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Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
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Wed, 31 May 2000 03:34:34 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes:
> > In lugnet.market.shopping, Ben Cox writes:
> > > Well, I tried, but didn't get the discount. The store manager kept telling • me
> > > that it was star wars brand only.
> >
> > What is Star Wars brand? Aren't all the SW toys made by various toy • companies
> > who have just paid for the license to make them? What makes action figures
> > any more a star wars "brand" than an X-wing Lego set? Hrmmm....
>
> That comment made me do the confused-doggie-head-tilt (rarf?) too. I simply
> pointed out the words "ENTIRE STOCK" and the Ames management acquiesced. I
> think it was intended to apply primarily to the designated "Star Wars area"
> items (figures, vehicles, baubles, and other detrius that is movie-related);
> however, they should have specified this rather than a blanket "ENTIRE STOCK • of
> Star Wars items" if that's what they meant. Fact of the matter is, the "Star
> Wars" logo on the box is as large as the LEGO SYSTEM logo, so you could argue
> that it is in fact a "Star Wars brand" just as much as if not more than
> anything else that bears that logo. After all, Kenner et al make other things
> besides Star Wars, so the two aren't coterminous.
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> If that argument doesn't produce results, don't be afraid to invoke the • spectre
> of the local BBB--after all, the advertisement doesn't make restrictions or
> exceptions, and if Ames tries to spring them on you after the fact it's
> deceptive advertising, which is something the BBB wants to know about. (Of
> course, Ames *does* reserve the right to limit quantities, so they could
> conceiveably limit you to one of each set if they wished, but not zero.) • After
> my negative experience yesterday I wrote Bradlees's online customer service
> address a letter (followed with a regular post letter) that merely mentioned
> the BBB and fair merchandise sales practices and this morning I found a very
> solicitous e-mail apology on behalf of the corporation, with promises of • action
> to be taken and that the local management would make suitable amends! It
> remains to be seen what form these amends take, but I find it interesting that
> my batting average in disputes where I mention the BBB is a heck of a lot
> higher than in those where I have relied simply upon my status as a customer.
> It may help, however, that I do not invoke them unless I am *very* clearly in
> the right and an impasse has been reached.
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> I wouldn't be surprised if by tomorrow Ames has a large sign up at its store
> entrances announcing an exception, or if they don't ask their staffers to pull
> SW LEGO items from the shelves until the end of the sale (I have seen the
> latter happen at a K-Mart before). I'm not sure how legal those actions are,
> though.
>
> Anyways, just two pennies from the local David Horowitz wannabe (not really,
> ack)...
(and now from Sydney, Australia...)
TARGET tried the same trick in April with their Star Wars stock, then a week
or so later included Lego.
TRU down here have had SW specials, sans-Lego as well.
Lindsay, with your Bradlees 'experience', I thought legally a store HAD to
sell you an item if it had a ticketed price, IANAL, but they are offering a
contract by having a price sticker and by grabbing it in your hands, you
then have a contract.
Who are the BBB (hopefully not related to the other triple-letter group)
pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>
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| (...) Usually it's stated in the ad when those exceptions are made--and the excuse "that was a misprint" is hardly going to fly in a situation where a company was clearly caught with its proverbial pants down. The honorable thing to do is take the (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) me (...) That comment made me do the confused-doggie-head-tilt (rarf?) too. I simply pointed out the words "ENTIRE STOCK" and the Ames management acquiesced. I think it was intended to apply primarily to the designated "Star Wars area" items (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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