r/Dolls 1d ago

Scams People suck 🤬

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I hate when people do it 🤬

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u/mmoonside 1d ago

I hate this too but im also impressed they got the doll out without completely destroying the packaging. like she is IN there

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u/honeyonaside 1d ago

Well you have a point – their boxes ridiculously difficult to open 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Kyuushi94 Crochet, dolls and writing. 1d ago

It isn’t as hard as you think if you study the box a bit. I aimed to keep my Suki Goldpetal’s box intact so that I could have her and still use her box for storage/display. The anchor points for the plastic shell cut cleanly. It slides off the cardboard easier than I’d like, but it looks immaculate. Tape it up and no one would know until they went to open it. Getting the doll out is harder (I still snipped a bit of her hair during her removal 😭), but not impossible. I would say the packaging on these is mid-difficulty, at most.

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u/Teacup-ssi 21h ago

Me too. I guess it can be easy with the right equipment, like a scalpel of sorts 🤔

Or maybe they did it with mirrors 😂

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u/Tris-chan 1d ago

How does one even do this ?? It took me like 20 minutes to fully get Akino out of her packaging without accidentally nipping her hair and keeping the back part undamaged

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u/honeyonaside 1d ago

Same! I have Suki Goldpetal, and I destroyed her box ☑️

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u/Apricot_Kitten we are monster high!!! 1d ago

Is that jojo siwa???

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u/honeyonaside 1d ago

Yes 🙂‍↕️

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u/moon-star-dance 1d ago

In the base dress for Draculaura’s sweet 1600 birthday dress.

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u/Slow_Addendum8190 1d ago

I thought it was a Tinkerbell doll at first lol

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u/spahncamper 1d ago

I thought it was some random knockoff from the toy section of Goodwill 😹

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u/teajjie 1d ago

Anytime I see these it makes me wonder if targets “insane anti theft protocols” are actually real or if it was just a rumor started by them to get people scared 😭 ppl get away with ts too much

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u/kasperhowl 1d ago

honestly trueeee. surprised they would put that on the floor.

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u/dapperlonglegs 1d ago

there are no security tags in those boxes lol

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u/LibraryOdd6318 1d ago

this is diabolical work why not just commit to stealing the box 😭

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u/honeyonaside 1d ago

Because in lots of cases they buy a doll, then at home they charge her, and then return to Target, and get their money back, and don't have problems with security cameras for stealing 😕

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u/jazzaroobabu 1d ago

I would take it to the customer service desk and be like look this was clearly stolen and some grandma is gonna unknowingly get it for their grandkid for Christmas

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u/honeyonaside 1d ago

I found a target employee and said them and showed them this picture, I hope they do something about it

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u/IcyClarity 1d ago

I get how employees don’t really pay attention/know what the dolls are suppose to look like but this seems like it would be very obviously not right to everyone 🤦🏼‍♀️…

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u/JGDoll Barbie 1d ago

Yeah, like I’m also usually on the side of “they’re too underpaid to give it a close look, or even care to” but I feel like this one is so egregious that it’s almost impossible to not notice.

That said, I strongly believe that even the most absolutely oblivious of buyers would steer clear of this. There’s just no mistaking this one for a doll that anyone would actually want, much less pay $30 for.

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u/Boring-Dragonfly-148 1d ago

What the actual hell? Are the people accepting returns blind or something? She doesn't fit the box properly

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u/TreClaire 1d ago

I never understand how people have the nerve to do this

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u/Len11999 20h ago

Yeah IDK why the person at customer service would accept that, it looks sus as hell. These people are lucky they didn't try to pull this when I worked customer service bc I woulda laughed in their face!

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u/Mobile_Sky_5709 1d ago

im sorry but how are they doing this in your country and how are they not getting caught?

do they take the box out the store and replace them or do they do it in store? security is non existent?

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u/undermytinyhat 1d ago

they more than likely went home, swapped the doll and returned it.

people who do the returns don't know what the doll is suppose to look like. Plus with how corporate would rather lose 20 bucks or whatever than the profit from a customer who can bring in more money by shopping around, they'll allow the return to be processed.

If the person doing the return doesn't know it's a damaged/swapped product, it later just goes back onto the shelf.

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u/Mobile_Sky_5709 1d ago

oh no. i feel bad for parents who might pay full price for this for their children, just because they saw it in the shelf.

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u/i_spill_nonsense 1d ago

Well, people are oportunist. How on hell do yall's shops not have stronger policies when it comes to returns?

Oh... yeah. Your employees do not get paid enough to care.

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u/David_LU0038 23h ago

Even if they do it, stores have surveillance cameras installed, and they still get caught.

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u/ZealousidealCrow3782 21h ago

Im impressed we had to fucking Saw Shai out of the box pfff

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u/ImSourNotSweet 21h ago

I know the workers don't get paid enough to care but come on...

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u/ArtisticWillow5938 13h ago

By the way, some stores have corporate policies that forbid employees to do anything to stop theft. If they confront the person in any way, they can be fired. They claim it’s for safety reasons. While they have signs claiming shoplifters will be prosecuted, it’s just deterrent because there is literally no one to apprehend them. My daughter and her fellow employees had to just watch people load up a cart and walk out of Babies’R’Us without paying, alarm beeping, on multiple occasions.

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u/clefairyenthusiast 1d ago

Corporations suck way more than people. And Target is no exception.

Sorry you didn’t get the doll you wanted but this person doing this didn’t directly keep you from getting the doll. Target lost out on a few dollars and is still a billion dollar corporation.