LEGO 8803 Collectable Minifigures Series 3 Availability

[hardtravelinghero]

VERY interesting... I NEVER expected TRU to reduce their price... they must not be selling as well at $4! Voting with your wallet works!!!

lol... not really. tru always reduce price after christmas is over.

Either way, my mom had bought me two from TRU for X-Mas and I was going to return them, but read this and got a price adjustment instead. I'm wondering if I should return the TRU Semi-Truck if that goes down, even though I got the USB then.

[vynsane]

VERY interesting... I NEVER expected TRU to reduce their price... they must not be selling as well at $4! Voting with your wallet works!!!

lol... not really. tru always reduce price after christmas is over.

While it may be standard operating procedure for TRU to increase prices leading up to the holiday season, the increase from $2.99 to $3.99 for CMFs3 happened much earlier than any other increases on LEGO, giving me the feeling it wasn't a holiday increase, just a TRU 'opportunist' increase the same as the jump from $1.99 to $2.99 in the middle of this past year. Since this time around they're REALLY not the only game in town (with Walmart and Target as well as LEGO brand stores carrying them), I think they merely decided to get competitive. Seriously, I've seen boxes of them sitting around virtually untouched at TRU at the $3.99 price. I think it was too much for the market to bear.

[natelite]

While it may be standard operating procedure for TRU to increase prices leading up to the holiday season, the increase from $2.99 to $3.99 for CMFs3 happened much earlier than any other increases on LEGO, giving me the feeling it wasn't a holiday increase, just a TRU 'opportunist' increase the same as the jump from $1.99 to $2.99 in the middle of this past year. Since this time around they're REALLY not the only game in town (with Walmart and Target as well as LEGO brand stores carrying them), I think they merely decided to get competitive. Seriously, I've seen boxes of them sitting around virtually untouched at TRU at the $3.99 price. I think it was too much for the market to bear.

I doubt it. Cmf hasn't been around long enough. S3 was first retailed in dec.

[hardtravelinghero]

VERY interesting... I NEVER expected TRU to reduce their price... they must not be selling as well at $4! Voting with your wallet works!!!

lol... not really. tru always reduce price after christmas is over.

While it may be standard operating procedure for TRU to increase prices leading up to the holiday season, the increase from $2.99 to $3.99 for CMFs3 happened much earlier than any other increases on LEGO, giving me the feeling it wasn't a holiday increase, just a TRU 'opportunist' increase the same as the jump from $1.99 to $2.99 in the middle of this past year. Since this time around they're REALLY not the only game in town (with Walmart and Target as well as LEGO brand stores carrying them), I think they merely decided to get competitive. Seriously, I've seen boxes of them sitting around virtually untouched at TRU at the $3.99 price. I think it was too much for the market to bear.

Huntington Station, NY TRU is out of them when I got my price adjustment yesterday and since they price just dropped, as the manager said, they'd been sold out of them. Maybe it's NY and people expect to pay more...?

[vynsane]

I doubt it. Cmf hasn't been around long enough. S3 was first retailed in dec.

Searching back through Brickset's news, it seems the timeline for the release of CMFs3 is more compressed than I remembered, but only by a little. People were finding them in the US by Nov. 17th - hell, the bubble code was figured out by Nov. 19th. They were already $3.99 by the time they reached East Coast TRUs on December 1. I'm just saying, there's no reason to think this was "Christmas markup" as opposed to just the same markup above MSRP that TRU had on the other two CMF series to date.

Huntington Station, NY TRU is out of them when I got my price adjustment yesterday and since they price just dropped, as the manager said, they'd been sold out of them. Maybe it's NY and people expect to pay more...?

Well, while I'm not on LI, I am in NY, so maybe it's just people on LI. Either that, or someone went and cleaned them out immediately after the reduction, got there before you ;)

[natelite]

Searching back through Brickset's news, it seems the timeline for the release of CMFs3 is more compressed than I remembered, but only by a little. People were finding them in the US by Nov. 17th - hell, the bubble code was figured out by Nov. 19th. They were already $3.99 by the time they reached East Coast TRUs on December 1. I'm just saying, there's no reason to think this was "Christmas markup" as opposed to just the same markup above MSRP that TRU had on the other two CMF series to date.

clone troopers bp wasn't marked up to $16.99 until late nov. it's now back down to $14.99. christmas? definitedly.

[oocaleb101oo]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

[BobaFett2]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

Ouch. Double ouch.

[hardtravelinghero]

Searching back through Brickset's news, it seems the timeline for the release of CMFs3 is more compressed than I remembered, but only by a little. People were finding them in the US by Nov. 17th - hell, the bubble code was figured out by Nov. 19th. They were already $3.99 by the time they reached East Coast TRUs on December 1. I'm just saying, there's no reason to think this was "Christmas markup" as opposed to just the same markup above MSRP that TRU had on the other two CMF series to date.

clone troopers bp wasn't marked up to $16.99 until late nov. it's now back down to $14.99. christmas? definitedly.

And how much less at LegoShop.com? The Roosevelt Field Lego Store had the new troop builder packs for $11.99 as well as most of the new sets from all the themes that have been showing up at TRU and Wal-Marts.

[hardtravelinghero]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

This sounds like overly vigilant TRU employees who think we're trying to rip them off as if they'd make more money if ToysRus "lost" less to people with coupons.

I'd take them back if I were you and speak with a manager, politely, and only if that does not go well, maybe drop in a swear word or at least tell them you're going to write corporate and you're taking his or her name down too.

For a company that was closing stores left and right four years ago they should be kissing some butt. Anyone know their financial solvency at this point, now they've bought the remains of KB and FAO?

These things are not worth $3.99. (Unless you find S1, and only if it's good S1.)

[oocaleb101oo]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

This sounds like overly vigilant TRU employees who think we're trying to rip them off as if they'd make more money if ToysRus "lost" less to people with coupons.

I'd take them back if I were you and speak with a manager, politely, and only if that does not go well, maybe drop in a swear word or at least tell them you're going to write corporate and you're taking his or her name down too.

For a company that was closing stores left and right four years ago they should be kissing some butt. Anyone know their financial solvency at this point, now they've bought the remains of KB and FAO?

These things are not worth $3.99. (Unless you find S1, and only if it's good S1.)

On that day when they had the offer, I declined to purchase them for $3.99. Even though I had just spent 45 minutes sorting through 13 different ones. I did write TRU a very lengthy email with specifics and store locations and nothing came of it. I included phone number/address/email and it fell upon deaf ears.. or rather blind eyes since it was done via customer service form. I didn't expect them to actually reply though if that gives you any insight as to how much confidence I have in their complaint form process. In any case, they lost $50 bucks worth of sales on that day from me.

Hate to say it, but I wish they trusted the customers more than they do now. At least this particular store.

[BobaFett2]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

This sounds like overly vigilant TRU employees who think we're trying to rip them off as if they'd make more money if ToysRus "lost" less to people with coupons.

I'd take them back if I were you and speak with a manager, politely, and only if that does not go well, maybe drop in a swear word or at least tell them you're going to write corporate and you're taking his or her name down too.

For a company that was closing stores left and right four years ago they should be kissing some butt. Anyone know their financial solvency at this point, now they've bought the remains of KB and FAO?

These things are not worth $3.99. (Unless you find S1, and only if it's good S1.)

On that day when they had the offer, I declined to purchase them for $3.99. Even though I had just spent 45 minutes sorting through 13 different ones. I did write TRU a very lengthy email with specifics and store locations and nothing came of it. I included phone number/address/email and it fell upon deaf ears.. or rather blind eyes since it was done via customer service form. I didn't expect them to actually reply though if that gives you any insight as to how much confidence I have in their complaint form process. In any case, they lost $50 bucks worth of sales on that day from me.

Hate to say it, but I wish they trusted the customers more than they do now. At least this particular store.

Customer service at those stores is usually made up of non native speakers. It's more of a customer annoyance...some barely understand what you say, and many don't help.

[hardtravelinghero]

My local TRU sold out of all 3 boxes at $3.99 upcharge. Knowing my luck if they ever get another box in they would still want them at $3.99. They didn't even honor the $50 purchase of lego get 25% off the purchase when I tried to get my 13 minifigs and the green box.

This sounds like overly vigilant TRU employees who think we're trying to rip them off as if they'd make more money if ToysRus "lost" less to people with coupons.

I'd take them back if I were you and speak with a manager, politely, and only if that does not go well, maybe drop in a swear word or at least tell them you're going to write corporate and you're taking his or her name down too.

For a company that was closing stores left and right four years ago they should be kissing some butt. Anyone know their financial solvency at this point, now they've bought the remains of KB and FAO?

These things are not worth $3.99. (Unless you find S1, and only if it's good S1.)

On that day when they had the offer, I declined to purchase them for $3.99. Even though I had just spent 45 minutes sorting through 13 different ones. I did write TRU a very lengthy email with specifics and store locations and nothing came of it. I included phone number/address/email and it fell upon deaf ears.. or rather blind eyes since it was done via customer service form. I didn't expect them to actually reply though if that gives you any insight as to how much confidence I have in their complaint form process. In any case, they lost $50 bucks worth of sales on that day from me.

Hate to say it, but I wish they trusted the customers more than they do now. At least this particular store.

Glad you hear you said no and tried to open lines of communication.

The Lego Co on the other hand, I always receive most excellent customer service, except for the occasional phone wait time, though most of the time there's very little wait.

[slacker]

Lego in NJ Garden State mall has a huge bin full of them. must have 6 boxes in it.

[spock00]

Locally (Los Angeles) they have been scarce. Found 13 at TRU and bought them up. I had kids in the isles asking my kids for our box. LOL
I was amazed at how competitive an 8 year old could be for toys.
What annoys me is how TRU website says the local stores have them and when I check in person they are out of stock or hiding them behind the counter from thieves.

[BobaFett2]

Locally (Los Angeles) they have been scarce. Found 13 at TRU and bought them up. I had kids in the isles asking my kids for our box. LOL
I was amazed at how competitive an 8 year old could be for toys.
What annoys me is how TRU website says the local stores have them and when I check in person they are out of stock or hiding them behind the counter from thieves.

Well, considering how adults buy so many of them....

It makes a LOT of sense that kids would want to make use of their ONLY chance to actually get any and steal/take as many as possible.

[spock00]

Yep they must be bought up by the eBay resellers etc...
I was just trying to get something for my kids too.
We never got any series 1 or 2 so we're making up for lost time...

[oocaleb101oo]

Locally (Los Angeles) they have been scarce. Found 13 at TRU and bought them up. I had kids in the isles asking my kids for our box. LOL
I was amazed at how competitive an 8 year old could be for toys.
What annoys me is how TRU website says the local stores have them and when I check in person they are out of stock or hiding them behind the counter from thieves.

LOL, reminds me of when I was a kid collecting baseball cards. Gotta get all the holograms!

[spock00]

The funniest thing about when TRU employees said "they are hiding them behind the counter from thieves" they said the thieves are often employees... LOL I was kind of thrown off by that.

[oocaleb101oo]

The funniest thing about when TRU employees said "they are hiding them behind the counter from thieves" they said the thieves are often employees... LOL I was kind of thrown off by that.

Hate to say that when I was sifting through the ones I was going to buy at TRU I kept thinking how easy it would be to slip a fig in my jacket sleeve, but momma didn't raise a thief. LOL