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How big is your Target $4.99 exchange reserve?
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11-23-2008, 07:27 PM
spacemonkeymafia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
vwong19
Now that the $4.99 sale at Target is about to end? Has anyone bought up a reserve of extra Joes in anticipation of the price hike back to $6.89 or even worse to $9.99.
NOTE: If you don't know by now, Target's inventory considers all Joes the same so they do not differentiate whether you originally bought a BAT and then return a Wild Bill.
I plan to buy 6+ extra Joes to return in the future in the event they increase prices. Worse case scenario is that I just get my money back a few months later.
So you can just have more peg warmers on the shelf?
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Originally Posted by
Evil Porkchop
Gee that will make them get more stock in. Let's see... return peg warmers when the price goes back up to $6.99 or whatever and let them set there for another 4-5 months. Then Target will think that the new waves won't/don't sell (since you said they don't differentiate) and order even less and less of the new cases.
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Originally Posted by
TheRealDubya
The real question is a how big a douche are you? This is lame, lame, lame.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
vwong19
Let me pose this scenario....
- I go to Target today and see pegwarmers at $4.99.
- 2 days later Target jacks up the prices to $9.99 and decide to release wave 10/11/12.
What should I have done to get around their "plan" to clean out their inventory?
Is it my fault that Target decides to scan all their Joes as one item?
Then sounds like you need a new Job if you cant afford them then leave them on the shelf before you do your scam.
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Originally Posted by
RuckusJr
He's not trying to return them for more money, he's trying to buy them at $4.99, then when wave 11, 12, and 13 come out, he'll exchange them for those, because those won't likely be in stores until prices go back up. So essentially he's purchasing waves 11-13 at 4.99. What he's counting on it that the POS will show it as an even exchange since it's item for item regardless of price at the time of purchase.
If he wasn't buying these peg warmers now in order to exchange them later, it wouldn't be hosing anyone. He's still purchasing the figures he wants, and if those other figures weren't moving off the pegs, he wouldn't be contributing to the Joes in the stock-room, because there wouldn't be room on the pegs anyways.
I think it's kinda shady myself, but I understand and it's not affecting any of us in the long run.
If he cant afford them when they do go back up then he needs to get out of the Hobby...
Quote:
Originally Posted by
RuckusJr
I think you're being kinda harsh on the guy for calling him scum, what he's doing is perfectly legal and can't be misconstrued as theft or fraud. He's talking about performing an exchange. He's doing something that's perfectly within the lines. I think it's questionable and I would never do it, but if he wants to do it he's perfectly fine in doing so in my mind. So would he be scum if he bought a bunch at retail and a sale started a week later and he wanted a price match? No, it's perfectly within what the company allows. In fact, that's smart and tankers would be PISSED if that wasn't allowed. He's doing the same thing, only in reverse.
I know what hes talking about doing and its still crap......he wants to get wave 11 and 12 for $5....so he buys all the Joes to only return them when new waves get in.......so in turn he bring the Joes that werent selling back so they can still sit there and cause them not to put other waves out....yeah sounds like a solid plan.....
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Originally Posted by
gunslingercbr
using the OP's figure amount, considering the time it would take to go to the store and return the 6 Joes would only net me only $12 in the difference of the price ($4.99 to $6.99), $12 is hardly worth my time to execute such a plan. I think $50 would be the beginning point for me to consider that, which would mean I would have to buy and return 25 figures. but dropping $125 to buy those figures in case I may want to return them isn't worth not having $125 on hand until I return them.
the entire concept is simply not worth the time or expense unless you are pinching pennies. fortunately, I am not, and my time has a value to it greater than $2 per figure.
fearing a price hike to $9.99 is simply silly. I deal with what is, not what if.
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