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Hi All, Well I went to the local Ames in Wilkes-Barre and found a sign up stating that the Star Wars Lego products were not part of the sale. So I e-mailed Ames customer service with a disappointing comment about it. And I am shocked. A little over (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Greetings neigbor, I live a few hours north of you near Syracuse NY...No signs up here, but I think one Ames pulled alot of the Lego SW stock... So I e-mailed (...) Wow! I am amazed...I had a hard enough time with TRU and KB returning e-mail (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Wow...that is a terrible experience. I feel pretty lucky. I've visted 5 Ames stores so far with plans to visit another tomorrow. Two of the stores had almost nothing - mainly Flash Speeders and the $6 sets - so I didn't even ask (the Ames (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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I've had pretty good luck here in my area. I've pretty much cleaned out my local Ames with no trouble (except for Technic and a very few of the System sets); the first time I went in the cashier rang the stuff up and took the 75% off. Apparently (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) On balace, I guess I have done fairly well...I have visited 5 stores and purchased at 3 of them...I skipped 1 store because their stock was limited to droid fighters, skiffs, flash speeders and A-wings. I skipped the second one at the end of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(Continueing the story from my last post)... Well, my story is rather nice compared to some that I have read. After work I took a copy of the e-mail from the customer service rep to the Ames and asked for the person stated in the e-mail. A few (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I bet the margin, at least for power players like TRU and K-mart is a lot bigger than that. Otherwise, they'd take a bath each time they run a BOGO 50% off. Mom and Pop's may only get 20/25%, but big guys probably run close to 40/45%. (A local (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I'm beginning to believe that K-Mart rudeness and inept customer-service is universal; I've had bad experiences at 3 different K-Marts in my area - the managers treated me with contempt when I once tried to score a discount on opened (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I must say that I have only had one problem at a K-Mart, in this springs BOGO sale when I found an old set which didn't come up in their computer as LEGO, and had difficulty convincing the customer (un)service person that the set really was a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) waiting (...) worked (...) I have also had many problems at K Mart. The good thing about K Mart is that they have many discontinued sets at good prices. The problem is that almost all the sets that are older than 1998 come up not on file. So I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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I went to Ames in Concord, NH and Manchester, NH. At the first one, I picked up on of each SW set I didn't have (about $200.00 retail) and went to pay. When the first set rang up at full price, I pointed out to the clerk that these should be 75% (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Glad to hear you didn't have any problems. I went to one last Ames (7th one for me) today, and they refused to give me the discount. Since they had a lot of stuff, I did what I read a couple of other people here did and fired off an e-mail to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) if you flipped over that paper you would see the 20% Lego sale which starts Sunday...an Ames employee left a clip board on the shelf next to a bunch of Slave 1s I purchased; half a dozen of these slips were attached...one side said Lego toys (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I hit another Ames as a favor to a fellow AFOL...Due to long check out lines, numerous screaming babies and a couple Irate seniors at Customer Service, the manager waved to the Cashier in front of me to mark them down and get the ine (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Sigh...yes, that's an impressive stack. I hope you're planning to build, suh! ;) I've had to put most of my back sets in storage because of this haul. Methinks the fire sale will begin sooner than I'd planned... (...) Yep, they're always (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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