[quote name='Xiaan']Yes. I've managed to run into resellers once (it was early last year, in Target, in much the same way you described. They had several carts and a printout of clearanced sets). I've had cashiers mention them to me at checkout. I've even been asked if I knew the resellers (I'm not sure why, my purchases are usually small). I know there are a couple internet resellers who live in my area, and one major one (I'm in Idaho, btw). I've seen the result of their work at Target, Walmart, and Fred Meyer. Most recently someone hit the local Walmarts just after Christmas and bought everything marked 50%.
I was lucky, sort of, and managed to get their before them. The Walmart was fully stocked with everything from Slave 1s to Alien Conquest HQ trucks. I bought a Mace Windu Starfighter, but nothing else because I didn't have much cash on me at the time. I came back a few hours later and the aisle was bare.[/QUOTE]
If you're in Idaho, its probably the same reseller that's coming down into Utah too (their trailer truck had Idaho plates). Yeah, within a few days of the Wal-Mart clearance, massive amounts of sets mysteriously disappeared off the shelves, leaving them bare. When I first went to just one WM store, they had hundreds of clearance sets left, then absolutely none a few days after. They probably came down and hit all the WMs after X-mas, and at the same time scoped out the Target clearances and made their lists. They were so well-coordinated they knew exactly which stores they would hit first today (the stores that had the most leftover clearance items). And they weren't even really looking at the stuff - just scooping up an armful and dropping it in carts, starting at the left side of the clearance aisle and working towards the right, leaving nothing in their path just like a swarm of locusts. It was friggin' unbelievable. I suppose they put some back after checking with their outside contacts which items were worth re-selling, but I didn't hang around to wait.
I didn't mention it earlier, but despite these hoarding dealers, I was able to snatch a handful of clearance sets at Target today (they were all on endcaps and not in the main clearance aisle where the dealers were focusing):
4645 City Harbor 44.xx (mentioned previously)
3368 City Space Center 34.xx
3833 Krusty Krab 12.xx
3850 Meteor Strike game 5.xx
2520 Ninjago Battle Arena 24.xx
5764 Creator Rescue Robot (with light brick - nice!) 7.xx