Amazon is a potential resource but availability can still be sketchy and when an item goes out of stock or is difficult to find, the scalpers come crawling out. A good example are the separate track packs. They are very useful but almost impossible to find at big box retail. You can find them on Amazon as well as other “marketplace” sites, being sold by secondary market sellers at stupidly high prices.
My frustration right now is that my son’s major Christmas gift is supposed to be the deluxe “All Around Sodor” version of the Talking Thomas and Percy set. It seems to be a limited exclusive through Target in the US and TRU in Canada. It’s out of stock in the US and neither Amazon nor Walmart have it. But it’s been featured in Target’s mail out catalog and it was on Fisher Price’s site at one point, so he knows about it and Santa can’t just easily swap the smaller, mass market set.
My frustration right now is that my son’s major Christmas gift is supposed to be the deluxe “All Around Sodor” version of the Talking Thomas and Percy set. It seems to be a limited exclusive through Target in the US and TRU in Canada. It’s out of stock in the US and neither Amazon nor Walmart have it. But it’s been featured in Target’s mail out catalog and it was on Fisher Price’s site at one point, so he knows about it and Santa can’t just easily swap the smaller, mass market set.
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