I’ve seen people on the TVC Facebook group saying that Walmart banned them from placing online orders because they returned damaged figures. I don’t know how many returns they made, but it seems like a pretty vengeful thing for Walmart to do. Especially since those returns were prompted by Walmart’s shoddy handling of the products.
I have mixed feelings on this. WM does a really bad job on handling these figures. The latest TCV came all in separate envelopes for me and they were all pretty poorly damaged. I returned for a replacement and they shipped the replacements all in one box, slightly less damaged but still damaged on every card. That's frustrating.
On the flip side, I've read several FB Group posts about guys ordering 10 of the same figure, then shipping 9 of the 10 back because they weren't perfectly mint. There is a lot of gray space between a folded card and crushed bubble versus a slight ding on the bottom left corner. If the banned people are the ones consistently ordering way more than they ever intend to keep and leveraging free shipping back and forth, Walmart should 100% ban those guys as they are ruining inventory and costs for the rest of us.
As for this wave, I had the same struggles ordering as everyone else. Dedicated a solid hour to getting all 5 across three separate attempts through the morning, but I finally got to 2x of each and 4x stormies across just two orders. Royal pain in the ass to order, but I'm just happy to have them (hopefully) secured as WM exclusives are pretty hard to track down in store where I live.