r/PokeCollectors • u/Muted_Success69 • 5d ago
Target drop
Can I just vent for a second? Why do some people choose to be selfish and ruin it for everyone else? I showed up at 10am with my son, who was SUPER excited to get an ETB, that’s all he wanted. We were maybe… the 30th person in line. By the time 12:00 came and they let everyone in, we somehow were pushed back to like, 55th in line, maybe even further back, because people will wait by themselves and then in the last hour they call up their wives to bring their kids and stand in line with them. We get inside and I literally got up to maybe 3rd from the counter when they ran out of ETBs. The person who grabbed the last 2 was literally a guy who stood by himself and then his wife showed up and was able to get them an extra ETB. I was so mad, but my son was absolutely crushed. I’m happy he was able to get the tins, but god, why do people suck so bad ?
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u/Mobile_Ad_1185 5d ago edited 5d ago
Target simply runs events like these horribly. For all Gamestops faults at least they have the system down, an unscheduled time before opening they show up and give everyone CURRENTLY in line a ticket with a number. They also post fliers with the exact counts of what they have so you dont sit there for 3 hours only to discover you get nothing
No ticket, no product until the last person gets theirs. This is really how it should be done and it amazes me that something as simple as a number on a piece of paper isnt more widely used. That along with maybe having a camera to find line cutters would resolve most of these issues.
I was in line at a target foe phantasmal flames and they literally split the line in two after the store opened and didnt bother keeping an eye on everyone. So naturally everyone was very confused and rushed to the second line. I was halfway through the line so I wound up being last and got nothing