pjc613
Yellow Sparx
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#371 Posted: 02:49:34 11/05/2017
I'm honestly getting annoyed at the method Toys R Us is using to clear out their warehouse inventory. I skipped Trap Team originally, and have recently purchased it, and started collecting figures. At times, the deals Toys R Us has been offering on have been really good, BUT...
Toys R Us apparently has a bunch of trap masters (and by the look of it, SF and SC stuff) hanging out at a bunch of their warehouses, and they're releasing blocks of them at a time to their website. It seems like their tactic is to bring all old skylanders up to "full" price of $10 - they won't go any higher than that for older figures anymore), then release some of their inventory. Then, after a few days, they'll drop the price to $5, then back up to $10, but on a B1G2 deal, then finally just stick the price at $3 (like the one that just ended yesterday). But, they have inventory of a bunch of rare-ish ones, so even $5 is a more than decent deal, except if there's only one you're missing in that particular inventory release, because you're paying more for shipping than for the figure since it's all online, and there's almost no inventory at stores.
I had four trap masters left to purchase, and in the past couple of weeks they'd all come into and out of stock online at least once, so I put all of them in my cart at higher prices and just waited. Monday's $3 deal came around, and three of the four were still in stock online. Greaaat. So I broke down and bought those three, not knowing if TRU had any more of the last one (Krypt King), or when they'd release them if they did.
Sure enough, I check the site today, and whaddayaknow, the price is back up to $10, aaaaaand they released a big block of inventory, including Krypt King. Greeeaaaaat. Now, the cheapest I can find it for on ebay is something like $17, so it's about the same price as I'd currently get from TRU after shipping, but the game I'm now playing is whether it goes back out of stock again before the price drops. Apparently it's rare enough that buying new in box is costly (Nitro is cheaper than standard - weird. What's that about?), so I'm betting online sellers are buying a bunch of them up from TRU, even at the higher price. Will I miss out again?
Grr.
But, the good news is, if you're filling out your older collections, just check back in with TRU every couple days or so. If the last two weeks have been any indication, prices will be back down to $3 soon.
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