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In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> > Toys R Us is pretty much giving away the NBA 3 fig packs at $1.49 each.
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> I agree that 1.49 USD is "giving away" by TRU standards. However many many
> Dollar General stores in various places I have checked had scads of these 3 fig
> packs at 1.00 USD. Unfortunately it seemed like often any one store would have a
> lot of one pack and none of any of the others.
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> Even at 1.00 I have a hard time seeing a use for very many of these. In my view
> LEGO may possibly have overpaid for the license, this line hasn't seemed to move
> as well as they might have hoped at regular retail.
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> But then, I'm not much of a sports fan and the pieces in the NBA sets aren't as
> useful for other things as some of the other themes (unlike many of the soccer
> sets for example)
Fully agree with all these points. Most DG stores have 2 or 3 (out of 8 sets). I
know of one store which has 6 different ones. The fig packs are functionally
useless unless you are collecting the cards or you want plenty of 'extras' for
you LEGO dioramas. They might have sold slightly better if TLC has included a
basketball in each pack. Otherwise, they are merely show and tell.
Ray
P.S. I'm waiting for DG to dump them at 2/$1 or 3/$1. Might never happen, but
there are plenty out there that didn't sell during the last holiday season.
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| (...) TRU in USA is way behind the times on this clearance pricing; they stayed at $2.48 for far too long. As Lar and Ray pointed out, Dollar General in the USA (the store with the yellow signs) has been overstocked on NBA fig packs at $1.00 for (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)
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| (...) I agree that 1.49 USD is "giving away" by TRU standards. However many many Dollar General stores in various places I have checked had scads of these 3 fig packs at 1.00 USD. Unfortunately it seemed like often any one store would have a lot of (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)
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