Talk:Toy scalping

Is it considered scalping if a kitbasher buys mutiple voyager fallens to make "leader" sized fallens to sell on ebay?TOM 14:55, 8 July 2010 (EDT)

No, that's something else.--Jimsorenson 14:59, 8 July 2010 (EDT)

Is toy scalping real?

Proposed addition:

There's some question about whether toy scalping is a real problem, or just a perceived one. The four largest American toy retailers (Toys R Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart) have approximately 6000 stores between them in the US (not counting the many other places Transformers are sold). To produce an artificial national scarcity of a popular toy would therefore require a large and coordinated organization. No such organization is known to exist. Since scalping is not specifically illegal (or likely to attract police attention even where it's a gray area), said organization wouldn't have any need for strict secrecy, and therefore the simplest explanation for why it's not known to exist, is because it doesn't. While there are certainly scalpers producing local shortages, any widespread scarcity of a popular toy is probably because the toy is popular.