Shameful Practices of Toys R Us

I was originally shocked by the ripoff pricing they had for the Countdown Ultra toys earlier and was pleased to see a catalogue arrive in the mail box.

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My pleasure was soon dissapated by the deceptive nature of the catalogues, they are trying to make the consumer think they have have a bargain when it is not. It goes to show that Toys R Us are either nasty or incompetent.

It amazes me that they have "hot price" tags or "great value" tags on all the movie toys listed and yet they are what looks like normal retail price. Leaders are priced at $99.99 (Hot price) and I remember seeing them before the sale for the princely sum of $109.99. Yet animated Leaders were only $99.99 for the full price. Why the increase in $10 for a full price toy?

Added to that it they seem toy class the G1 Mighty Muggs as "Transformers 2 Mighty Muggs." Well they don't look like any Tfs in the TF2 movie that I have spotted so far. Deceptive efforts to sell these ugly blocks of plastic.

About the only saving grace is that they appear to have abandoned their ridiculous pricing of $39.99 for Animated Deluxes, which have now dropped back to $29.99 ("Hot Price" despite all the new Movie deluxes coming in).

$149.99 for Ultimate Battle Charged Bumblebee! "Huge Value" more like massive rip-off!

No wonder they are still trying to get rid of last 2007's transformer movie toys.

You disgust me Toys R Us. I shall now hereby forever refer to you as "Toys R WHAT?????" as you are either evil or incompetent. I will not spend a single cent on your movie figures and I will encourage my friends and family to spend their money else where when they are shopping for toys.

Thanks I for reading, I just needed to get that off my chest.:o
Might email this (or something along the same lines) to toys r us as well, now that I think of it


*Update*
Turns out they don't supply a contact email address on their website. Now I will write a letter. Wooo I love to have a complain every now and then.

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It amazes me that they have "hot price" tags or "great value" tags on all the movie toys listed and yet they are what looks like normal retail price.

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Check the supermarket shelves next time you're in Coles or Safeway. They do a similar thing.

as soon as you put a disscount sticker on something, no matter what the reduction, people will buy it :)

i do it at work all the time, take 50c of an item, sells like hotcakes :P

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Originally Posted by blackie

as soon as you put a disscount sticker on something, no matter what the reduction, people will buy it :)

i do it at work all the time, take 50c of an item, sells like hotcakes :P

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He's not talking about a discount sticker or reduction. He means that stickers are put on that imply a reduction but are actually the normal price.

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Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger

He's not talking about a discount sticker or reduction. He means that stickers are put on that imply a reduction but are actually the normal price.

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sometimes, so am i :P

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

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You disgust me Toys R Us. I shall now hereby forever refer to you as "Toys R WHAT?????"...........

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That was good :D lol
I wonder if it would of been any better if "World 4 Kids" was still around..?:confused:
"and no, i don't mean the toy section in Kmart "that's" all that has become of it"

I've heard speculations (more, than likely true IMO :) )...

That sometime before a sale that they increase the price then decrease it slightly during the sale?:confused:

I'm going to sound like a defender or apologist, but I don't see these guys to be any more nasty than any of the others, and I disagree with some of your findings (or at least they were different for me).

1. Hot Price
I think the general intention here is to showcase a product. The difference between whats being showcased vs. what's on sale is very clear. If somethings on sale, it immediately and clearly tells you either how much you save in dollars or what percentage off. I find the difference to be quite clear. Also, you will find this is practiced by the others as well, as recently as the Bumblebee 3-pack at Big W. $48 is their regular price.

2. ROTF Leader Pricing
These have been $99.99 at my TRUs since May 28th.

3. Animated Deluxe Pricing
These (and all other Deluxes) have been $29.99 at my TRUs since I started collecting in 2007. Perhaps you're confusing with Myer's increase to $39.95 or TRU's Voyager increase from $49.99 to $69.99?

4. Ultimate Bumbelebee
Yes, $149 is a hugh rip-off. To me, $50 for that toy is a huge rip-off! :D But again, for the point of comparison, it's listed in Kmart's catalogue for $199, although I don't believe any have been sighted there yet.

All that being said, they're still extortionists and I wish they'd just get be able to realize that if they sold for less, they would sell, more, and thus make more.

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

I wish they'd just get be able to realize that if they sold for less, they would sell, more, and thus make more.

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Logic isn't allowed in some stores

sounds like a mixture of psychological sales techniques.

Just like when they pulled the bait catalogue over 10 years ago advertising g2 megatron tank for $20 where in fact they were understocked but had plenty of other crappy over priced stock of unwanted characters.

toys r us ur on the list ! j.k

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

I'm going to sound like a defender or apologist, but I don't see these guys to be any more nasty than any of the others, and I disagree with some of your findings (or at least they were different for me).

1. Hot Price
I think the general intention here is to showcase a product. The difference between whats being showcased vs. what's on sale is very clear. If somethings on sale, it immediately and clearly tells you either how much you save in dollars or what percentage off. I find the difference to be quite clear. Also, you will find this is practiced by the others as well, as recently as the Bumblebee 3-pack at Big W. $48 is their regular price.

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I understand about the percentage off and savings, but when I first saw the catalogue, it came across to me that these were supposed to be good prices. The phrase "Hot Price" sounds like a try at a deal sales pitch. The same with "Great value". We all know that $17.99 isn't great value for an Activator, so is appears they are trying to con someone into thinking it is.
As for the Bumblebee at Big W, I assume that it was a "special buy" and won't be carried all the time, so that sort of thing is to be expected.

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

2. ROTF Leader Pricing
These have been $99.99 at my TRUs since May 28th.

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I checked these the week before the catalogue as I was looking for HA Bumblebee. They were definately $109.99 on the shelf price at my local

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

3. Animated Deluxe Pricing
These (and all other Deluxes) have been $29.99 at my TRUs since I started collecting in 2007. Perhaps you're confusing with Myer's increase to $39.95 or TRU's Voyager increase from $49.99 to $69.99?

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Nope, not confused.
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k3...o/SP_A0607.jpg
Dodgy picture from old phone, but that peg has correct stock on it.

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

4. Ultimate Bumbelebee
Yes, $149 is a hugh rip-off. To me, $50 for that toy is a huge rip-off! :D But again, for the point of comparison, it's listed in Kmart's catalogue for $199, although I don't believe any have been sighted there yet.

All that being said, they're still extortionists and I wish they'd just get be able to realize that if they sold for less, they would sell, more, and thus make more.

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Didn't know that ultimate Bumblebee was 199 elsewhere. Still too pricey though.

I guess Toys R What became the brunt of my rant as the other chains have had specials of some sort or the other on the movie toys already. That and the level of service is fairly poor and the $39.99 animated deluxe, which really got my goat.

My mind isn't changed, but thanks for the views fellas. I have quite a few peeves with shops of various forms, part of being a grumpy old man. One thing that has annoyed me lately is the shrinking of packets. Why does a 45gm bag of chips look the same and cost the same size as a 50gm bag of chips. Its things like these that seem under-handed IMO.