So, I have been sucked into this ZHU ZHU pet craze! I am wandering if there are other parents out there like myself who have gotten sucked in?

I am the mom of a 5yr old and a 16month old. Our 5 yr old has like 6 things on his Christmas list and of course  one of the things that he really really wants is a ZHU ZHU pet and the garage. Of course I have stood in line, and have had no luck already. So i was on E-bay today, which I have now vowed that I will no longer look on ebay for one, as it is only making me get angry! There are so many on Ebay and Amazon that are selling for  upwards of almost $50, for a toy that cost $9.99! So when did taking a small childs Christmas wish become all about making money for people? If only these people would not be in line buying up all of the pets, parents like myself would be able to get one at a normal cost for their child! Am i totally wrong for feeling this way??

my friend found them at toysrus in monroeville last tuesday.  they keep them at the front desk, you can only buy two or three per visit.  the saleslady told her they get shipments on tuesdays and thursdays, so she went as soon as the store opened and got hers.

good luck!

Try my dilema...

2yrs ago a relative bought my then 2.5y/o son a piece to the Duplo Lego Thomas the Train set for christmas. He played with is EVERYDAY and despite my doubts is survived VERY rough play with no broken plastic tracks, for 6months.  It was Spencer, sold in EVERY store EVERYWHERE.  By that summer, I decided to start shopping for christmas and so glad I did.  I bought one of each thing available on the lego website (they only have about 2 sets available per year in addition to the starter set they always have).  So I got the starter set, which the inlaws wanted to buy from me to give to him--fine was happy to do it, the other 2 sets available at a normal cost my mother bought from me give to him (all at the prices and shipping I paid of course). There were a few on Amazon.com that were reasonably above the normal price (about a $10-30 markup.  Then there were those that are unavailable from lego now, so you can get from collectors and toy hoarders for upwards of $100-300.  needless to say I didn't buy any for that high a price. 

I called lego to ask if they'd ever be selling certain high demand characters again...the answer... sorry duplo is not our main marketing focus, as the kids that use them quickly outgrow them, so all that will be available is what we add to our site.  Um QUICKLY outgrow...these are for 1.5-5y/o's.  My 4.5y/o still loves all Duplo to this day and my 2y/o will plya with it for some time to come.  The products for ages 5-8 is also very limited.  So lego wants me to just sit around and not buy much from them until my child is 7 or 8?  hardly seems like good marketing to me.

Anyway...we also bought extra track sets (4- 2 straight and 2 curved).  The 2 straight sets I ordered them in July 2008 with a backorder date of Oct. 2008, then became backordered until after xmas (March).  I was fine with that b/c their bdays are in April..then they were backordered until July.  It took a full year to get those straight tracks.  Whew!

Happy Christmas shopping folks.  Doesn't matter what you want...or what your kid wants...guess we all can learn the lesson of not always getting what we want... and about the greed of others.

Sorry for your dilema.  My kid isn't into that "it" thing just yet...I'm sure by next year...there will be that thing he has to have. Thankfully with the train he only wanted more pieces...he didn't care what they were.  This year is the same so I ordered everything for the grandparents to give...and received them already.  I haven't bought must of anything for anyone yet....getting scared....ugggh!