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Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
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Fri, 2 Jun 2000 02:09:32 GMT
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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 somebody had bought some stuff the day before so he knew the
drill. The second time I had to point the ad out to the cashier. She called a
manager, and they said "Hmm, must've overlooked those SKU's...you'll have to
take the discount one by one." (I had 21 sets or something like that). I also
visited another AMes this evening, and what little Star Wars Lego they had left
was sitting right over the "Star Wars-75% off" sign. The clerk rather wearily
took the discount on the few smaller sets I picked up there--she knew the
drill, too! :)
> I can see how someone MIGHT get fired over something like this, but I don't
> imagine that a mistake like this would be very big in terms of actual $ lost.
> Every single one of the Ames stores I have visited has had a small Lego section
> anyhow. They probably will lost money on every SW Lego set, but they probably
> also are losing money on the other SW stuff and so the loss on the Lego would be
> small in comparison.
I don't know what kind of margins stores have on Lego, but I have a feeling
Ames lost a little bit of money on me this week. The Lego section in my local
Ames isn't large, but the sets add up (or at least they did before the discount
;)
> I'm curious to hear anyone else's experience - it appears that you need at least a
> little chutzpah to get the discount. Seems strange, because I would think stores
> would actually want your business (I don't think there are many people who went to
> Ames JUST for SW Lego, outside of Lugnet of course).
It took me surprisingly little chutzpah, actually. The second buy at my local
Ames was the only time I even had to point the ad out, and that time the
cashier immediately agreed with me, as did management when she called them.
Zero trouble--just a bit of a wait while she took the discount on the sets one-
by-one. I think they thought somebody forgot to enter the Lego into the
computer, and that was that. Certainly looked that way from the ad, too--it
quite clearly applies to SW Lego, so it was a reasonable response.
Alan
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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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| (...) 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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