ascmclarencoupe
02-01-2006, 12:40 PM
My wife called me on Sunday from the local WM, she was browsing the clearance section and said “there is this huge die-cast Millennium Falcon that I don’t think you have. Is it something you might want?”
The only large die-cast MF that I knew of was the Code 3 model and she confirmed that it was a Code 3. When I asked her how much it was, she said $249.00 and my excitement quickly went downhill.
Monday morning after dropping my son off at school, I stopped by the store to check it out, it had been opened and the outside box had a lot of shelf wear on it but it appeared to be intact otherwise. Still $249.00 was too much for me to spend on an item that I may not be able to return if I got it home and found out it was damaged inside. Besides, I have seen these sell new on eBay for around $220.00.
But the thought of that Falcon sitting there so close to home was eating at me all Monday evening and it had occurred to me that maybe it would actually scan for less than that at the checkout since it was in the clearance section, or maybe I could persuade a mgr. that it needed to be discounted more. :lipsrseal
Then I started reading some MF posts on the Code 3 forms and back in the spring that there were some posts about some Wal-Marts selling them for $249.00 and by the fall they were marked down to as low as $125.00.
Yesterday afternoon I stopped by again, this time with the intention of having it scanned, the whole clearance section had been gone through and re-organized. The Falcon was still there but now it had a large red clearance price tag that said “was 249.00 now 128.00”. I put it in the cart and headed for the checkout lane.
When I got home from work last night, I almost couldn’t contain my excitement and it felt like Christmas morning as I opened everything up and inspected it. I was pleasantly surprised that everything was there and in perfect shape. It appeared that it had not been opened other than the outside boxes themselves.
Sorry for the long off-topic post but I just had to share my joy and wanted to give a heads up to anyone else like me that have been wanting one of these but couldn’t afford to spend $295.00 to get one.
Now, back to hunting Titaniums.
The only large die-cast MF that I knew of was the Code 3 model and she confirmed that it was a Code 3. When I asked her how much it was, she said $249.00 and my excitement quickly went downhill.
Monday morning after dropping my son off at school, I stopped by the store to check it out, it had been opened and the outside box had a lot of shelf wear on it but it appeared to be intact otherwise. Still $249.00 was too much for me to spend on an item that I may not be able to return if I got it home and found out it was damaged inside. Besides, I have seen these sell new on eBay for around $220.00.
But the thought of that Falcon sitting there so close to home was eating at me all Monday evening and it had occurred to me that maybe it would actually scan for less than that at the checkout since it was in the clearance section, or maybe I could persuade a mgr. that it needed to be discounted more. :lipsrseal
Then I started reading some MF posts on the Code 3 forms and back in the spring that there were some posts about some Wal-Marts selling them for $249.00 and by the fall they were marked down to as low as $125.00.
Yesterday afternoon I stopped by again, this time with the intention of having it scanned, the whole clearance section had been gone through and re-organized. The Falcon was still there but now it had a large red clearance price tag that said “was 249.00 now 128.00”. I put it in the cart and headed for the checkout lane.
When I got home from work last night, I almost couldn’t contain my excitement and it felt like Christmas morning as I opened everything up and inspected it. I was pleasantly surprised that everything was there and in perfect shape. It appeared that it had not been opened other than the outside boxes themselves.
Sorry for the long off-topic post but I just had to share my joy and wanted to give a heads up to anyone else like me that have been wanting one of these but couldn’t afford to spend $295.00 to get one.
Now, back to hunting Titaniums.