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Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
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Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:56:27 GMT
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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% off, and produced the sales flyer. She looked at the flyer for all of ten
seconds and then proceeded to discount every set by 75%. No hassles.
In the second store I picked up all of their Destroyer Droids, another Battle
Droid and another Slave One (as well as a couple of small sets) When I went to
pay, the Lego rang up at full price. A cashier in the next aisle promptly informed
my cashier that the sets were on sale and to manually enter the discount. I didn't
even need to say anything. Nice service. I was never really impressed by Ames
before, but I guess I changed my mind.
Both Ames stores had a surprising amount of SW Legos considering today is the last
day of the sale. I kind of wondered about cleaning them out of sets (I only spent
about $100), but decided my Lego budget was already exceeded and I couldn't really
justify all of the extra sets unless I intended to flip them on e-bay. Somehow I
suspect that e-bay is about to be flooded with SW Legos.
Have fun,
Mark
John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
> <MAJOR SNIPAGE)
>
> I was made to feel like a criminal and given the Mother of all retail guilt
> trips by THE MANAGER..."do you think what you are doing is right?" and
> "someone will probably lose their job"...which is garbage...Hey I lost my
> job and no at Ames cared what happened to me.
>
> Bottom line I got my SW sets as 75% off, but it took over an hour and
> literally attracted the attenton of EVERYONE entering the store for 45
> minutes. This involved the time of 4+ employees for over an hour...given
> the energy expended, they waisted more $ in giving me a hard time than they
> would have made selling these sets at the sale price...
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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)
| | | Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
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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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| (...) 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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