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News Credits: 3 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:37 pm

I just received my Battle Blades Optimus Prime that my friend bought me for my birthday from Kmart dot com. Not only did it arrive 2 weeks late after she paid for expedited shipping, IT ISN'T EVEN THE RIGHT TOY!!! :BOOM:

Its the crappy repaint of the crappy old Voyager Prime mould, Defender Prime. (And yes, she DID order the right toy)

I was scared when she said she got it from Kmart after what Ryan went through, but ye gods.

I hope they let me return it, as the box is bashed to hell because they used a huge packing box with no packing whatsoever. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1235 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:55 pm

Its happened to many a good collector.

Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:29 pm

It happen to me too~!
I brought the new generation wave with soundwave, red alert, megatorn
and they just shipped me the drift, prime and bumblebee ><
Them they really sucks~!
I will never buy transformer toys from them again ever~!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:06 pm

Man, no wonder is KMart is going out of business! I've heard nothing but horror stories about online, and the last time I was in a KMart, I felt like I was in the ghetto!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:34 pm

yup, that's what they do. you should of read the original post titled "terradive, tomahawk, etc. now at kmart" you'll see all the horror stories of some of us who have boughten from that site.. I only buy from Kmart at the store, no ordering online for me through them.. F that.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:40 am

I have a friend who works at a K-sears. She really advised me not to ever buy from the online store. She advised me not to go into the regular store unless I had to. It's like walking into a morgue. But she'll keep me posted on anything I'm looking for.

I'm not holding my breath, since when does K-mart the store get anything at all?

News Credits: 3 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:50 am

Have any of you had any luck returning the messed up orders and getting the correct items?

It is my birthday today so I opened my other parcels, it seems K Mart was setting a trend in getting me the wrong things, lol. Not one thing I asked for, I can see they tried to get the right thing, just messed up. Sigh.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:24 am

Shoulda listened to Rain Man...Kmart sucks!

Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:48 pm

Haha we still have a K-Mart here....Is it just me, or are they DEPRESSING as HELL. The most un-organized, dirty, rude store on the planet. Ant the prices are UN-BELIEVEABLE. K-Mart is a LAST resort for me.

News Credits: 4 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:58 pm

Shop smart, shop S-Mart!

News Credits: 12 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:01 pm

Energon Is My Drug wrote:... the last time I was in a KMart, I felt like I was in the ghetto!

My local Krack-Mart is like that too. The floor tile is old and cracked and yellowed, it smells funny, things are always in disarray, and most of the people shopping there are ancient or disabled. It's really depressing. And to top it all off, they have the nerve to charge MORE than MSRP, more than other retailers. Aren't they supposed to be a "discount" department store? The difference between K-Mart and Target (or Walmart) is night and day.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:30 pm

I agree wholeheartedly with every poster, although I've never tried the online Kmart. Seems easier to find better deals elsewhere.

BUT,

My local Kmart usually has some of the older Transformer figures that other stores have stopped carrying altogether. I use them as a last resort, simply because it does seem a little creepy in there.

News Credits: 16 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:33 pm

craggy wrote:Shop smart, shop S-Mart!

I went in there looking for toys, but all I got was a Deadite chewing on my face :evil:

Never again!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:49 pm

K-mart has benefited me a couple of times:
1-they had the Ice Cream twins right away.
2-they had the PCC two months before any other store in my area
3-they had a Divebomb on shelf after everybody else stopped carrying him.

I refuse to shop online there, but every once in a while, their lackluster habits benefit the shopper.

Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:44 pm

I ordered WFC Soundwave and Megatron from them last week got them yesterday and it was WFC Prime and BB. I was really upset with that. Online is my only choice for Kmart as here in Houston they have just about all closed. The closest one is 45 minutes from me and its just not worth the drive. I may be mistaken but I thought that WFC Soundwave and Megatron are Kmart Exclusives. It that correct?

News Credits: 1235 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:00 pm

kenm2474 wrote:I ordered WFC Soundwave and Megatron from them last week got them yesterday and it was WFC Prime and BB. I was really upset with that. Online is my only choice for Kmart as here in Houston they have just about all closed. The closest one is 45 minutes from me and its just not worth the drive. I may be mistaken but I thought that WFC Soundwave and Megatron are Kmart Exclusives. It that correct?

Soundwave and Megatron are general releases. I got my Megatron at TRU and I just saw him at Wal-mart today.

Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:24 am

It Is Him wrote:
craggy wrote:Shop smart, shop S-Mart!

I went in there looking for toys, but all I got was a Deadite chewing on my face

Never again!

Bruce Campbell is a God among men.

Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:56 am

Kmart used to be something special, especially when we had a Super Kmart nearby (when that new facility opened, still in Walmart Supercenter's infancy, it was glorious). They started to go down in the late 90s and early 2000s when they hit bankruptcy.

When the Sears-Kmart merger was announced in 2004, I had hopes that Sears would be able to raise the Kmart brand back to some level of prominence. As it turns out, the opposite happened: Kmart brought Sears down to crappy levels, and Kmart themselves sank lower. Sears has lost quality of both merchandise and the physical store - it feels like a Kmart. And Kmarts are old, grungy, run down...makes me feel like I'm in the wrong part of town.

I've only been in Kmart once or twice this year. I had decided to add some MiniCons to Universe Unicron, so I went to Kmart to see if they still had any of the Universe 10-packs. They did. Over half a dozen of them were warming the shelves. Heaven forbid they have them marked down to get rid of them. I had to pay full price for a shelfwarmer that wasn't going anywhere in the near future.

I now avoid both Kmart and Sears like the plague.

News Credits: 16 · Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:55 am

WeatherManNX01 wrote:Kmart used to be something special, especially when we had a Super Kmart nearby (when that new facility opened, still in Walmart Supercenter's infancy, it was glorious). They started to go down in the late 90s and early 2000s when they hit bankruptcy.

When the Sears-Kmart merger was announced in 2004, I had hopes that Sears would be able to raise the Kmart brand back to some level of prominence. As it turns out, the opposite happened: Kmart brought Sears down to crappy levels, and Kmart themselves sank lower. Sears has lost quality of both merchandise and the physical store - it feels like a Kmart. And Kmarts are old, grungy, run down...makes me feel like I'm in the wrong part of town.

I've only been in Kmart once or twice this year. I had decided to add some MiniCons to Universe Unicron, so I went to Kmart to see if they still had any of the Universe 10-packs. They did. Over half a dozen of them were warming the shelves. Heaven forbid they have them marked down to get rid of them. I had to pay full price for a shelfwarmer that wasn't going anywhere in the near future.

I now avoid both Kmart and Sears like the plague.

Oh yeah, I forgot all about that whole Kmart bankruptcy thing. That does seem to explain why Kmarts are so crappy.

Still, I wouldn't discount Kmart stores altogether. For patient bargain shoppers, they're the best place to go! Eventually all their exclusives go on clearance. Earlier this summer I got the ROTF Legends 4-pack for $6 - originally marked from $25. And right after Botcon, all their exclusives were marked down, too. Too bad I felt like I had to pass on them... cause really, I shouldn't have even bought the rare variant Animated Voyager Prime with the shoulder Autobot symbol for a whopping $8.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Sep 11, 2010 10:51 am

I got Supreme Devastator from the sh*thole for $25... Then again, the fig kinda sucks a lot so I should probably look at that as a negative, too.

Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:36 pm

Kibble wrote:I got Supreme Devastator from the sh*thole for $25... Then again, the fig kinda sucks a lot so I should probably look at that as a negative, too.

Ohh Lord I remember that. Hasbro had the decision to make a Supreme toy between That pile of crap or a Supreme Animated Omega Supreme. Again Hasbro made the wrong Decision.

News Credits: 3 · Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:39 am

A progress report...

I spent an hour on the phone with a Kmart representative. Managed to get the shipping refunded. Turns out they do not have any Battle Blades Primes in stock at all, they have used the same warehouse number for all voyager primes, probably the same with generations.

I am going to head to the local Kmart today to get the money back on this thing.

Ordered it from BBTS anyway, lol

News Credits: 241 · Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:43 am

kenm2474 wrote:
Kibble wrote:I got Supreme Devastator from the sh*thole for $25... Then again, the fig kinda sucks a lot so I should probably look at that as a negative, too.

Ohh Lord I remember that. Hasbro had the decision to make a Supreme toy between That pile of crap or a Supreme Animated Omega Supreme. Again Hasbro made the wrong Decision.

If I remember right, the first Animated Supreme, Rollout Command Optimus Prime didn't sell too well. Go figure. Would you rather have run the risk of retailers not ordering Omega because they still have Prime to deal with than release a Supreme in the movie line which has a better chance of seeing shelf space?

News Credits: 10 · Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:03 pm

For some reason they cancelled my order for the latest generations wave a week or two ago. Now I'm glad I did not pursue the order and just let it be cancelled!

News Credits: 5749 · Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:48 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
kenm2474 wrote:
Kibble wrote:I got Supreme Devastator from the sh*thole for $25... Then again, the fig kinda sucks a lot so I should probably look at that as a negative, too.

Ohh Lord I remember that. Hasbro had the decision to make a Supreme toy between That pile of crap or a Supreme Animated Omega Supreme. Again Hasbro made the wrong Decision.

If I remember right, the first Animated Supreme, Rollout Command Optimus Prime didn't sell too well. Go figure. Would you rather have run the risk of retailers not ordering Omega because they still have Prime to deal with than release a Supreme in the movie line which has a better chance of seeing shelf space?

The reason TFA Rollout OP didn't sell well was because he made no sense. He was the forth OP figure in that line(not including anything under deluxe class), he didn't scale with anything, and he had a terrible gimmick. If they felt the need to make a supreme class figure for TFA it should have been Omega Supreme. Fans would have been fighting each other to get him. Instead they went with yet another OP, that no one wanted. As for supreme class ROTF Devy, they were going to make that no matter what.