@retrovintage yea, mine “shipped” Saturday but they didn’t get picked up by fedex until Monday.
Check the Target Web site again if you haven't gotten Warbird yet. She's not up for shipping, but she does now show up for online order and in-store pickup at most stores in my region.
She showed that way on release day, but I placed orders at six different stores before I actually did get one. The first five all failed and stock went to zero back then, but recently it appears stock is showing again.
Thanks for the heads up, @enigmaticclarity. All 8 stores within 20 miles of me still show zero stock. I was never able to get her and I'm still relatively frustrated by it. She's everywhere on ebay for twice retail price, but I'm just not willing to do that for this figure, at least not yet. I'm just going to continue to hope for a broader re-release later.
Just went to a Target. Their web site said they had 2 left, but I saw 9 on the shelves. Man their inventory control sucks now.
I don't think Warbird is all that popular, so finding 9 on the shelves is about what I would expect.
Thanks for the heads up, @enigmaticclarity. All 8 stores within 20 miles of me still show zero stock. I was never able to get her and I'm still relatively frustrated by it. She's everywhere on ebay for twice retail price, but I'm just not willing to do that for this figure, at least not yet. I'm just going to continue to hope for a broader re-release later.
I suggest finding the DPCI--it's on the product item web page for every item Target sells--calling some of those local stores, and asking customer service to look up Warbird by the DPCI. Their in-store inventory system is totally separate from the one that feeds their web site, and it's usually accurate. Ask them if they can hold it for you at Customer Service. Maybe the person is willing to do it, and maybe they're not. Usually they will help you, but about 1 in 3 times they'll tell me they can't do it. Call another store and odds are if that store has it someone will hold it for you. If not consider a trip to the store anyway, because if their internal inventory system shows it as being in the store it almost always is, somewhere. If they won't hold it for you and you want to go in ask them where the system says it is in the store. The system tracks that, although some employees don't know that and will tell you they don't know where it is. They're wrong, but they probably just don't know where item location shows up in the system.
I bet you find her at a local store if you do this. I've landed MANY figures this way, and saved myself many trips.
@enigmaticclarity Sir, whereabouts are you located?
Central Virginia, I live in zip 23222. This is the store that still says it has 2 left, but there were actually 9 in the store a few days ago:
https://www.target.com/sl/virginia-center%20commons/1019
Three were on the pegs in the Marvel aisle, and on an endcap there were another 6 of them.
Hit up two more Targets over the weekend and no joy in Mudville...
Spotted a single Carnage at one of my local stores.
@enigmaticclarity Sir, whereabouts are you located?
Central Virginia, I live in zip 23222. This is the store that still says it has 2 left, but there were actually 9 in the store a few days ago:
https://www.target.com/sl/virginia-center%20commons/1019
Three were on the pegs in the Marvel aisle, and on an endcap there were another 6 of them.
Thanks for that.
Anybody finding these around NYC metro? PopFindr keeps coming up blanks, but I'm wondering how accurate that is. Seeing a number of them on eBay, shipped from the NE.
PopFindr keeps coming up blanks, but I'm wondering how accurate that is.
Popfindr and Brickseek just report back whatever the retail store's web-based interface reports to them. Target's inventory tracking is absolute crap starting 2 to 3 years ago, so it's not at all accurate. Before Covid was in full swing they were pretty good with their inventory control, but since 2021 they're just awful.
That store I mentioned with 2 showing on target.com and 9 actually in the store is reporting 3 from Popfindr. That's consistent with how Target MEANS for their inventory control to work. For years I've consistently seen Target's web site report one less available for pickup than they actually have in the store. Popfindr and Brickseek have always returned one more than whatever Target's web site reports, which I assume is the slack they give their employees to go out and pick the item purchased online before an in-store customer buys one. But that's how it's SUPPOSED to work. It hasn't worked that way in years for the most part--they screw up constantly and with no apparent pattern.
I complain about Target a lot--for good reason--but to be fair most retail stores don't even TRY to track inventory online and in stores accurately because they know it's quite difficult. Walmart's systems are designed to support it, but they have done it even worse than Target for 5+ years so they mostly don't even try anymore. The problem with Target is they're still trying to do it, but they're just terrible at it now. If they're not going to spend the resources to do the tracking they should just stop trying to do it. Clearly some corporate change occurred in 2021. They either started taking shortcuts, or maybe someone in management left and their replacement didn't fully know how to direct employees to do the job their systems were designed to do.
Spotted a single Carnage at one of my local stores.
I also see it available for pickup on Target's website at multiple stores in my region.
What are the odds that Venom actually ships next week?
Wal-Mart charged by cc yesterday - Venom and Warlord Professor X are the only things I have on order from them, and the charge is the right amount for both. Unless this is a periodic authorization charge (which I didn't think Wal-Mart did) then they might be coming soon.
I also got pre-auths from Walmart.com for these - even the order I canceled which is a bit concerning. Venom and Xavier should also be shipping from Walmart Canada by the end of this week or early next.
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