Wow, I really wanted this one and had been waiting for weeks for it! Figured I’d jump on it when I got home from work…you know, work? That thing that most of us have to do during the day?
Never got a chance…
SOLD OUT IN LESS THAN 5 HOURS??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
“Members only” and “Limit 2 Per Customer” doesn’t seem to have done a thing! And there’s already some scumbag scalper trying to sell one for $550 on ePay! F*** that!
Mattel, you need to do better than this! You promoted the hell out of this thing and you should have known what the demand was likely to be! You could have made 5x, 10x the number of these that you apparently made. What good does it do you or your customers not to have done so? “Engineered scarcity” doesn’t reflect well on you as an organization when the end result is pissing people off!
So what do you think, dear readers? Should I send a nastygram to “Mattel Creations” and demand my membership fee back? Doesn’t seem like its going to do me much good if I’m going to wind up buying what I want from scalpers anyway!
So now I’m reminded of why I never bothered joining this club in the past! I’m salivating for that Mercedes 600 limo with 4 opening doors that’s supposed to hit later this year. If this same thing happens again when that one drops, I’m out!
That kind of thing always really pissed me off, the intentional scarcity to create demand and even more so, those scalper types that not only cause but compound the problem. 🙁