Greed

[bambshelle-0]

I don't know how many discussions there may be about this already but I'm feeling so frustrated.

I love ebay, I love the American way and I love my grandchildren. 

But I hate the people who buy up all the popular toys and resale them at exbobitant profit.

It is the holiday season and y'all are making it more difficult for my granddaughter to get the toys she wants.  She has been through a lot including abuse and a long hard custody battle. Her dolls and toys are her comfort items. 

I hope every walmart employee or whoever is buying the toys all up and resaling them at extreme prices enjoys their profits knowing that a little girl who has to go to therapy because of things done to her by other hatefilled adults will be disappointed by Santa this year too.

[castlemagicmemories]

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@centexcompsvcs wrote:

Absolutely.   I did allude to that:

Can gift giving become the focus of Christmas instead of thanking the Lord for the gift of His Son (John 3:16)?   

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”

 Thanks.

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Yes, you did, sorry, I focused on the Wise Men giving statement.  Thank you for sharing.  Jesus is the reason for the season.  

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. Wikipedia

Celebrations: Gift-giving, family and other social gatherings, symbolic decoration, feasting etc

Observed by: Christians, many non-Christians

Significance: Commemoration of the Nativity of Jesus

Observances: Church services

Also called: Noël, Nativity, Xmas, Yule

Related to: Christmastide, Christmas Eve, 

[castlemagicmemories]

You are right~~many companies limit production.  This can make it hard for customers to find at an acceptable price.

The supply and demand scenario itself can drive up the price, and possibly this also guarantees that the item will be successful...no left overs after Christmas due to over production.

I remember one year they made so many Holiday Barbies, you could get one for ten dollars after Christmas.

[castlemagicmemories]

When I was a kid, Dancerina was the thing.  Seemed like EVERYONE had one!

I asked for one but Mom said, no.  They fall apart right away.  Sure enough, you could see them laying on garbage can lids on Trash Day all the time.

I got over it.

[genv]

What an abused child... NEEDS... is LOVE.

Love enough to TALK & LISTEN.

Love enough to explain MATERIAL things bring fleeting 'comfort'.

FAMILY and being HELD CLOSE brings REAL 'comfort'.

An abused child needs to know... they are NOT 'alone'.

That OTHER kids suffered... some died from  the abuse...

that OTHERS... STILL suffer.

An abused child understands OTHER kids MAY...

have NEEDED that 'toy'... MORE.

An adult who LOVES an abused child... EXPLAINS that.

[yuzuha]

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@fuzzface50 wrote:

If you watch something at walmart online, watch the listings for each individual store close to you or you are willing to go to anyways. They list how many we have in stock and can see when we get a new delivery in.  but because it just went from 0 stock to case lot of 12 in doesn't mean they will be there when the store open for you to pick up in person or i should rephrase that and say if you go to the store to buy it.  They can be gone when the store  doors opens at 7 because we have a group of pickers/pullers that come in earlier and we will receive online orders for our store during the early am hours and they start pulling those orders at 6 am, so those 12 could be sold and pulled off the shelf before the store opens making it look like it was all walmart employees hiding them because the website said we got 12 in that night.

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You don't know how many times I have had to explain that to customers.  Yes, the website might say we have it in stock, and yes, our inventory checkers will show it in stock, but it might be on a pallet in the stockroom waiting to be unpacked, and any online orders that come in overnight will be pulled before things get put on the shelves.

[mistwomandancing]

Just an aside in response to the main topic OP posted to.. the price of the JOJO doll.. I just see a Walmart ad online for the My Life As A JoJo Siwa Doll with the little dog (which I believe is the one OP was wanting for granddaughter) and see the Walmart price is now $106.99  !!! 

Had two reviews posted on that online Walmart ad, both saying they were glad they bought the same thing when Walmart had it priced earlier at only $39.99 so even Walmart marks up some of the hot items themselves, even when they'd been far cheaper to buy earlier in the season.  Didn't know it before, but apparently it makes sense when I stop and think about it...  even stores mark merchandise at various prices, depending on demand.  Just didn't realise Walmart also did this. 

[k-bar-ksaddles]

Man, we grew up blue collar poor. Never went without, but I don't know how, looking back.  We always had a good Christmas too - sometimes better than others, but what we got? My mom would scour stores for CLEARANCE items.  Toys that were LAST year's hot item, a cute shirt, a pretty necklace, Transformers (1st Gen and Go bots in my day for my brother) but they were never THE one to have RIGHT THEN.

Y'know what? Maybe it wasn't that Special Thing we went to bed dreaming about on Christmas Eve, but we were never truly disappointed.  And we grew up being able to cope with not getting THE HOTTEST DONGLE That Year.

My husband's grandmother was always the HOTTEST DONGLE granma... I remember how desperate she was to get a Tickle Me Elmo for my daughter, who was then 18 months old? Maybe 2? She enjoyed for about two days, if that long, then it was just one more Dongle she got for Christmas. 

I think the only 'toy' gift we've ever gotten them that held up to the test of time and their interest - and our own, was a PS3 and later, a PS4.  And they weren't the hot item to have that year.