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Walmart and Toys R Us paid cash on delivery for Razor scooters
“These Toys R Us and Walmart were paying COD for scooters to me.”
Larian mortgaged his home for Bratz ads after Toys R Us canceled
“Toys R Us cancels five and a half or six million dollars worth of Brad's orders. I thought, now for sure we're gonna go out of business, so I went without my wife's approval, got a second mortgage in our, on our house, and put another one and a half million do…”
Larian resold canceled Bratz inventory to Toys R Us at 25% markup
“And Toys R Us came back to us, I think two days before Thanksgiving, said we want to buy that order that we want to buy it back, that order that we canceled. And I said, those goods I don't have anymore, but I have goods in LA, and they cost 25% more, and they…”
Toys "R" Us was Razor's biggest customer for a long time
“I think for a long time they were my biggest customer, even for the Raid scooters and stuff like that.”
Toys "R" Us's bankruptcy caused significant, irreplaceable sales losses for Razor
“The most saddest dramatic shift for razor has been the loss of Toys R Us. You know, not only is it a loss from the kids perspective of a fantasy place to go, but they actually always carried our entire line. And when we came out with something innovative, they…”
Gymboree secured early product licensing deals with Random House and Connor Toys
“We had Random House doing our books, Health Text, which was kind of a cool brand for clothing. They ran, they did a clothing line for us. We also had Connor Toys did Some really like a big climbing gym that you'd put in your... And it was sold in Toys R Us.”