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Almost nothing has hit more than 40% off in CA, so don't hold your breath much. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (26 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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(...) Wednesday. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (26 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Target clearances
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Now the dust is starting to settle, are there any lucky shoppers out there who might be willing to share their good fortune? I'm hoping specifically for the Podrace, Gungan Sub, RIS 1.0/1.5, & DDK that someone might have found extras of for 70% off? (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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jrosco wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) online (...) The clearance on 4561 does not seem to be a Target wide clearance. My local Target (Cary, NC) had one of these on the shelf yesterday. I got all excited - it scanned at $129.99, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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I was at a Target in NJ and picked up a RIS 1.5 for 119.99 and two addon set for 12.44 each. They were in the cleance section marked for 32.00 each. My jaw droped when the scaned for 12.44! Yahoo!!!! Anyone know where there are some railway express (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cool sets For Sale...
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(...) Just curious, why not just post the prices you want? ++Lar (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Cool sets For Sale...
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Hi everyone! I just want to see if anyone is interested in buying these sets...if you are please email me at dzz@mindspring.com or fusion@refraxion.com! Set 6195 Neptune Discovery Lab: (URL) 4565 Freight & Crane Railway: (URL) 5988 Pharaoh's (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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Anyone else finding any of the addon sets for 12.00??? the Targets close to me see to have sold out on them, still a couple of RIS systems, though I'm waiting to see if they go down anymore yet. I'd be interested in the one with the motor if anyone (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More: Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Shopko has been selling these for $25-28. Rose (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I found one for $18 about four months ago at a Wal-Mart here in Raleigh. Seemed to be a one of a kind deal as it was the only one the store had and none of the other Wal-Mart stores (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Southern California stores are pretty darn slow about putting out the sale prices (or not at all). It drives me nuts. I found one Wal-Mart out of four with the Sphinx Secret Surprise marked down (grabbed all four out of frustration!). The (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Internet Shopping
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(...) Root around on this site and you'll find links to most of the major e-tailers such as amazon, etoys, kbtoys, tru, etc. Peruse market.shopping to get some sense of who's good and who isn't... (...) Define good in this context. eBay is the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Droid Development Kit find at Target
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Oops! I have Destroyer droid on the brain. I picked up the Droid Developer Kits for $25. Rose R2 wrote in message ... (...) on (...) good (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Droid Development Kit find at Target
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I went back to Target today to pick up the destroyer droid for Eric. I looked at the Destroyer Droid kits, marked $59.90. I like the set, however I really only wanted to buy it if I could get it for a great price. I decided to plead a case to the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: What is clearance fodder and what isn't?
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(...) Look at the date on the shelf tag. If it has a 01/05, it's not clearance. I had an interesting experience today, at the picked-clean NJ Target stores: I found someone who actually knew how clearances worked, and could tell me how decisions (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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(...) In my experience in Northern California, WMs are extremely unpredictable when it comes to discounting. I have seen or heard of a number of cases where a store will have a huge number of one set, but instead of marking them down they'll keep (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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(...) They _can_ keep going down, and usually will. Not always in the organized, across-the-country fashion Target does, though. And no, the NFF will drop, I'd say, to $25 or less if given time. I got 6 or 8 6769's for $25 at WM. (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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My Wal-Mart (Katy, Texas) has them at 19.95 yet. They say they aren't marking them down because they will return them. George Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FnzEvp.GzG@lugnet.com... (...) but (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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Just out of experience ... Do Wal-Marts have a 2nd reduction phase, or will the prices tend to stay the same on all clearance items? Will the Ninja Flying Fortesses stay at $59.00 until all are sold? Also - the only SW sets at K-mart right now from (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: What is clearance fodder and what isn't?
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(...) In the case of Target, I believe that 'clearance' pricing is generated by three corp parts: national, regional, & store. Most of the prior Target clearances seem to have been 'regional' (possibly suggested by national), with certain regions (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | S@H Note
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I called Lego S@H on thurs (1-6-00) during normal business hours and the sales person told me that the specials were discontinued on the 31st of December. Needless to say i was kinda surprised. I waited about five minutes, called back, and this time (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: The Motherlode! (Was: Re: Target second round of reductions)
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(...) Too late, I did the first--consolidated at a 2 set : 1 box rate among like items. It all fit, and I could even see out my back window and into my blind-spots. The stores were 8 Mile and Van Dyke, Detroit (8500 8 Mile), and Northland Mall, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mi.det)
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| | Re: Shut out at Target!
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(...) That's the first level of discount. Tie/Ys and DDKs are at that level; wait a week. (...) Those Droid Fighters were not popular. When nothing else remained, the Droid Fighters were still there--darn brown wing POOPs (hmmm, that doesn't sound (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | What is clearance fodder and what isn't?
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This applies to Target only. Well maybe everyone else knew this... but at all the detroit area Targets, the shelf tags tell the tale. The "real" LEGO area has shelf tags. At this stage of the game, it seems that if a set had a shelf tag (either in (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO Outlet in Georgia
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Glad you scored! I too noticed the Pirates and Islanders stuff, but I'm not really in to those series, so I passed. My big score yesterday was mainly technic, plus I picked up the last 5561 they had for $60. I had been coveting this set for a while, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shut out at Target!
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Mike Walsh wrote in message ... (...) Target, (...) I just scored a 5600 RC car for 19.94, regular price is 79.99. Yipee!!! This is the only model team set I was missing, but I have been too cheap to pay full price for it. The box was not marked (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: More: Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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(...) I found the Sphynx sets today at Walmart and picked up 3. I couldn't believe the price compared to what else they had. Rob +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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Robin Werner wrote in message ... (...) (1298) (...) I (...) Wow - I was at two Wal-Mart stores today and saw exactly zero Advent Calendars. The last store I saw them in scanned at $16. Mike Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: Construction Site
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(...) That's not a regular feature- it was the fruit of their 1999 Builder's Exposition. As far as I know, they aren't currently displaying any models by their customers in the store. On the other hand, if there were any of the models you were (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Just got back from Wal-Mart, the same mother load of Advent calendars (1298) are now $3.00 each!!! WOW!!! I only got 20 I didn't want to make a seen but I am going back for more... See Ya... Robin GFLTC (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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The construction site is a great store. I visited it when I was in the Boston area in August. They are VERY knowledgeable about Lego. They also have a great Lego display of customer's custom models. They will email you a complete list of all Lego (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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They had those awful Cyber slammers or (...) If they were the spider slammers, we got them for $30 CDN each, and at that price, they were a good buy...a new motor, short power cord, and battery box in them... James P (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shut out at Target!
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Targets in the Fresno, CA area had some nice LEGO stuff. Had. I went on a feeding frenzy and saw met some interesting people on the way. I was talking to some older ladies who were looking at the train set. I told them it was a good deal. We talked (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | More: Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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Here's a few more Wal-Mart things I noticed on my recent trips. Beware that some of these items are not marked as clearance. Once you scan them, the low price is revealed. Town Minifigs are $2.50 Wind Runners are $1. Sphynx Secret Surprise $13. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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To All, I was running around last night with my fiancee, and we stopped by Walmart, where she wanted to get some stuff. Well, I ventured to the toy aisle with her, looking for the Slave 1, and found one! :) We were leaving, and I saw the clearance (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shut out at Target!
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(...) I've been looking for one of these. Only one I've found still scans at full price, which might be why it was still there for me to scan. The best Target I've found for clearance deals has an annoying habit of not discounting the biggest sets (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Shut out at Target!
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After seeing yesterday's posts about the great deals people found at Target, I headed out this morning to see if I could find any of these deals. I was hoping for a Mos Espa or Sith Infilitrator (or two or three) bu unfortunately I was shut out. In (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| | Lego box mixup
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While participating in 'the great Target Gold Rush of '00' today, I noticed something odd. I scanned a copy of Rig Racers and the scan machine spit out the price and told me it was a 'Blaze Responder'. On checking the box, I found the UPC bar-code (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO Outlet in Georgia
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G. Crisp wrote in message <38755C05.87E3AB9D@m...ng.com>... (...) (one (...) there (...) Well, I did indeed make it to the LEGO Outlet in Dawsonville today. Since I was in Duluth I asked one of my co-workers who lives in Atlanta to get me to Hwy. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO Outlet in Georgia
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You are in luck! I just happened to be there today! The address is: 800 HIGHWAY 400, Suite 1050 Dawsonville, GA 30534 Phone: (706) 216-2800 It's in the North Georgia Outlet Mall. Bad News: According to Yahoo Maps, it's going to take you about an (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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