ToysRus Transformers ROTF sale!

Here's the prices for Target's sale that started Sunday.

Sale Prices

Deluxe- $8.99
Leader- $39.99
Power Bots- $18.99
Superion- $27.99

Prices after 20% coupon.

Deluxe- $7.19
Leader- $31.99
Power Bots- $15.19
Superion- $22.39

Remember that Target has a 2-week limit on sale price match...
BUT their receipts are good for 90 days.

The Voyagers at Target is $17.59 with the 20% of coupon when you buy four TF items.
I've been wondering if the TF M&Ms work for this. Hmmmm?

I'm headed to Target here in a few to get a sales price match for the ones I bought
last week with just the 20% off coupon.

would be sweet if TRU took target's coupons..... anyone know?

2 voyagers for $25 is a great deal.

so this is kind of odd, and you may run into this too.

So i went to the TRU by my office, grabbed a voyager fallen and starscream (dont know why him), and took him to the counter, where the manager, or omega !@#$% was on the phone. she rang them up, and i asked her about the gift card. she said it needed to be over 30. i said they are over 30, and she said no, the subtotal right now is 26 something. and i was like uhh.... ok. so i went and grabbed another voyager, hoping that maybe they are only 14 or something, and she rang it up, rang up a giftcard as well, and said the total was like 56 or so. i thought for a second, but then she started gettin pissy, so i just went ahead and swiped it and decided i would figure it out later.

so, turns out, regular price voyager is 22.99, - $5 promo = 17.99, as displayed. So two 17.99's would have been over 30, but instead, what rang up, was 22.99 - $5 promo - $5 gift card, and at the end, there is an additional charge for a $10 gift card. It looks like, the way you get the "free" $10 gift card, is that they split the $10 discount among your purchases, and then add $10 at the end, along with the gift card.

so after the 3rd voyager that I got, it came out to be $22.99 - $5 - $3.34 for a $14.65 voyager.
so 3 voyagers + $10 gift card cost (before tax) = 53.97 + $10 gift card, so essentially $14.65 per voyager.
if it worked out the correct way, which should have been 2 voyagers at $17.99 + a $10 gift card at the end, then it should be $12.99 per voyager, because you wouldn't have needed to get a 3rd one to get over the $30 mark.

Not sure if anyone follows that, it's a bit complicated, and I'm hoping that the TRU near you doesn't do that, but at a $1.66 difference per, i dont want to see her again.

anyone else run into this problem? I wanted to pick up a leader, but I'm worried that if this problem happens again, the leader will be $29.99, with the way the gift-card is applied, and thus reducing the % savings. I also did not get a bumblebee gift card, but like i said, i didn't want to die in a toy store.

It's times like this that I'm glad I live in the boonies
where there's no TRU's and only Targets to deal with...
less hassle.

I'd scan my receipt, but after all is said and done, I ended up paying a little over $6 each for a pair of Deluxes and $12 for a Voyager, among other really low prices yesterday.

yea, my woman was crazy. I went back there yesterday, and picked up HA bumblebee just fine, got the $10 gift card no problems, and then I used it on a leader prime, and got the gift card for that too.

I have a feeling today is the last day of the sale, so I gotta get over to another TRU to pick up leader megs soon. Doesn't sound like anyone else has run into that kind of problem, which is good to hear.

flamewavex wrote:yea, my woman was crazy.

flamewavex, Yeah, your cashier was an idiot. I got a cashier like that when I tried to return some toys after I figured out how the promo works and wanted to make sure I only got what I wanted and maximized the value. keep in mind the Toys R Us Transformers gift cards have to be used by AUGUST 31 2009 or they're worthless, so use them fast or say goodbye to your hard-earned dollars.

What happened with me is, after successfully returning several toys in Columbia, Md, I visited the Catonsville MD store to return a couple more things, including the Transformers Chess Set which I had seen got horrible reviews. The lady at customer service asked if I had the gift card and I explained to her that the other store told me I was supposed to keep it--I had in fact tried to return a gift card there with the toys I bought on that receipt and they wouldn't return it, and I got all my money back except the $10 I paid for the gift card. Anyway in Catonsville the lady was convinced I somehow got the gift card free, despite that the receipt clearly shows a $10 charge for it, and the amount of the refund I would get if I returned all the toys would still be $10 short of the charge to my credit card. Of course I had used another gift card to make that purchase so she claimed that I paid the $10 with a free gift card from a previous transaction. Exasperated, I tried to show her the breakdown and that every gift card is paid for no matter what because of the way the promo works, and that while she was welcome to try processing a return on the gift card for me, and I'd be happy to oblige to get my $10 back, it wouldn't work. She kept insisting I had to give the gift card back, without getting any money back, because it was free.

After waiting 15 minutes for her to help other customers and trying to explain basic math to her three times, I gave up and proceeded to tell her how ridiculous she was being and that she could go to the opposite of heaven while I returned the toys in Columbia. I then went to Columbia, and returned all the toys without any questions, comments, or problems whatsoever, and filed a complaint at the Toys R Us website. I will now be returning all the remaining toys I bought except the three I wanted most. And I will never, ever, ever buy on a similar Toys R Us promo again. Target's promo was much better--paying less dollars up front is far smarter than taking on unsecured debt with an expiration date. (Yes, gift cards are unsecured debt, and if companies go bankrupt, you go poor. That's why I would never in my life advise anyone to directly purchase a gift card of any kind.)