>>9041563In many cases it's NOT the companies. Nowadays the stores have gotten so fed up with the scalpers and the fights they just don't care. I worked at a Wal-Mart for 10+years and they have done this repeatedly with Hot Wheels, Sports cards, Action Figures, and Funko Pops. These scalpers wanting to be the first to sell on eBay race to these stores, run to the aisles and will cause a scene or a fight if the case "they were promised" is in another person's hands. I've watched 40 year old fat men cry, YES CRY, that their Hot Wheels case was given to another person. WTF?!?! Or they try and take it and a fight ensues. For a freaking TOY CAR!