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| (...) It doesn't amaze me. I would guess that many if not most employees are somewhat ambivalent about their employers goods. (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| With the exception of course of me, Brad, Tomas, and others, of course.... Jake (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) It's continually amazing to me that they hire people who care not one whit about the brick or what it means to people. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| "Jeff Johnston" <sakura@mediaone.net> wrote in message news:3A62FB37.367D18...one.net... (...) but (...) not (...) sale, (...) Locally (...) I'll shop (...) with the (...) for a (...) sale to (...) I also (...) Droid (...) parts (...) My shopping (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) I see that the 7171 Mos Espa Podrace no longer appears on eToys listings. AFOLs strike again ? Ray (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) I very rarely by Lego at retail, the Speeder Bikes was the last one I did, because I know that I can get at least %20-%25 percent off on almost a monthly basis. Target, Shopko, K-Mart, FredMeyer rountinely have such sales, but these may (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Gee... might that have anything to do with the fact that we are AFOLs 24/7, while many of the TLC people are 8-5 employees 5 days a week ? Ray (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Gosh that sounds familiar. :) Tricky to work on building or sorting when you've got a baby that needs to be walked around. ;) James (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) It also silences the "I told myself I wasn't going to buy any more LEGO until I sorted all the ones I have!" voice. eric (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Regular sets? Other than my first post-darkage sets XW and Snow Speeder, nothing. Rare, discontinued and promotional sets are different stories. (...) Well up here in Canada, Bay always has at least 10% off all toys every weekend, and Zellers (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) I hear you. I just usually don't buy like that. I'm not a SW fan at all, so while I can look at the SW sets (some of them) and recognize that they work better as models than a lot of other sets Lego releases, I still don't buy them thinking "I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| I was just over to my local K-mart and they had put out 5 or 6 each of the 10 small Throwbots, so I got one went to the checkout and instead of 6 dollars it scanned for 50 cents!!, yep that's $.50, HALF a buck!!. I told the cashier hold on. I went (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) This week via proxy, Shell set 1254 x 4. (...) Of course! I might be willing to buy some smaller or reasonably priced (a dime a brick or less) sets at full price, but if I want more than one of the set I will try to wait for at least a BOGO (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Yes... Yes you are... ;-). Just kidding of course although in the last year I have become extremely stingy. I think thats for a number of reasons. 1. Since the baby came I just don't shop very much any more. 2. Since the baby came my building (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Not at all. When the new sets for the year come out, I tend to buy them at full price. In recent memory, I have bought the following at full price: *All the Star Wars System sets to date *All the LoM sets (except the big base) *All the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Oh yeah. I forgot my original point, which was in reference to "should LEGO pay attention to us". The answer is: if we're only buying clearance sets, then no, because if that's the case, then we're obviously not the ones that LEGO is trying (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Right. But if they're not crap, I for example am not going to say, "Well, I'm not going to buy that just because it's not 50/75/whatever% off." If I like a set - or even the parts - enough, I feel no qualms about paying full (or nearly full) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) That about sums up my shopping strategy too. For example, I've wound up with the smaller Life on Mars alien stuff on more or less impulse, but I'm waiting for a sale before I go for the big tan four-legged one. I'm also waiting for a sale to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Nope. :) If I see something that I like, I'll typically buy one off the shelf, at whatever the price happens to be. About half the time that's 15% off, but that's because I do more shopping when Zeller's does their monthly sale, not because I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) OK Dave, you get a "Brave Shopper" card to carry now. You know, those were sets I bought at regular price too.. (maybe some new Treasury at a Kohl's 20% sale, which is really like 15% off MSRP.) Also Desert Skiff, Droid Fighter, Pontoon Plane, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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