>>6843155I've only been asked something similar once. I was at a Zellers during the RoML era of Marvel Legends, and couldn't find them anywhere. I lucked upon the entire wave and also saw that they were 25% off. I happily brought them to the cashier who was an older immigrant lady. I guess it helped that it wasn't a very busy day and maybe she was just trying to make conversation, but as she scans them she asks are you buying these for yourself? I tell her yes, that I'm a collector. She then asks "oh, so do you play with them? Just put them somewhere?" As well as something along the lines of wasting money. To keep things simple I just said I like to display them then went on my way. I don't think she meant any harm, just that the words may have come out a bit crude, but that's fine.
Oh and there was also a lady manager I knew, and she liked to tease me whenever I'd buy anything. She'd scoff, "psh, collectors" Though to be fair the TRU this was at is plagued by some really annoying collector types, including a few that return different items.
Ok I'm going too long but just for fun when this one fellow, big long hair fellow, was trying to return a dc multiverse figure with the absolute wrong items (different figure, different baf piece) inside I signaled the cashier. The cashier had no idea what was going on, but eventually an image of the actual item was pulled up and the guy was found out. He then went on about how his mom bought the item for her nephew and just excuse after excuse. He left soon after, surely to do his return at some other location. It's too bad the cashiers can't tell that the items aren't as they should be, or maybe management doesn't care enough to make sure they look.
