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My first FOTW...
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Sun, 2 Jul 2000 08:44:55 GMT
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O.K., I'm a piker by the standards of many of you here, but I just wanted to
share. Also, I learned an important lesson about buying opened boxes...
I found five 6599 sets at a San Jose, California K-Mart. The stickers showed
that they had been marked down to $2.00 on clearance (from an MSRP of $9.99). I
noticed that THREE of the five boxes had been opened. So I looked through them.
All of them were intact save one, which was missing the polybags but still had
one diver minifig and two fish.
When I got up to the reigster, I offered to take the opened box for $1.00. The
cashier said, "If it has missing parts, we can't sell it to you," and she
swiftly put the half-stolen box behind the register. Oops. What was more, it
appears that they were having an ADDITIONAL 20% off sale, as the remaining boxes
rang up at $1.60 apiece. In immediate hindsight, I realized that if I had taken
the counter-intuitive step of keeping quiet, I could have had the fifth box.
So, I would be paying $0.60 more for it, but I had just saved an extra $1.60 on
the other four...
All told, I spent $6.93, tax included, for 220 new parts. Even though some of
them aren't quite what I need (eight sharks and four swordfish? Feeding frenzy
on the reef, anyone?), some of the parts are pretty cool.
--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy <http://www.calfree.com>
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