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One wally by me has the Batmans funhouse, MF Vampyre castle, Weathertop and Mines of moria (plus smaller sets of all three themes) all sitting in the clearance isle, all red tagged at retail and all sadly scanning at retail. gonna have to keep checking every morning I guess.
The rest of their "clearance item" all scanned at full price. Shameful!
6 Ringwraiths down. 3 to go.
They had a 2012 Star Wars Advent Calendar in the clearance section marked down to a steal of a price of $49.97.
I could barely control my excitement, but decided to pass on it and give someone else the opportunity to purchase it.
I've never really found that many good clearance Legos, the best thing I found is probably an Uruk Hai army set for $20 at Target a week or so after Christmas.
Anyway, I had some free time to kill this afternoon since I locally travel for my job. I decided to run into a Wal Mart I was near. As soon as I walk in, a huge mob of people are near the front of the store, rummaging through some shelves of toys near the front of the store. Having no idea why they were doing this, I looked through. The only Legos I saw were the Mummy and Werewolf Monster Fighter sets, both at ~$6 and $20 respectfully. Nothing to write home about.
I walked back to toys and saw another little island of clearance toys, more Legos, including two Millennium Falcons, a couple X-Wings, Tie Fighter, and The Batcave. I overheard an employee saying to a lady that these sets, pointing to the Millennium Falcon and Batcave, should be up front with the big crowd. I asked him what that was about, and he said all the toys are no more than $5, since they are just trying to get rid of their remaining clearance. I was floored, and I repeated to him "So these are $5?" He said yes, and all I would need to do is take them to the employee near the mob and she would ring it up. I quickly grabbed the Falcon and Batcave, my most wanted ones there, and took them to her, where she confirmed they were $5 each. Granted, these were marked clearance at ~$137 and $69. I couldn't contain my excitement! I quickly checked out, afraid it was a mistake, and left. I texted my fiancee when I was back in the car. I was shaking I was so excited.
I decided to venture back inside to see if anything else there was clearance. I got back to where I found the sets and everything was gone. I saw two folks with carts bigger than them loaded up with toys and Legos. I watched as one of them grabbed a handful of Legos from the actual Lego isle, none of these were marked. She said to the other guy there that they were marked down too, so I quickly grabbed the only two she left, a Mandalorian Fighter and a Republic Strike Class Fighter. I had someone in Electronics ring me out since that is where they were gathering, and sure enough they were $5. Apparently they were marking things down throughout the day, so just because it wasn't marked clearance doesn't mean it wasn't. There didn't seem to be any other sets left, as I scanned a few sets I thought might be clearance but they came up normal price.
Congrats on the amazing finds, best "great deal find" story I've heard in quite some time!
Seriously though, awesome find! A hunter's dream for sure.
P.S please post a better scan of the receipt so I can price match at my Walmart. ;)
Congrats!
I think they would have been better off donating everything to goodwill, though, and taking the tax write off, which is what I thought they typically do...
So I asked if I could get all the sets at clearance price, and they said no. I was surprised.
Prices that defy logic. Items in strange locations. Bizarre (and zombie-like) responses from personnel.