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How big is your Target $4.99 exchange reserve?
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11-25-2008, 12:22 PM
gunslingercbr
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Well, in his defense and most of ours, they raised the price by nearly 60% in one year. I can't stress enough that if this doesn't chap your ass even a little that you are simply lying to yourself, and everyone else. I don't give a flying F,.k what or how any of you guys and Hasbro justify that hike, inflation, gas prices, because we're willing to pay it. 4.99 we got even great quality coupled with shitastic quality and 3.00 price increase later we still get good quality and shitastic quality. It's not ok the 3.00 increase in a years time. Each year yeah ok I'm comfortable a 1.00 a year. And I swear to God himself if someone replies "If you don't like the price hike, then don't buy it" I'm going to rip off one of my appendages and beat the crap out of my computer screen with it!!
no, they were only $4.99 at Wal Mart initially, and were $5.99 at Target and TRU -- that hardly equates to an absolute price for the figures that you and the OP want to claim as the strict value of the figures that you should only have to pay. on top of the fact that there could easily be an actual.....gasp....business method to the low pricing initially, eliminating your emotional argument, which is all your position is, a big, fat "it's not fair" cry. perhaps Hasbro and retailers kept a low price because they were not sure of the reception it would get, and used a lower price to entice customers. once the line proved it had a market, the price went up to the more standard price for action figures in the market. no, that couldn't be it, it would be too sensible and people wouldn't be able to whine about the price increase, as opposed to simply appreciate the lower price for however long it lasted. yes, you're such a victim of the company whose products you
choose
to buy. go ahead and rip off an appendage, because it is true.
buy and return all you want, that's not my issue. time is money, and I would lose money for every figure I returned at only a $2 savings. the issue is the adolescent mentality of somehow deserving Joes at one price simply because that is what they were at one time. why stop there? why not make the argument that G.I. Joes were only $1.99 25 years ago and that is all you should have to pay, since it is the same brand of figures. it is just as ridiculous a position.
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