Subject:
|
Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.market.theory
|
Date:
|
Sun, 4 Jun 2000 02:38:19 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
783 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.market.theory, Toki Barron writes:
> Mark Cornell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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 their web
> site. I didn't hear anything from them (it is Saturday), so I am not holding my
> breath, but I am hoping to get some concession from them or at least a tongue-lashing
> for the management of that particular Ames (they had a sign above the SW Lego saying
> simply "Lego toys" which had been made on Word or something and was just printed black
> on a 8.5x11 piece of paper).
>
> Toki
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 the back said 20% off...June 4-11, I believe...
John
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
|
| (...) 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)
|
39 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
