Written by Recently we put a spotlight on mass pre-order cancellations at Walmart.
Routinely occurring with collectibles ordered during Walmart’s Collector Con (a virtual event where Walmart offers exclusive collectibles from major brands)….
…pre-order cancellations for their offerings have become so surmountable that the event has been dubbed “Cancel Con” by the community.
Most recently it has been occurring with Masterverse “Vintage Collection” Figures, where dozens of fans were complaining that they were receiving emails from Walmart stating that their pre-orders would no longer be filled.
Yet, on eBay, there is a seller for instance that calls themselves WSI (possibly Warrior Sale Incorporated? based on their store link?) that has already sold 13 of the new Masterverse “Vintage Collection” Beast Man figures at inflated pricing…
…as well as hundreds of other recent Masterverse “Vintage Figures” as well at inflated pricing…
Now we are not going to speculate on where exactly stock like this comes from. We just don’t know, but it is natural to make an assumption that the more stock is available on eBay at inflated prices… the less stock there is available at Walmart’s distribution centers to fill pre-orders.
We hope this issue is something that Mattel can at least take a look at…. and perhaps with Walmart’s assistance, improve upon in the future.
We’ll see you next time.
I’ve seen that seller’s name pop up before when in connection with rare figures that they seem to have in abundance.
Definitely weird that they have all this stock that is supposed to be exclusively for Walmart.
How scary! Isn’t it? The Mer-Man debacle led me to the same conclusion, as I had no reason to speculate sooner on the matter, since the availability of both MAA and Teela was pretty widespread in my country… hurray?!
Could those sellers be walmart employees??
Another possibility, there is a hot wheels collector and a pokemon collector in my area and I know for a fact that they both give out their phone numbers to employees at Walmart, target and even stop and shop. They give htf items or cash in return for employees putting aside things for them. I’m sure others do this as well
I heard of employees doing it before but not at this amount. That is a lot of figures!
Somebody said Mattel should hire a couple of private dicks and get to the bottom of it. I agree.
Holy shit that is a shitload of figures for one seller.
I mean if these are Walmart exclusives I do have a faint idea about where that stock might come from 😝
For the consumers it does not matter if its incompetence or neglegence; Walmart needs to fix that ASAP and Mattel needs to stop using them for exclusives until they did.
It could be happening at the port of entry before it gets to Walmart.
I mean not that it will matter but someone should send Walmart an email and include pics of the sellers inventory
@brasco AJ tagged Mattel and Walmart on the social media posts. Hopefully someone is paying attention.
@yen1893
104 VC Mer Man figures and counting…
This is no small operation. At those quantities it’s two pallets easy.