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Post by Stardust on Sept 25, 2015 19:44:43 GMT -5
Hey Zelfies, namely my fellow Canucks so the unthinkable happened to me yet AGAIN! As some of you may know, I found 11 Snowphies at Walmart stores Christmas of 2014. Over the past week I've noticed new Zelfs/Shopkins displays in Walmarts and of course have been looking through ALL of them just because, well, Zelfs! I found a Snowphie at one Walmart Wednesday and had a laugh because of how many I'd found last year. Then yesterday, I found another! So I decided today "what the heck, I'll try the 'dead' Walmart way out in the boonies to see what's up" and MAN what a find! SIX rares in one display!! Two Jewelys, three CleoCats and one more Snowphie!! I nearly had a heart attack!! So Canadians!! Get to your Walmarts and buy those rares!! ♡
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Post by Batrina on Sept 25, 2015 19:51:03 GMT -5
oh WOW! I'll be going to my walmart when I get money next week ;_; I hope I find something, I dont have any rares yet!
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Post by magpie on Sept 25, 2015 19:54:40 GMT -5
No wonder I can't find snowphie anywhere, you have them all XD (I need jewely too) Would you be willing to trade a pearleen for one of your snowphies?
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Post by Blossom on Sept 26, 2015 7:10:23 GMT -5
Wow! What a find! I've been to loads of shops and haven't managed to spot a single rare in any of them yet, keeping my fingers crossed!
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Post by Dragonflitter on Sept 26, 2015 12:00:21 GMT -5
Wow that is awesome! ^_^ Congrats!
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Post by Garny on Sept 26, 2015 12:15:58 GMT -5
Yowzers, what a great haul!
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Post by genevieve on Sept 26, 2015 20:30:35 GMT -5
What are you going to do with them?
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Post by Stardust on Sept 27, 2015 10:05:07 GMT -5
No wonder I can't find snowphie anywhere, you have them all XD (I need jewely too) Would you be willing to trade a pearleen for one of your snowphies? I'd be interested in trading a Snowphie for a Pearleen I'll pm you! Thanks for the congrats everyone, I still cant believe my luck ^^ as for what I'm going to do with them? Trade them for more Zelfs, of course depending on how long Zelfs last, these could come in extremely handy getting future rares and other potentially hard to find Zelf stuff.
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Post by Violet on Sept 27, 2015 17:52:55 GMT -5
I'm going to take a wild guess and say something's a little off about the distribution of the rares. Sigh. We never get them in Alabama at all. Ever. Never had.
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Post by Stardust on Sept 27, 2015 18:37:19 GMT -5
I'm going to take a wild guess and say something's a little off about the distribution of the rares. Sigh. We never get them in Alabama at all. Ever. Never had. Canada is a lot smaller than the US, plus we have an entirely different distributor who does giveaways and they DO distribute old giveaway rares to stores like Walmart bc both of the Jewelys I got last week had both of their "not for resale" stickers covered up (I have a few of the giveaway Jewelys so I compared them). Maybe that's why we see such a high concentration of them every year or so? I'm not sure :/ they just started the Snowphie giveaway so perhaps they had extras of those to throw into the Walmart assortments? Zelfs distribution here is EXTREMELY spotty. I've never seen a rare anywhere except Walmart, and I was told by our distributor the Bee Sweet Tree House playset would arrive in June, it just showed up on the TRU website two days ago. Showcase is the only store that carried S4 Supers until last week when Walmart started stocking S3 supers with one S4 mixed into the lot for whatever reason. Idk! Canada's distribution is weird. Sorry you've never found one, though
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Post by PrincessTiffy on Sept 27, 2015 21:50:16 GMT -5
Wow you really do have great luck! Send some my way lol. Congrats on another amazing find!
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Post by Starkle on Sept 29, 2015 5:18:41 GMT -5
Oh my Stardust!!! (fans zelf to stop swooning!) XD Wow, I can't believe your luck!!!
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Post by genevieve on Sept 29, 2015 8:48:12 GMT -5
Meh. I feel like the biggest disadvantage for American Zelf collectors is the lack of distributors. If only our Walmarts had them..
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Post by Stardust on Sept 29, 2015 9:14:39 GMT -5
Meh. I feel like the biggest disadvantage for American Zelf collectors is the lack of distributors. If only our Walmarts had them.. It's not a lack of distributors, actually- the distributor for any brand in a country is the same distributor that ships throughout the entire country. Our distributor, Imports Dragon, does Moose toys' brands for Canada and they ship to every store in Canada that will carry them (TONS of stores in Québec carry Zelfs *envious*). The issue in the US is that Toys "R" Us is the only store willing to carry them, not that there aren't enough distributors. Shopkins are most likely distributed by the same company that does Zelfs for the US, and it seems like they've predominantly shifted their focus onto the cash cow that Shopkins has become. It really sucks that you guys are having a hard time finding Zelfs over there :/ I wish for your guys' sake more stores would see that they are indeed worthy of some shelf space
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Post by Violet on Oct 2, 2015 11:53:44 GMT -5
Yeah, we can find Shopkins everywhere now, but the same stores that are now carrying Shopkins are refusing to carry Zelfs for whatever reason. I wish I liked Shopkins more than Zelfs, because I can go to any Walmart or Target and get those now. Sigh.
Anyway, congrats on your amazing luck in finding all of those.
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Post by Snap Jack on Oct 5, 2015 15:06:49 GMT -5
Same ! Found two Jewely, one Snowphie and three Cleocat ! And this : Damn ! Haha, and on my way, I also found a 20$ bill on the groud : That was such a lucky day.
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Post by Stardust on Oct 5, 2015 15:21:15 GMT -5
Same ! Found two Jewely, one Snowphie and three Cleocat ! And this : Damn ! Haha, and on my way, I also found a 20$ bill on the groud : That was such a lucky day. OMZ That is AWESOME Snap Jack!! Total drag about the stolen Zelf :/ it makes me so mad when people steal! HUGE congrats on all of your rares and that $20 bill! ♡
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Post by catsby on Oct 9, 2015 14:19:55 GMT -5
Would anyone be willing to pick up a set of these for me and ship to the US? I would so appreciate it. Im especially i terested in Jewely as my cat's name is Jewel and i call her Jewely as a nickname. Thank you.
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Post by Ziraous on Oct 10, 2015 3:10:16 GMT -5
Wow, Gratz you two!! I am not gonna lie, I am pretty jelly. xD
Idk the distribution in the US seems off to me. Like.. I knew wolf a person who got 5 Pearleens at the TRU Allentown in Pennsylvania in ONE day! He didn't sell one to me because he wanted $75 for each of them and I told him I was a friend and that is ridiculous... so needless to say...people you think you can rely on will stab you if they are greedy... He knew NOTHING of Zelfs until I asked him to check his TRU for me... he then looked them up on eBay and whatnot. I feel like I hurt the Zelf community by asking this friend to help in my search. -.-
Anyways, I am so glad for you both though! ^^
I was curious...my Sister LOVEs Egyptian things. And CleoCat would just be so perfect for her! Would you, Stardust, consider possibly selling one to me for her? I'm gonna send it to her for winter holidays as a gift. ^^; If you could PM me about details such as price etc that would be so very lovely! ^^
(Currently working on a deal for Pearleen with another member. I do have 1 trade feedback in my thread at the moment.)
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Post by bechewful on Oct 25, 2015 10:35:50 GMT -5
Canadian walmarts may have been restocked again! I live in Toronto and went to 4 walmarts! Every location had Zelfs and this is the first time I've seen them evenly distributed across the Walmart stores. Only 2 of the locations had rares though. I didn't see any Snowphies but I was able to grab 2 jewely's and one CLEOCAT!! I found her at the very last location, got lucky..
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