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Re: AFOLs as cheapskates
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:57:21 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Frank Filz writes:
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> It must be nice to live in an area which gets much clearance at all. If
> I waited for 50% off sales or better, my collection would be pretty
> small, and would have very weird gaps. I buy most of my sets at 25% off
> (K-Mart BOG 50% sales - which are the only real reliable source of
> discount LEGO here). This year I did to better at Target. Last year I
> got almost nothing after Christmas, though in the past two years I have
> scored sets here and there (and then there was the 5978 which I saw a
> clearance sticker during a summer clearance, but no sets. Then, in the
> fall, it re-appeared on the shelf, with a regular price of the last step
> clearance of $15.74, I bought 10 or 12 at that price, and Mike Walsh
> also bought a bunch at that price - they kept re-filling the shelves!).
> This year I managed to get a stack of stuff at 50% from Target. The bulk
> of my clearance stuff though comes from the web deals.
It's funny, one local Target (Fairfield, California) had the 5978's at $15.74
also. Yours was the only other one I heard of that did that (I remember when
you posted about it). I also bought several. I have found some real finds
(e.g., Interstellar Starfighter for $10.90 at a TRU in Sacramento), but they
are not sets that appeal to me at all so I have either had to give them to my
kids or pass them along to a fellow AFOL who would get better use out of the
parts. And I do have weird gaps in my collection!
Maggie C.
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> It would be interesting to see the average markdown of all AFOLs (take
> what we all spend per year on LEGO and divide by the sum of all the list
> prices). I bet it's no more than 20-30% off, if even that much.
>
> Frank
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| (...) It must be nice to live in an area which gets much clearance at all. If I waited for 50% off sales or better, my collection would be pretty small, and would have very weird gaps. I buy most of my sets at 25% off (K-Mart BOG 50% sales - which (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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