protege]

Damn...and I thought *I* was bad about my cars

That is, I've been known to rummage through the bins at a certain hobby shop across town. I'm more of a Matchbox guy, but still Anyhoo, I'll go through the bins looking for older releases--the shop occasionally buys up collections. If I do take cars (which are wrapped in tiny plastic bags) out, I always put them back. Best find to date, was a beat-up VW 1600TL fastback.

Another favorite brand, is Dinky. Unfortunately, these were never really sold here. Too bad, since the detailing is pretty good, and they did some offbeat cars--Monteverdi (a Swiss make) anyone?

[mikoyan29]

I used to collect the newer Star Wars figures, but I would never ask anyone to bring figures from the back or rifle through new boxes. Besides, I think some of the comic shops had an in around this area so the "rare" figures would only be found there. But then I'd ruin the value and take them out of their plastic prison. I figured the reason why old STar Wars figures were worth something was because people played with them and so the ones in the package were rare. In this case it seemed like it was people my age collecting them and keeping them in packages...so they wouldn't be quite as rare.

[Kristev]

All I collect is playing cards and tarot cards. And I don't ruin or rummage through them, or expect people to give me access to their backstock.

But I have been known to buy used decks and samples people were just going to throw away, and you know, they work fairly well.

[fireheart]

I'm glad I don't run into this sort of issue....

Instead I get people wanting just our boxes. Which are crushed so no dice.