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Re: HOTW! (Yeah, that's an H.)
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Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:28:35 GMT
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Richard Marchetti wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Shiri Dori writes:
> > Well, sounds like you were lucky. I tried that with FAO Schwartz and their
> > torn box of the royal knight's carraige (too lazy to find number now) but the
> > salesperson just said that the bags were still complete and that she'll take
> > off ten percent off the $22 set.
> > Wow, a $2 discount... That'll make me day.
FAO is very unbudgeable on price. They offered me the same on a Paradisa set--a
Paradisa set that was already priced 40% above MSRP. I'll go into FAO to shop, but
never, ever, *ever* to buy. When it was just jacked up 10%, many years ago, I
could justify it--but not paying a 40% entertainment "fee."
> This always happens to me. No one ever gives me a deal on anything, EVER! The
> discounts I am usually offered are not worth the hassle of pursuing the
> missing parts. And this presumes I know precisely which parts have gone
> astray while I am trying to make a decision about it. Uh, thanks but no
> thanks!
How old are you two? Just curious--I've noticed that since I became all edumacated
and toss around $1.50 words and look all haggard and 30, adults take me more
seriously. Almost like I'm one of them! (Ha. Hardly.)
> And just because the bags that remain are sealed is no guarantee of ALL of the
> bags being there. What are people thinking?
They're thinking the same thing that the Service Merchandise people were thinking
on a Skull Island set a couple of years ago: 10% off, when I knew that at least
half the polybags and the baseplate were missing, and could point to this.
> It hurts a brick lover like myself see so many elements end up on the Island
> of Lost Toys...
Sorry, I've just got to say it:
"Nobody wants a Timmy in the box!"
> I can only hope the stores don't literally throw such things
> away. I could see them taping the box and putting it on liquidation for 25% of
> the full retail price with a warning that parts are missing -- but a $2
> discount they can stuff.
That's not liquidation. That's still profitable--they should send it back to TLG,
or blow it out as a loss on their P&Ls, IMHO. Then again, it's not my business--if
they want an upset customer down the line who doesn't know better and costs them
money and time rather than a happy customer now that just costs them a few bucks
but who will certainly come back, that's their business--and their Chapter 11.
best,
Lindsay
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