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WolfDawg wrote:Yea, I figured the price was an error. Matter of fact, I said that earlier in the thread but my theory was shot down. Glad to know I was right!!!


I'm glad I picked up this figure too. I really wanted that purple Shockwave but refused to pay 25 bucks for a repaint.

Thats not bad for 25 you get a voyager regular price 22 + an activator which is regular price 8 so you save 5 bucks

That's true, Nemesis, but I already had the show accurate colored Shockwave and I'm not a fan of animated BB, so I only wanted the set for the novelty of displaying Target Shockwave as Shockwave and the original as Longarm Prime. That novelty wasn't worth it, despite the 5 dollar savings.

Im displayin my purple shockwave ill have to setle for this one i cant afford the real g1 .

nemesis-prime wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:I told my friend about the sale and he stopped by his local target today and the remaining sunstorm was back at normal price. He did bitch about it and the manager said that they couldnt do any thing because of the system. I also noticed that both sets were pulled from the website. This had to be a screw up. A new set going from $25 to $5 in less than 2 weeks? You know some ones getting fired. I just can believe how fast they sold. On friday the entire end cap was full and 1 day after the sale there was only one sunstorm left. I have the feeling that every scalper came out for these. I dont think that im going to open Sunstorm after all. It seems that these guys are rare now. I really wanted Shockwave too. Well i got the gray one at least. I would like to thank seibertron.com and the person/s who let us know about this deal. I just wish i got there sooner.

As Vince McMan says "YOURRRRRRRRREEEEEEE FFFFFFIIIIIIRRRREEEEDDD"

yeah you lost me with that one. But its nice to see i still think in those little yellow boxes. Huh? Just a box..........!

Megatron_Wolf wrote:

nemesis-prime wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:I told my friend about the sale and he stopped by his local target today and the remaining sunstorm was back at normal price. He did bitch about it and the manager said that they couldnt do any thing because of the system. I also noticed that both sets were pulled from the website. This had to be a screw up. A new set going from $25 to $5 in less than 2 weeks? You know some ones getting fired. I just can believe how fast they sold. On friday the entire end cap was full and 1 day after the sale there was only one sunstorm left. I have the feeling that every scalper came out for these. I dont think that im going to open Sunstorm after all. It seems that these guys are rare now. I really wanted Shockwave too. Well i got the gray one at least. I would like to thank seibertron.com and the person/s who let us know about this deal. I just wish i got there sooner.

As Vince McMan says "YOURRRRRRRRREEEEEEE FFFFFFIIIIIIRRRREEEEDDD"

yeah you lost me with that one. But its nice to see i still think in those little yellow boxes. Huh? Just a box..........!

that was a WWF/WWE reference

I went to my local target this morning. Apparently, the NEW sale price on the Sunstorm and Shockwave is indeed $22.49. At least at my stores

Sorry about... well.. spazing before gang. Too much crap, too many family problems all at the same time.

I did end up calling that Target and they told me they only had 2 Sunstorms and 2 Shockwaves. Well, that was as of opening. I asked him to go check the shelf if he would and he told me they were sold out. Fine. Saves me driving 80 miles. Sad thing is, even if the sale hadn't happened, I would have gone down and grabbed a Sunstorm anyways.

I got lucky. My brother did managed to listen to his voice mail and grabbed me 2 Sunstorms and 2 Shockwaves. I only asked for one SS but hey, I'm not complaining. Sucks that he's about 700 miles away but that boy finally did something good with his life. lol

He asked if I wanted him to take some back but after I saw the pictures he emailed me, I saw one of the SS's were damaged in package ( the shoulder spring was completely out and flopping around) and I didn't want some kid getting a defective transformers - like we've been doing for a while. I'll probably give one of the SW's to my youngest bro - he likes purple. lol.

Now if only Tru had in their exclusives. lol. At least that's one less headache for me.

Thanks for the help.

I emerge victorious!

Due to illnesses in the fam I couldn't go to Target Sunday or Monday. I rechecked the price online Tuesday morning and tried a couple stores. I found a Sunstorm/Ratchet set, but was told the price was $22.49 (? I think). Going from $5 to more than $20 was a bit too jilting, so I walked away. Later yesterday afternoon I noticed the target exclusives had been pulled from the website.

The whole thing left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth, so this morning I went through my cache, found the page with the exclusives at the $5 price, printed them up and tried at another store. That Target still had the $5 sale price on the shelf, but no figs stocked.

I checked at the service desk and the man at the desk said that they did have some in the stock room. He went back and returned with one of each exclusive. Flush with this success, I decided to ask if there were more in stock and he brought up one more of each!

He rang up the figs and it came to $96+ dollars. The computer was still trying to say that the price was $22.49. I pointed out the price on the printout I had brought in and also mentioned the sale tag on the shelf and the guy went ahead and let me have them for the $5 price! Two Sunstorm/Ratchet packs and two Shockwave/Bumblebee packs for just over $20! It was quite a bit of trouble to go through, but for that price it was well worth it.

nemesis-prime wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:

nemesis-prime wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:I told my friend about the sale and he stopped by his local target today and the remaining sunstorm was back at normal price. He did bitch about it and the manager said that they couldnt do any thing because of the system. I also noticed that both sets were pulled from the website. This had to be a screw up. A new set going from $25 to $5 in less than 2 weeks? You know some ones getting fired. I just can believe how fast they sold. On friday the entire end cap was full and 1 day after the sale there was only one sunstorm left. I have the feeling that every scalper came out for these. I dont think that im going to open Sunstorm after all. It seems that these guys are rare now. I really wanted Shockwave too. Well i got the gray one at least. I would like to thank seibertron.com and the person/s who let us know about this deal. I just wish i got there sooner.

As Vince McMan says "YOURRRRRRRRREEEEEEE FFFFFFIIIIIIRRRREEEEDDD"

yeah you lost me with that one. But its nice to see i still think in those little yellow boxes. Huh? Just a box..........!

that was a WWF/WWE reference

yeah i know whats its from but i guess im missing the context of it.

sockmonkey wrote:I emerge victorious!

Due to illnesses in the fam I couldn't go to Target Sunday or Monday. I rechecked the price online Tuesday morning and tried a couple stores. I found a Sunstorm/Ratchet set, but was told the price was $22.49 (? I think). Going from $5 to more than $20 was a bit too jilting, so I walked away. Later yesterday afternoon I noticed the target exclusives had been pulled from the website.

The whole thing left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth, so this morning I went through my cache, found the page with the exclusives at the $5 price, printed them up and tried at another store. That Target still had the $5 sale price on the shelf, but no figs stocked.

I checked at the service desk and the man at the desk said that they did have some in the stock room. He went back and returned with one of each exclusive. Flush with this success, I decided to ask if there were more in stock and he brought up one more of each!

He rang up the figs and it came to $96+ dollars. The computer was still trying to say that the price was $22.49. I pointed out the price on the printout I had brought in and also mentioned the sale tag on the shelf and the guy went ahead and let me have them for the $5 price! Two Sunstorm/Ratchet packs and two Shockwave/Bumblebee packs for just over $20! It was quite a bit of trouble to go through, but for that price it was well worth it.

You wouldnt be able to send me that page by any chance could ya? For some reason i cant find those pages in my cache. Sorry for the double post im on my PS3 right now.

Does anyone else detect foul play here? They say they're on sell then they pull them from the shelves. I call shenanigans, now where's my broom?

The context is that somebody ultimately is responcible for the blunder that allowed the sale price to be that low.

For what ever reason, It seems that the sale price indeed was suppose to be about $23, but was gaffed at $5. Now that gaffed price was able to reach the print ad departments, the online flyer, the in store price markers, and the online web catalog. now if Target is set up anyway near the way it was when they were parnered with Amazon, then I know the system is similar to the way that Future Shop (Best Buy Canada) is which my friend works in the print ad division and laughs at what has happened here.

Those division are all maintained by different people and yet they all have the same (Clearly wrong) Information that had to get past advertising managers, store managers, and who knows how many office workers and techs. and yet it still got to that point. In reference for the print ads, those most likely had to be cleared and authorized for print atleast a week before they shipped.

It is highly unlikely that nobody thru that whole process would have missed the huge price difference (80%) and not said anything so somewhere along the line there had to be a manager, or supervisor who was presented with the data and either disregarded it or ignored what people told him.

This person/or persons has directly cost the company about $17 on each unit sold, and seeing I would doubt that Target pays more than 5-8 dollers a unit, they are running a loss on each unit.

Wiki states that Target has 1,685 stores (as of October 2008) so lets ball park this.

1685 locations, we are hearing that prior to the sale that store were running a handful up to 20 or so sets on display, so we'll round that to 12 sets (6 or each) per store so 20,220. Even if half of that was sold before they started pulling units, that is (at $17 lost per unit) a loss of $343,740.

If if does look like a single person is responcible, for a loss of over $340k than that person should be canned, or demoted to store level sent to the worst location they have and be made store janitor, with a special coveralls stating "I lost this company over $300k. Ask me how!"

I looked online last night (when the price was still $5) to investigate all this. I saw the $5 price and that you could only get it in stores. When I tried checking my local targets, there was a website search error.

So we ventured out and they had gazoodles of each (at the new price)

I thought about it and then saved my money.

I went to target at 8am when the store opened the toy section was trashed I guess noone did their job the night before the store computer said they still had 2 left in stock so they nice lady searched and found notta I hate the internet maybe they need a better inventory software. I want my $5 in gass back.

Does anyone remember when Titaniums first hit the shelves and they switched the prices of the 3 inch figs and the transformable ones? $14.99 Vs $4.99? I got in on that one too. My Target was sold out of the WW Prime and Cobra Megs the first day.
I wonder if Target has a spy working for the Transfans of the world?

"Here's to you Mr. Lower the prices of Transformers at Target and not tell anybody Guy."

On a side note, Aldi grocery store has Legends Class for $3.99. Animated Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Prowl and Classics Jazz. I picked up one of each. One Prowl had been opened before so I gave him to my son, (he really likes Prowl/streetbikes). Legends Prowl is the Perfect size in bike mode to play with or display next to deluxe vehicles like Bumblebee, and Voyager Optimus Prime.

Im glad i got while the gettin was good

and shouldnt this thread be renamed to Transformers animated on sale LAST sunday?

I wouldnt be surpised if we see the shelvs stocked again on monday at regular price . But I doubt it considering it was limited to 370 cases

They were still on sale yesterday but they were taking rain checks because most target were sold out.

Their gonna ruin this like deep space SS if they just decided to mass produce a lot more due to this sale. No rain checks if you miss out, im sorry, dont blame target something like this ruins the value of these sets.

ServO wrote:There are 4 Targets within striking distance of my home, and ALL of them are very poorly stocked...none of them have been re-stocked in over a month, and the pegs have been sitting empty since this sale began almost 3 weeks ago.
Complaining to the management doesn't do anything...I don't understand how they can have a sale on stuff they don't stock...my next complaint goes to the state of Minnesota.
It's simply false advertisment.

It's better that the ONE Cheetor on our shelves. That's all we have. crap.

The Target near me has dozens of Animated 2-packs on endcap at $22+.

BTW Target has TFU deluxes on clearance, I bought a Ratchet today.

Jst a reminder last day to get $8 deluxes is got a 6 at target today all they had left ....and last day to get buy 1 get 1 free blurray that includes 2007 transformers movie and ironman

Was at target today and guess what, the end cap was full again and they were $24.99 again. Now i know that there not rare im opening Sunstorm. Next time i get up there i may buy Shockwave. I look at it this way, if i add up the price for Shock with what i payed for Sunstorm i still saved. After tax and every thing each would come to a little over $16 so its still a $10 savings on each. They had nothing else but these guys. Well animated wise that is. I saw Ratchet but im not paying $12. Ill wait until TRU gets em and pay $10. I also noticed that Dinobot and Smokescreen arent selling. Target & the TRU across the street have a bunch. This is in riverhead, long island(NY) in case any one was curious.

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Was at target today and guess what, the end cap was full again and they were $24.99 again. Now i know that there not rare im opening Sunstorm. Next time i get up there i may buy Shockwave. I look at it this way, if i add up the price for Shock with what i payed for Sunstorm i still saved. After tax and every thing each would come to a little over $16 so its still a $10 savings on each. They had nothing else but these guys. Well animated wise that is. I saw Ratchet but im not paying $12. Ill wait until TRU gets em and pay $10. I also noticed that Dinobot and Smokescreen arent selling. Target & the TRU across the street have a bunch. This is in riverhead, long island(NY) in case any one was curious.

no 2 packs at all in stlouis....my friend from target searched and called other stores and they are not getting anymore. The animated were stocked back at 11.99 but i went to aldis and got a bumblebee for 8.99 . No universe at my friends store they are not carryin it anymore.