favrefan#4
10-20-2007, 11:43 AM
I myself have never seen new stuff put out but have seen new series on the pegs lately but long after the series was released. So this morning I have been trying to get my son the Star wars Lego X-Wing Fighter to put away for Xmas and after trying all week long at opening of the days sale add and various other times we still have nothing but excuses.
I told the manager I think it is a ploy to advertise something you will either not have in stock or to only get 1 at a time in stock just to get people to come in to buy other items. I was told last night they had 4 on the truck to come back in the morning and I show up at 9(not knowing they dont open till 10). So we went to breakfast and got back to tru at 10:05 the lot had quite a few cars for an early morning(saturday especially), but I go inside no Lego. So we check the cars section no new cars, but I see some guys running around the corner with some new nba legends and I am like whoa new figures. I knew they were there and cleaned up already because they had an armload of chase:( .
So I look down at the end of the aisle and I see these people lined up at the stock room door an old lady(65-75 in age) was in there with a stocker cracking a case of cars and picking them I was like *** . These other stringy haired old gentlemen were waiting in the wings to swoop like vultures for anything left over so I just walked off. I go back to the legos and I see the stocker from the back room and ask for assistance. well he stopps and says that they may have been on the truck but no one has put them out yet so I asked him to see if it was in the back he says I can see if we have them in stock but will have to wait till they put them out to get them.
I said well thats not what I witnessed as protocol when those people were back there in the stockroom he said he was sorry that I seen that not all employees follow said protocol. I brushed it off and started to leave and he asked me about Sp's I said yeah I have quite a few. I told him they need to stick to a policy of if it is not on the floor it is not for sale(that means everybody!!!!) I was kinda disgusted by the scalping I had witnessed because I had never actually seen it with my own eyes. Only reason I knew it was scalping was the guy said he had 2 andrettis sold already for 22 bucks a piece. These are the people that make it hard on our collecting habits and hard for me to help my son get the toys that he would like to have to play with...........
SORRY ALL JUST HAD TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE!!!!!
And here is our haul (we drove 40 miles away to look at another tru for some stuff since we were free today)
My sons haul
A mario wall grafix
Lego X-wing fighter(GOT It!!!!! Yes!!!!!! Glad we drove the extra mileage)
Playmobil set (he is getting into them he loves the imagination he can use with them when playing)
Dinoco 400 set(if anyone needs any of the other 5 cars loose for their kids lmk)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/nelescab/100_1368.jpg
I told the manager I think it is a ploy to advertise something you will either not have in stock or to only get 1 at a time in stock just to get people to come in to buy other items. I was told last night they had 4 on the truck to come back in the morning and I show up at 9(not knowing they dont open till 10). So we went to breakfast and got back to tru at 10:05 the lot had quite a few cars for an early morning(saturday especially), but I go inside no Lego. So we check the cars section no new cars, but I see some guys running around the corner with some new nba legends and I am like whoa new figures. I knew they were there and cleaned up already because they had an armload of chase:( .
So I look down at the end of the aisle and I see these people lined up at the stock room door an old lady(65-75 in age) was in there with a stocker cracking a case of cars and picking them I was like *** . These other stringy haired old gentlemen were waiting in the wings to swoop like vultures for anything left over so I just walked off. I go back to the legos and I see the stocker from the back room and ask for assistance. well he stopps and says that they may have been on the truck but no one has put them out yet so I asked him to see if it was in the back he says I can see if we have them in stock but will have to wait till they put them out to get them.
I said well thats not what I witnessed as protocol when those people were back there in the stockroom he said he was sorry that I seen that not all employees follow said protocol. I brushed it off and started to leave and he asked me about Sp's I said yeah I have quite a few. I told him they need to stick to a policy of if it is not on the floor it is not for sale(that means everybody!!!!) I was kinda disgusted by the scalping I had witnessed because I had never actually seen it with my own eyes. Only reason I knew it was scalping was the guy said he had 2 andrettis sold already for 22 bucks a piece. These are the people that make it hard on our collecting habits and hard for me to help my son get the toys that he would like to have to play with...........
SORRY ALL JUST HAD TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE!!!!!
And here is our haul (we drove 40 miles away to look at another tru for some stuff since we were free today)
My sons haul
A mario wall grafix
Lego X-wing fighter(GOT It!!!!! Yes!!!!!! Glad we drove the extra mileage)
Playmobil set (he is getting into them he loves the imagination he can use with them when playing)
Dinoco 400 set(if anyone needs any of the other 5 cars loose for their kids lmk)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/nelescab/100_1368.jpg