Sunday, March 29, 2009

Hunting Report 28.03.09

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TESCO SEMENYIH (This gonna be a long story)
My atention was given more to this Tesco since it has not restocked in a while. It was a rainy day that day I remember (creating atomosphere...haha). People were driving very slowly and the jam to Tesco through Semenyih Town was a slow crawl. Once I reached, I alighted from the car and went straigh to the hotwheels department and wouldn't you know it, a Tesco girl was pushing a trolley with 2 boxes of hotwheels to "top up" the racks(In her own words). Because of the promo on hotwheels, basically the single carded hotwheels are placed at 2 different locations in most if not all Tescos, one which is the normal place in the Toy Department ailse and the other at the freakishly high rack, out of reach from adults let alone children. Anyway once I reached the racks near the toy ailse, I saw a regular qombee, Yippee!! Grabbed that and then proceeded to search for the girl pushing the troley to top up the freakishly high rack. As I reached she was not there, so I opened the already "opened" case and what do you know, a regular camaro. Now just when I was about to check the other case, an "Uncle" with tinted spectacles, a cap and a moustache came with a Tesco boy. The Uncle saw me holding the camaro and and looked quite annoyed. Then the Tesco Boy and the man said something to each other which I cannot hear and then the Tesco boy came and said to me that the Uncle is here to buy the whole box for his "shop". I said can buy a whole box ka?. "Call your manager" but it turns out the supervisor(I think) was nearby so he came over and I said can people book whole box, not first come first serve for items sold in Tesco? Supervisor said No. Everything is sold to anyone without prior booking policy. So since I was first at the box, I opened the second one, ai $uper and regular Camaro right on top(the uncle managed to say some 4 letter word-will not reveal otherwise you will know his race), grabbed that, the Reverb and Baja bug and I thought ok time to go before this gets out of hand...Before I went, the uncle managed to ask "Collector ah?", I looked at him and then answered Yah, pointed at the boxes and said to him "your turn". Went to counter paid and went home.
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Today I went back to Tesco Semenyih and saw that all the cars have been fitted into anti theft see through plastic boxes which is half of the hotwheels card size so they folded each hotwheels card almost in half to fit into the anti theft hotwheels boxes....unbe..freaking..liveable...who is gonna collect hotwheels from here now, but hey I will still grab a thunt folded or not...hehe

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Hunting Report 27.03.09

Tescco Kajang
Today they restocked 1 box super qombee wave. Normally Kajang Tesco restocks more than that but as with Semenyih they have only been restocking 1 box as of late. Perhaps this is due to previous experiences not to over order a certain particular wave or else suffer the glut of stocks later on. Anyway found my way there in the morning which I usually don't go and snagged these. This is my 2nd super qombee....
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Hunting Report 23/03/09

Tesco Kajang - still the DK wave 50% on the rack

Giant Kajang - The super qombee or none at all wave but no super qombee in sight. Took both blue evo X from here. No pictures.

Alamanda Putrajaya Carrefour - Everybody shout ALAMANDA. The GMC Motorhome is here. Only 1 box restocked on the racks. Other places like parkson, Cold Storage are still stuck with the DK wave.

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Thats all folks

Friday, March 20, 2009

Hunting Report 20/03/09

BERJAYA TIMES SQUARE
Was meeting a friend from Hong Kong today so went around hunting before that in Berjaya Times Square.
Cold Storage - no new wave. Still the bad bagger wave as far as I can see, racks a still pretty full all around the ailes. But the 3 pack cars has just been restocked. All the new wave 3 packs are on the racks now.
Metrojaya - nothing much...still the DK wave and whats left which is actually quite a lot....around 75% still on the racks.

Sungai Wang/ BB plaza
Parkson - nothing nothing, nothing, I think they are doing some clearing and cleaning, not one hotwheels single carded in sight.

Metrojaya - Ah my one and only haul for the day. As I walked to the racks I saw a green card. When I picked it up, it wasthe good old 300c...nostalgia I tell you...Anyway grabbed that along with a black aston martin vantage.....
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Isetan - just resotcked with the Super qombee or none at all wave. Well no super qombee or blue evos in sight but the rest of the cars are all there....if you missed some of the other cars in this wave, go there now. I did not take a thing from here.

Well thats all the time I had. Met my friend and chit chatted in Starbucks after that.....Found out my friend is staying in an apartment in Hong Kong which rental is HK$68000 per month......O my gosh!!! Wonder if I can interest him in collecting hotwheels....hmmmmm