Zur En Arrh Batman (Target)

[saban]

Kind of a bummer story. My store went from zero stock to 10/12 in stock over night. Showed up at Target this morning at 8:00 am (first one in the store). Went to the back by the new Funko section, asked the employee about them... The man told me, "they're probably in back, youll have to check back tomorrow". I explained that they were pretty high in demand and was hoping to be lucky enough to get 1 of each (batman & joker). Then the poor guy told me, "I will open these shipments when I feel like it, so go home and call back in 2 hours". So I just called back, and the same guy told me, "yeah, I got 3 total and someone just bought them all from me about 20 minutes ago". I explained that I was the one in the store earlier asking about them and the guy seemed to actually take pride in selling them from under me like that. Dang...Boohoo...

Seriously though, the guy was super rude in general.

I would totally speak to that guy's manager and send a letter to corporate. While the employee is under no obligation to hold items for customers, it doesn't give them permission to act so rudely. I probably would've talked to another associate to see if it was possible to have the shipment looked through while I waited. That has worked for me in the past when looking for other pops and tsum tsum blind bags.

[valorandvellum]

Not sure, but I should also clarify that this is when I ask an associate to look for stock in other stores, not when I use an online tracker. Maybe that has something to do with it..... or they're all lying to me

Oh gotcha! Could be that some of the employees are clueless/new too. I've talked on the phone to a couple Targets and one employee didn't know what I was talking about, and the other Target was pretty on point with answering my questions. Guess it's also luck of the draw for who you speak with, haha.

[HowardTheDuck]

Nice to see at least a couple people finding them. All I want is the Batman but...nothing yet.

[goheels0509]

Nice to see at least a couple people finding them. All I want is the Batman but...nothing yet.

Same here. I've already prepared myself that I'm most likely not going to find him.

[valorandvellum]

Do you think there's maybe a chance that Targets will keep getting more shipments this week? If so, I'll swing by mine every now and then and see if I can help anyone out. When I was there, it was just grandmas shopping so I don't think there's too much competition in my area. Unless one of the grandmas randomly sees a Batman and decides to buy it for little Johnny or whatever.

[HowardTheDuck]

Nice to see at least a couple people finding them. All I want is the Batman but...nothing yet.

Same here. I've already prepared myself that I'm most likely not going to find him.

Sad....

[jdcam1]

Not sure on the etiquette for this anymore, but I have an exclusive Joker I wanted to trade for the Batman, if someone has an extra.

[CaseyJones14]

Still no Batman in Kansas. Maybe one day

[Geescube]

I love the employees who say nothing is in stock before I can even provide a dpci. Cool. Manager escalation required, every single time. Alot of useless and unwilling employees there.

[rugbyplayer11]

Wells another day and more disappointment. I'm not sure there were any exclusives at all. Just suicide squad commons. I saw 12 at many locations, so that pretty much takes out someone getting them first.

[pop_jumper]

Does anyone have a quantity made on these? None at my targets when I got there.

I'd like to know, too. I have 12 "nearby" stores that show up when I check the system, and only 2 out of twelve had any in stock. That distribution can't be right.

[Chase Variant]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

[hawkman2]

Checked both my stores, nothing.

[treswright]

145 sold listings and 25 active on eBay just for the Zur Batman. I think it's pretty clear why most of us are having trouble finding these- flippers be flippin'.

[alu198944]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I have not found one, just Harley Quinn which I picked up

[jagpop]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I checked 4 different locations, came up empty handed.

[Strending625]

I checked back today for some odd reason I was hoping they might have brought out another case with maybe a 2nd joker for a board member or Zur batman but no such luck.

[rugbyplayer11]

Are we sure these are real. I think it's a government conspiracy to keep us from looking at the real problem....... ALIENS!

[valorandvellum]

Even though the brick numbers didn't change I just had this feeling that I should go to my Target again and look. There was another friggin' Batman!! The box is slightly jacked but I'm grabbing it so I can help one of you guys out. Can't believe how lucky I am.

[jasian]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I haven't found any at my close targets. One told me that they keep the exclusives behind the counter and have a limit one per person. However, you have to ask them if they have the exclusives cause they won't tell you. It's kind of a weird system but I guess it's good for the collectors. Whatevs

[HowardTheDuck]

Are we sure these are real. I think it's a government conspiracy to keep us from looking at the real problem....... ALIENS!

OMG....he's right.

[jasian]

Even though the brick numbers didn't change I just had this feeling that I should go to my Target again and look. There was another friggin' Batman!! The box is slightly jacked but I'm grabbing it so I can help one of you guys out. Can't believe how lucky I am.

DAAAAANG that's awesome, You're a natural Benjamin Franklin Gates!

[valorandvellum]

Here's the damage (literally):



I promised one person that they could have dibs and I PMed them the pics. If they want to pass on this, then I will post this in the thread that yellowrice shared and see if an OOB collector would like to have it. Or do some sort of giveaway.

[Strending625]

Here's the damage (literally):



I promised one person that they could have dibs and I PMed them the pics. If they want to pass on this, then I will post this in the thread that yellowrice shared and see if an OOB collector would like to have it. Or do some sort of giveaway.

If the person that does it before doesn't want it I would love it! OOB is the way to go!

[valorandvellum]

Sorry, looks like Batman got claimed by Lawliet (who had dibs). I highly doubt I'll be able to procure a 4th Batman, but I'll still try to keep an eye out this week.

[Sousschaefer27]

Went to 4 targets today with no luck. But they also didn't have any common SS pops either, so I'm hoping they just haven't received or put the shshipment out yet

[hawkman2]

I'll randomly be checking.

[jetsjeepfunko]

Between shady target employees and flippers safe to say I won't get this. Gonna pull the trigger once it hits PC, then go to target and nab a nice exclusive sticker

[arisensun]

Looks like I missed out on this one. I tried my best but the flippers beat me to it. I'll try to pick one up if prices fall or if it shows up later overseas.

[GottaHaveIt]

Looks good. Kinda wild the amount of hype surrounding it tho

[Shinfo13]

Not sure, but I should also clarify that this is when I ask an associate to look for stock in other stores, not when I use an online tracker. Maybe that has something to do with it..... or they're all lying to me

Oh gotcha! Could be that some of the employees are clueless/new too. I've talked on the phone to a couple Targets and one employee didn't know what I was talking about, and the other Target was pretty on point with answering my questions. Guess it's also luck of the draw for who you speak with, haha.

I realized today that I'm probably one of the few employees out there that have any idea what people are talking about as I answer all the calls from people looking for these. It must be weird because every time I've ever called a store like Walgreens or other Targets for Pops they have no idea what i'm talking about and I'm sure most people here have the same experience. People must be shocked to find a helpful employee for once.

Like I said earlier, good luck to anyone in the SoCal area. The flippers are out in force and i'm sure its gonna make finding these nearly impossible for alot of people. I saw a couple of them scoping out the Funko areas throughout the day and using the price scanners to make sure we weren't hiding them in the back or something. I'll keep an eye out for other on here if we receive any future shipments, but it sounds like Zur may have been limited to the initial release while Joker may come back in randomly with the other SS Pops.

[valorandvellum]

I realized today that I'm probably one of the few employees out there that have any idea what people are talking about as I answer all the calls from people looking for these. It must be weird because every time I've ever called a store like Walgreens or other Targets for Pops they have no idea what i'm talking about and I'm sure most people here have the same experience. People must be shocked to find a helpful employee for once.

Like I said earlier, good luck to anyone in the SoCal area. The flippers are out in force and i'm sure its gonna make finding these nearly impossible for alot of people. I saw a couple of them scoping out the Funko areas throughout the day and using the price scanners to make sure we weren't hiding them in the back or something. I'll keep an eye out for other on here if we receive any future shipments, but it sounds like Zur may have been limited to the initial release while Joker may come back in randomly with the other SS Pops.

Yeah, to be honest I was more surprised when I spoke with the employee who knew what Funko is

That is good to know that Batman probably won't be in the next shipments. I'll still try to keep an eye out this week, but I think I sucked my Target dry already

[jedik6]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I stumbled across one by pure accident when out looking for the Pets snowball

[Shinfo13]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I stumbled across one by pure accident when out looking for the Pets snowball

Do you happen to have the dpci for Snowball? I've been keeping an eye out for everyone and no store nearby has yet to recieve them. I can't find the dpci in our system and have yet to see a label out for it.

[DookSkyWalker]

Between shady target employees and flippers safe to say I won't get this. Gonna pull the trigger once it hits PC, then go to target and nab a nice exclusive sticker

Lmao

[blkvnyl]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I checked 4 different locations, came up empty handed.

I checked the Oxnard/Thousand Oaks Area and all commons as well.

[alu198944]

The oc has been nothing but ss commons, but I was able to pick up Harley so I guess yay, ugh

[jedik6]

Anyone in So Cal find one of these? Every store I checked got one case in, but they were full of commons.

I stumbled across one by pure accident when out looking for the Pets snowball

I wish. Failed to find it but found Batman instead .

[LION0371]

I love the employees who say nothing is in stock before I can even provide a dpci. Cool. Manager escalation required, every single time. Alot of useless and unwilling employees there.

And I thought I was the only person experiencing this situation.

[treswright]

Looks good. Kinda wild the amount of hype surrounding it tho

This happens whenever there's a new exclusive hitting the shelves. A sort of hysteria develops if people can't find it right away and the eBay prices shoot through the roof. That in turn encourages flippers to raid every store in their area to take advantage of the high resale price. It'll last until the next "gottahaveit" exclusive starts hitting shelves and then the price on this one should moderate a little or (hopefully) a lot.

I saw a couple of them scoping out the Funko areas throughout the day and using the price scanners to make sure we weren't hiding them in the back or something.

I really don't see how flippers make any money doing stuff like that. I mean you might make 30 or 40 bucks reselling a Pop, but you have to spend all day stalking the store to do it? Wouldn't your day be better spent, I don't know, working a real job?