I was at a Target in Waukesha WI (suburb of Milwaukee) last Friday, and was completely disgusted by the way a fellow "collector" acted. Like most places we have been out of regular stock for months. I did notice there was some product on the shelf so as I walked behind checkouts to check out what they had, this guy (mid to late 40's) his mom, and a pre teen kid were standing there. As I approached I hear the guy say "grab all of those mom" and she scoops up 8 to 10 boxes of Archives. The guy had 8 to 10 hangars of Chrome. As this happened I said rather loudly "Are you serious?" there were a few fat packs of Archives but was so disgusted with this dudes actions I just kept walking. I circled back after looking for something else that has been out of stock in our area for 3 weeks, (cheese breadsticks). I just think it is ridiculous that these people, who probably are not even fans or collectors are just out to make a buck, by being greedy and selfish. The other example of this is I saw a box of Topps Fire on ebay and the opening bid was 175. That is more than double the retail price. Baseball cards will not help you survive the zombie apocalypse let the rest of us enjoy them as well.
This reminds me of the idiots I used to deal with at Kmart, that would call/come in and ask if any new Hot Wheels cases had been delivered. They wanted to cherry pick the rare ones out. And even though they had been told but staff and management that we could not do that, it never stopped them from trying.