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07-08-2017, 02:56 PM | #7181 |
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I cannot tell you how bad this pisses me off. Someone didn't do their fu%$#ng job.
These were stocked ONE TIME @ all of my area TRU's, and sold out within a week. They were discontinued in early November. Online, they were up for less then 14 days (total between a few restocks) and gone..... These easily would have sold at full retail given a half assed effort to actually get them out. I am so tired of us being blamed for not buying this stuff and not supporting the line. This is not on us. Either the "GI Joe team" or Toys R Us screwed this up, and they screwed all of us in the process. It's too bad we don't have an ex brand manager around to explain how this happens....
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07-08-2017, 03:51 PM | #7182 |
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I went to so many different TRUs - in different parts of the country, even - and I never found one. I walk in with cash in hand, and they have none to sell me. And yet someone at TRU is looking at this and saying, "I guess nobody wants to buy these toys." It's infuriating.
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07-08-2017, 04:02 PM | #7183 |
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Maybe bigbadtoystore dumped a load on Ross. They seem to have a bunch that they cant get rid of.
Toys r us sold everything in under 1 month here and never re stocked again.
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07-08-2017, 04:15 PM | #7184 |
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I messed up big time. Saw tbem at toys r us when they first came out and left them. Came back a.couple of weeks later and they jacked the price. I was like "I'll wait till they hit clearance". Then supposedly I missed them on clearance! Now we don't have ant ross's on Long island!
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07-08-2017, 05:24 PM | #7185 |
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I was more fortunate when they showed up. I immediately brought one GI Joe 3-pack and 2 of the COBRA 3-packs, in hopes that there would be more COBRA 3-packs later. I came back about a few weeks later, only saw 2-packs, which were around for about a month or two before they were gone. I brought at least one of every 2-pack except for the Zombie Vipers and Viper/IG, which I left on the shelves. Thanks to accumulating many points through a free phone app called Luckstastic, I was able to use a free TRU $25 gift card on one of the 3-packs. Since TRU no longer carries GI Joe stuff, the next time I accumulate points, I won't be using them to get another gift card.
If Hasbro ever, and I mean ever decides to sell at retail again and they end up as TRU Exclusives, I would highly recommend trying to get enough points on the app to get your free gift card. Only catch is that you would have to log in at least once a day, and you will end up watching a lot of ads. It took me only about three months because I had logged in once a day, and had downloaded some free apps in the process(games where you have to do certain tasks to earn the points). Without getting the free apps, I would say it would take like six months. I know it's a lot of work but it could pay off, who knows? Ah, but the bottom line is, Hasbro should be sending the figures to places like Walgreens/CVS, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, and Target, instead of TRU.
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07-08-2017, 05:44 PM | #7186 |
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Of all the places, I just found one Cobra Legion at the Ross in Osage Beach MO. Really blows my mind because I never even saw these or heard of anyone finding them at the two TRUs in the area when they were supposed to have been released.
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07-08-2017, 06:06 PM | #7187 |
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I think it was just a cluster fuck of things that went wrong this time around. Some was because of very poor distribution on the TRU end while some was definitely the "Ill wait until they hit Clearance or Ross" attitude from the prior years. I have 4 TRU in my immediate area and they were all well stocked and sold out long before they got clearanced. When I asked the manager at the largest store if they were in the system for restocks I was told no that were a one shot deal. So I bought all of them. Not even exaggerating!lol They did end up getting one full restock at 3 of the stores and I bought most of those as well. The last store ended up getting just a second shipment of the two packs and the Tombstone/Duke set was the only one that Sat on the shelf longer than a couple of weeks but did sell out before they got clearanced. However a few weeks back I found a single 3pack it was still ringing up as 22.99 so I cheaped out and I left it. When I changed my mind the next day it was gone. I do think It sucks for the stores that didn't receive any but that might have been beacuse of the market in that particular area just wasn't enough to warrant them taking up shelf space, as they had to be Clearanced in years prior. Only 2 of the 4 stores carried vehicles in 2016 because of TRU sitting on them the year before.
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07-08-2017, 06:33 PM | #7188 |
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I passed on a Joe pack at one store and scored the Cobra set at another. Looks like each store only got 1 set each.
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07-08-2017, 06:50 PM | #7189 |
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I imagine they'll be gone by the time i get after it. Hopefully the two packs start popping. Anyone been to 5 below lately?
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07-08-2017, 07:40 PM | #7190 |
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I think it was just a cluster fuck of things that went wrong this time around. Some was because of very poor distribution on the TRU end while some was definitely the "Ill wait until they hit Clearance or Ross" attitude from the prior years. I have 4 TRU in my immediate area and they were all well stocked and sold out long before they got clearanced. When I asked the manager at the largest store if they were in the system for restocks I was told no that were a one shot deal. So I bought all of them. Not even exaggerating!lol They did end up getting one full restock at 3 of the stores and I bought most of those as well. The last store ended up getting just a second shipment of the two packs and the Tombstone/Duke set was the only one that Sat on the shelf longer than a couple of weeks but did sell out before they got clearanced. However a few weeks back I found a single 3pack it was still ringing up as 22.99 so I cheaped out and I left it. When I changed my mind the next day it was gone. I do think It sucks for the stores that didn't receive any but that might have been beacuse of the market in that particular area just wasn't enough to warrant them taking up shelf space, as they had to be Clearanced in years prior. Only 2 of the 4 stores carried vehicles in 2016 because of TRU sitting on them the year before.
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