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I've called all of the Best Buy stores in the Bay Area, and a couple in Pennsylvania in the hopes that my brother-in-law could pick it up for me. But all of them are all sold out of Lego Mindstorms. If you have a Best Buy in your area that still (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Target update
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My local Target (Mountain View) still has many Lego sets on 30%-off clearance. But be careful - many sets are still full price. Someone posted recently that Target tends to progressively slash their clearance discounts as time passes, all the way (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) Both the East Palo Alto and San Carlos stores are sold out. I checked as soon as I heard about this. I had to talk to several clueless people before getting the answer: they decided a while ago to discontinue their Lego inventory (which I (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0
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I'm crossposting as a courtesy to readers of lugnet.market.shopping and lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf who might have missed this in lugnet.announce: --Bill. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) Anyone knows which Bay Area stores may still have them in stock? Where in the store are they shelved? I went to two stores and asked the sales people there, they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. "I don't think we carry this (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) Woo Hoo...after missing the clearance of RIS sets from Target last Christmas, I managed to pick up the 2.0 at Best Buy today...had a $50 gift card for BB as well....sooo.....actual cost to me was a whole $18 and change after tax =) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) Thanks a bunch for this post. I had purchased 2 RIS 2.0 sets at one of the Best Buy stores in Nashville a week or two before Christmas for $130 each. One of them I returned and repurchased using the $15 manufacturers coupon I had forgotten (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Sale @ Amazon
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The Amazon "outlet" has a number of Lego sets on sale. Here's a link that gets you a list of all the Lego stuff for sale: (URL) you can't click on that, just look for the "Outlet" as one of the new stores in the toolbar. (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) I thought there were some firmware differences, a few different parts included, and some changes in the software sent. The parts are not critical, I think the firmware can be downloaded from LEGO (but am not sure about that part) and the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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(...) LOL, it practically sounds as though I quoted it! Actually I hadn't seen it-- trivial info (especially for things I enjoy like shopping) seems to stick in my head. BTW glad you're posting again, things were pretty dead around here without you! (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Other than Target, what are the Lego bargains to be had?
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(...) This is coming up as $19.99 when I check. And the bucket is $12.99. I must have missed them. (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) Actually, you got a better deal. My understanding is that the 2.0 brick is identical except for being "upgraded" in the *removal* of the AC power input (it uses batteries only). You can save a lot of cash using electricity to power the RCX for (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 on clearance at Best Buy
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(...) To my delight I was able to get a RCX kit at Best Buy. Now I am just noticing that the RCX brick is labelled 1.0 :( Did I still get a good deal? and is there a huge difference between the two sets? (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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Well I will let you know tomorrow. I just got the gift receipt for a Target brand item (toy) that I know is now on clearance. I know it was bought at full price. Rose "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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(...) Washpost has some verbage on this... (URL) you read that story too, MC? (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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(...) BTW as of November 1st Target will not accept returns at all without a receipt or a gift receipt. Maybe this clearance policy is also something new. But I agree with Larry, I don't see how they can do that, especially when it says on the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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"r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:Gp14xA.FAD@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Even if you have the receipt? That doesn't make any sense. I know they do that if you return something without the receipt but if you have it, they (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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(...) That has been their (and other stores) policy for items that don't have receipts for an awfully long time. But I suspect they would have a hard time getting that policy to stick if you have the receipt for your purchase. My experience in the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Other than Target, what are the Lego bargains to be had?
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Mobile Outpost $15 at kbkids.com Mickey's Fishing Adventure Bucket $10 at kbkids.com Troy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Morton" <richard.morton@idyn...csinc.com> Newsgroups: lugnet.market.shopping Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:28 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is 4561 a bargain for $90? Was Re: Let the Target-hunting begin.
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Target's new policy is that if an item is on clearance when you return it, you only get the clearance price value. Rose "Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:Gp0zK4.3Bv@lugnet.com... (...) any (...) price (...) keep (...) for (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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