 | | US S@H Specials, Dec 15 - 21, 2004
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) 4Juniors/Jack Stone/Max Creator 4668 Outrigger Construction Crane $14.99 $ 7.50 (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | A couple of older sets found in Roses
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I went into a Roses store (NC, US) yesterday and saw that they had a few older Lego sets available. Nothing interested me, but I thought it was neat to still see some of these things for sale at retail: 8002 Destroyer Droid - $30 6713 Grip-n-Go (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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S@H is to expensive in Australia. I prefer to buy from EBAY in the US and pay the additional $30USD shipping. When you add $40 AUD to the price of a purchase and it's still cheaper than S@H, you soon learn not to bother. (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: "> (...) This is normal for paypal. If I use my paypal card at a gas pump it will show up with two charges on my account. The first charge is the authorization the gas company does. The second is the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: SW Mini at Food4Less
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(...) They have other LEGO too, just thought the SW mini would be of more interest to AFOL. I think they had those little 100 part creator "canisters" (4026/4027) for something like $1.29 (not sure, but definitely under 2 bucks). Those would make (...) (20 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: SW Mini at Food4Less
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Darrell Urbien wrote: I thought that name sounded familiar. Food4Less is one of the Kroger brands (where the 4400 tubs were spotted recently). A list of Kroger store names can be seen (URL) here>. I wonder if any of the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: SW Mini at Food4Less
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(...) And if you look at my question I just posted about the general availablity of these sets, clearly I walked into a Food4Less and was surprised to see these there. I bought most of the x-wing/ties on general impulse, but was thinking maybe I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Wow! Working 60 & 70 hours a week will take it's toll on anybody. That and these short winter days and the holiday rush only add fuel to the fire. You mention that you have a family so there's more or your time divied up. Granted you have (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: (snip) I've ordered from S@H dozens of times, possibly over a hundred different times by now, and never ever had a single problem with either phone order (in the pre-website days) or the web service. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: snip (...) What does the above passage refer to? What kind of special treatment do train clubs and "elite AFOLs" get? Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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I ordered $366 worth through the web site on Sunday afternoon. With 2nd (...) I have gone through almost the exact experience, I purchased a large S@H order, TLC charged my card, then sent an email saying the order was canceled. as Daniel said, I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) See, much nicer with the wording. Maybe it is me, but I liked how you presented yourself in this posting much more than the other one. Dave K -can't we all just... get along... ;) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) Eh, I've been off-base before, but that's the way the message presented itself to me. You've stated that you've had various negative dealings with TLC--my dealings with them have been (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I guess thanks are in order to you Jake for looking in on this for me. I was not looking for any kind of special intervention to resolve this issue, which is why I didn't use any of my "pull" with employees I know in the first place. My point (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Not to add fuel to the fire, but coming from a person who has actually benefitted financially from TLG, this has got to be pretty serious... -Bryan (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) You are way off the mark here. I love the building system, have been playing with it for over 20 years. Yet I find it impossible to give any more money to a company has little regard for its cutomers other than making a profit from them and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I seriously doubt that you'd get a "Jake who?" from anyone but the rollover call center. I worked and lived in Enfield for two years and have traveled back and forth there regularly for a year before and a year after. I've worked with and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | New Designer sets & RC parts appearing on S@H
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I noticed these new items have appeard on Lego™ S@H. Some of them do not have pictures yet. 7244 Speedboat (no pictures, except for the "zoom" feature works). 4881 Robo Platoon (no pics) 4882 Speed Wings (no pics) The following items appear to be (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Indeed... and whos to say that the same thing isn't happening to non-AFOLs using the same type of card (PayPal or otherwise) ? TLC should be big enough (and have have a loud enough voice) to talk to PayPal and get something resolved about the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In addition to other people's posts, I think it's also good to remember that in the month before Christmas, a toy company probably hires a ton of temp workers to man their phones. I'd be totally surprised if there weren't any screwups. (...) Not (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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