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Re: Finally my Target hits 75% off
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Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:42:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, George Notel writes:
> It's meant an almost daily trip to Target, but my local on finally dropped
> to 75% off. I stopped at another one yesterday, just to see if they had hit
> the magic number, and managed to get an opened Lego Express and several
> Freight wagons for 75% off. I figured I'd check out my local one too, but
> the manager informed me it would probably occur this morning. Sure enough,
> and I got the last two Lego Express sets. I was first in the store, and as
> I was putting them in my cart, a woman looked at them and said she had come
> for them as well. Now it's on to a few more Targets to pick through other
> left overs! :-)
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> George
It's getting harder and harder to find sale stuff anymore. I guess the eBay
experience has turned a lot of people into sale buzzards. It may also be
that the uncertain economy had a few people trying to save some money off
the clearance sales this year. I'm not really sure why it's getting harder
other than that.
What I learned from last year is to remember what day your Target store does
their markdown. Based on that, you can get a fairly good prediction as to
when they will drop the price and be there before anyone else. Last year, I
followed that procedure but I got to the store shortly after lunch. Where
they originally had 10 railway express trains on the shelf the week before,
I ended up getting only 3. This year, I followed the same guidelines as
last year, only I got to the store when they opened Wednesday morning. I
managed to get 5 of the large train sets out of the 7 that were on the shelf
a week prior. It made a big difference and I can tell you that if I had
been there two hours later, I wouldn't have done nearly as well. The
shelves were being picked over as I made my exit. Planning is everything!
Also, it pays to find stores in communities where Lego is not such a hot
commodity. I usually have to drive a hundred miles and more to hit the
stores with nice payoffs. My local store never has much after the 50% markdown.
Tom
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