I have to vent...

[Tasmen]

Clearly, you're a monster!

History's greatest even..

 

[MakiraMarlena]

STOP buying these things and selling them at your disposal for INSANE amount of money, leave these things to our children who want nothing more then to be the princess in the movie they love!

All you re-sellers should be ashamed of yourselves for taking away from young little girls who want to dress up like Anna and Elsa. Shame on you I cannot stress it enough!

Maybe you should get after the buyers who gladly fork over hundreds to thousands of dollars for a princess dress. If they can't get the price they won't sell for that.

They do restock - and the stock flies off the shelves as soon as they put it out. They don't have infinite numbers of these items. The popularity will need to die down first.

 

[kaybird]

In the parks a couple of weeks ago, and the homemade dresses were prettier by far!!!

 

[surferdave]

OP,

While everyone is drilling you on the virtues of free markets and lessons in patience and character for your children, I'll presume you already knew all that since you started by admitting you were just venting and say yes, I agree with you and share your disdain for these eBay'ers who will hoard up and try to flip merchandise that becomes hot with the children without adding any value to the process themselves. I hope every one of them has a warehouse full of John Carter and Lone Ranger toys that they took a six figure bath on.

I'd go with getting something nice made by someone on Etsy.com before I'd pay these people for the flimsy princess wear that Disney puts out.

Good luck!

 

[Kellykins1218]

Have you looked at Toys R Us? I thought I saw some there this weekend.

I see them at Toys R Us all the time. They have a huge Frozen selection of toys and dresses.

 

[3Gsandme]

OP,

While everyone is drilling you on the virtues of free markets and lessons in patience and character for your children, I'll presume you already knew all that since you started by admitting you were just venting and say yes, I agree with you and share your disdain for these eBay'ers who will hoard up and try to flip merchandise that becomes hot with the children without adding any value to the process themselves. I hope every one of them has a warehouse full of John Carter and Lone Ranger toys that they took a six figure bath on.

I'd go with getting something nice made by someone on Etsy.com before I'd pay these people for the flimsy princess wear that Disney puts out.

Good luck!

I get OP's displeasure. Mine was zhuzhu pets 2007.

 

[mefordis]

It's just the laws of supply and demand. It's a big deal because you make a big deal out of it. I have a feeling most of this frenzy is parent created, my kids NEED that princess dress, my kids NEED to meet The Frozen girls so I'm going to stand there for 4 hours.

I agree. My 5 year old loves Frozen and told me she wants the dress, too. However, the awesome thing about small kids is that it is easy to divert their attention away from things.

 

[kittyab]

With the Disney store having all their costumes on sale (25% off) I picked up a Merida dress for my DD.

I bought her a Anna dress when I took to BBB. I paid double what it would cost at the Disney store. Never again. I will wait, or she will not get it.

I can sew but not that good LOL!

 

[photo_chick]

Princess dresses . . . the whole reason I taught myself how to sew!

Yep. The Disney Store wants far too much for such cheaply made dresses as it is. They're not that difficult to make yourself.

 

[PatMcDuck]

I am a TDS CM.

In my opinion, reserve Ebay purchases for items no longer being made. For example, someone recently really wanted Si and Am plush from Lady and the Tramp. Yes, we had them in the stores a few years ago. Ebay is probably their only option. We will not get them again for years.

For items that are just out of stock, patience. We are trying to slow down the Ebayers, and there are limits to how many Frozen items each guest can buy. (1 or 2). Product is trickling in (but no dresses in quite awhile). All that we get sells out in hours or days.

It will get better soon. :roll eyes: Hopefully.

 

[hgeisler]

Disney couldn't have known what a colossal hit Frozen would be. I'm sure they expected it to be popular, but it is by far outperforming their recent animated features. You see it with a lot of movies, merchandise floods the stores, and then sits there, never selling. That's why they are conservative with initial orders. Believe me, they would much rather have enough stock to sell and make more money on.

Personally, while I liked Frozen, I don't quite get why it is so insanely popular, at least so much more so than Tangled was.

Agree!

 

[BlueGiraffe]

I bought Anna's dress in Smyths at the weekend for £14.99. It's nothing fancy (no hoops or anything), but she's happy with it.

 

[disneyfreak33]

OP,

While everyone is drilling you on the virtues of free markets and lessons in patience and character for your children, I'll presume you already knew all that since you started by admitting you were just venting and say yes, I agree with you and share your disdain for these eBay'ers who will hoard up and try to flip merchandise that becomes hot with the children without adding any value to the process themselves. I hope every one of them has a warehouse full of John Carter and Lone Ranger toys that they took a six figure bath on.

I'd go with getting something nice made by someone on Etsy.com before I'd pay these people for the flimsy princess wear that Disney puts out.

Good luck!

Thank you for getting it SurferDave!

 

[mcd2745]

Given the incredible margins on merchandise and how much they love to peddle their cheaply made goods...there's got to be some executives at Disney fuming over all the lost revenue by not having more Frozen merchandise available. They've easily lost out on millions of dollars in potential sales the last few months. I'm not in stores all the time, however, any time I've been in a Disney Store, Toys R Us, Target, etc. pretty much since Christmas, there has been basically no Frozen items left at all (and with a Frozen-obsessed 8yr old DD, we're always keeping an eye out for stuff).

 

[Eastern]

ebay resellers are the devil's spawn.

The only way to combat them is for people to refuse to buy the merchandise via ebay.

I feel bad for the parents who cannot find merchandise because someone wants to make even more money on ebay. The only thing you can do is to try to teach your kids that material things of any sort are not worth getting upset over.

It is hard to teach, but it is worthwhile in the long run, because they will never feel gypped when they cannot have a 'thing'.

Put your emphasis on experiences and not things. Things are not important.

 

[mcd2745]

What makes the eBay sellers hard to defend is the process by which they obtain the merchandise most of the time. They're not simply beating you to the store and purchasing them, then re-selling on eBay. Most often, the stuff they've gotten their hands on never made it to the shelves. They "fall off the truck" somewhere along the chain of distribution.

 

[SashaFarce]

I have no problem with people turning a profit, but I can't figure out why there are none in stock anywhere, apparently. At least the Disney store had the Anna dress for a while, but yesterday when I was doing my twice-weekly look-and-see, it's gone now as well. I understand the demand, but not the reason why production wasn't increased or shifted from less popular products once the demand became apparent.

 

[prudence64]

So glad I have the only daughter on the planet who saw the movie and didn't care for it.

 

[Pumpkin meme]

“shame on people for not selling me the things I want at the price I am willing to pay”

the joys of a free market.

 

[Texas Crude]

So of course my girls are into Frozen since we seen it on Thanksgiving day.

With that, I have been trying as well as other parents to get their little girls a dress. Either dress.

I should not have to wake up at the crack of dawn and stalk the Disney store for an awaiting arrival! I should not have to pay these OUTRAGEOUS prices these Ebay people are asking.

STOP buying these things and selling them at your disposal for INSANE amount of money, leave these things to our children who want nothing more then to be the princess in the movie they love!

All you re-sellers should be ashamed of yourselves for taking away from young little girls who want to dress up like Anna and Elsa. Shame on you I cannot stress it enough!

As for Disney, I am sure they knew they had a hit on their hands but maybe did not anticipate what a HUGE following this would be. So I ask on behalf of all the mothers out there looking for a Elsa dress for their little princesses PLEASE RESTOCK NOW! Thank you, that is all!

Sorry, had to laugh at that one. Is a little girl who's parents paid $250 for the dress on Ebay any less excited to dress up as Elsa than someone who's mom pays $50 at the Disney store?

In the end, isn't it one girl that didn't previously have an Elsa dress, but now does?

Seriously though, thanks for the idea... I hadn't even thought of the resale market on this!