The Big Millennium Falcon for Thirty-Two Fiddy
A recent forum posting has created a bit of a stir lately that I thought I’d share. On Hisstank.com, a prominent G.I. Joe toy message board, someone posted strong evidence that they bought three of the new big Hasbro Millennium Falcons on clearance for 32 dollars a piece.
Before you go rushing to your nearest Wal-Mart to take advantage of such a fabulous deal, keep in mind that this was one insane fluke. I’ll let the poster tell it in his own words:
They are in the middle of a re-model and were in the process of moving the Toy section. As such, they had a section of clearance stuff and were in the middle of weeding out the markdowns from the not-markdowns. The three BMFs were sitting there and she had not got to them yet, so I asked. I figured they would be $100 or maybe $75.
She scanned it and confirmed that they were $150 and said something about $75. Then she asked me what was half of $75. I nearly gagged. She then said - “oh yeah… $32.50″ and priced them up. She even said “they are gonna hate me when I do this, but they did say 75% off…”.
According to her scan gun, the Falcons were “non-replenishable” and thus able to be on clearance. The AT-TE’s also in the store were “replenishable” and were NOT a part of the clearance. The pricing sticker was done by the lady manually right as we were speaking. I have no idea if it was 149.76 or not - that’s what she put on them when I was sitting there.
He goes on to talk a little bit more about how stuff was getting clearanced like mad to make room. My guess is that someone didn’t bother moving the Falcons so they got dangerously close to the clearance aisle. What we have here is a case of a total idiot not thinking clearly and assuming “non-replenishable” equaled, “it’s okay to go on clearance.” In fact, it does not mean that at all. It only means that an employee of the store can’t order more, but the store can certainly receive more of the item if it is shipped to them. Furthermore, the employee that marked it down really needs to get fired. You can’t be that dumb and be able to have the mark down things at will. Hell, I got into trouble when I worked at Wal-Mart and I ordered a couple of cases of Star Wars figures when the pegs had been empty for over a month. If you can get in trouble for using your brain, I bet you can get into trouble just as easily.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Whoa, now that would be an awesome purchase!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
That is a pretty awesome find. 3 BMF’s for less than the price of 1.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
lucky bugger.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:04 am
That employee needs to be fired?
Or maybe given a handjob by a grateful collector in the Wal-Mart loading dock.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:19 am
WTF??? I only want 1 MF pls!
Here’s hoping more of these mistakes happening in my local stores, esp for huge items like this! hee.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Funny, ever since I read this post, I can’t find a Wal-Mart that even has a Falcon.
Sam
September 16th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Heh…this sounds way too familiar. Last weekend in Ohio my gfriend notices (like the toy price hawk that she is…man I love her) that the falcons in the walmart centre aisle are marked at $49.76….apparently someone forgot to put the “1″ up in the price sign!
So we pull an associate over and ask for a price gun check which yielded the normal $150 price. We refer to the price sign, which she promptly rips down and escorts us to the front of the store to purchase our Falcons…one each since we were both standing there when it happened and both claimed to want one.
Long story short, we managed to convince them to sell them to us after a brief stall at the cash, and to really sweeten the deal, managed to return them in Canada using an earlier receipt for a net gain of over $320…wow, good times.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Wow, there’s some immorality for you.
Sam
September 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I was with you until that last part of the story, I guess… but then you guys pretty much committed theft.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 am
“The Big Millennium Falcon: it’s like catnip for dillholes.”