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  • #1

    Invisible CX-5

    OK--is this a new series of invisible models?


    Came across something really weird at Walmart today. A Mazda CX-5 blister that had been sealed from the factory with nothing in it. It almost came home with me; but I didn't want to pay for a card with no model. I would have asked if I would have been able to get it free, but I doubted it; so I just left it.



    No signs of being messed with; other than a typically curled bottom. Forgot to get a shot of the card back.

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  • #2
    The first photo makes it seem like there's a crack in the blister? Though it is not as apparent in the second one.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Stampede View Post
      The first photo makes it seem like there's a crack in the blister? Though it is not as apparent in the second one.
      Now that you mention it, I think that may be the culprit. I didn't notice it when I saw it on the pegs, but did. The way I look at it, it seems as if it may have been sliced.

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      • #4
        While I could see this maybe a rare happening in packaging at the factory I would find it strange that a clerk would put an empty blister on the pegs...but then stranger things have happened at big box stores. Maybe this is a special ghost Halloween edition.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by cody6268 View Post

          Now that you mention it, I think that may be the culprit. I didn't notice it when I saw it on the pegs, but did. The way I look at it, it seems as if it may have been sliced.
          I find blistered Matchbox and Hotwheels fairly often with one end of the blister blown out, not victims of crimes but rather of bad plastic. There was a thread about it over at the old Swifty's before TT took over....I've seen a few just in the past few weeks, the model still in the package, or lying loose on the shelf below the empty blister still hanging on a peg above. But one end of the blister/bubble is cracked/popped open and kinda functions like a door. (Of course, I've also found empty blisters with no sign of the model anywhere in the store...)

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          • #6
            Maybe a clerk would see it on the shelf and take it to wherever they put this kind of thing for cataloging losses, or they might be lazy and just hang the empty card back on the pegs.
            Doug

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Douglas View Post
              Maybe a clerk would see it on the shelf and take it to wherever they put this kind of thing for cataloging losses, or they might be lazy and just hang the empty card back on the pegs.
              I've seen the worst-case scenario....(but the chain that did it went bankrupt and has been out of business around here about a year now)....and that's where someone steals the "Exclusive" model from a 9-pack (HW or Matchbox, both brands affected) and the store refuses to discount the package*, expecting/hoping someone will pay the 9-pack price for an 8-pack...but I also saw the right thing just this week, where a multipack missing one model was marked down a dollar from the 'regular' price! (*I took a 9-pack missing the exclusive to the store's customer service department and said it was unlikely they'd ever sell it at MSRP with the 'special' attraction model gone/stolen. Next time I was in the store, there it was back on the shelf at full price!)

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              • #8
                I doubt the retailers care, it's built into their business model.

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