AUS Target DotM Competition & Website

[yoshi594]

I just hope the next wave comes in before the competition ends. hardly anything else i'd get from target now except powerglide and possibly another crankcase (provided the embedded numbers match the one i bought b4 )

[reillyd]

I just hope the next wave comes in before the competition ends. hardly anything else i'd get from target now except powerglide and possibly another crankcase (provided the embedded numbers match the one i bought b4 )

Its possible, but there's unlikely to be new stock for a few weeks, so you might just have to by legions as christmas gifts or gifts for "goodwill" to get the weekly card. I just hope that targets get new cards each week, because most don't even know or honor the promotion where I live

[griffin]

Yeah, a week isn't very long in retailing terms. If they got all their promotion cards at once with the display stand, they need staff-members there on the ball at the start of every week, knowing to give out new cards and 'throwing away' the previous week's cards. And all the people at the registers need to know about the promotion to remember giving out the Cards (one of many 'insignificant' things they'd need to be remembering on their shift - or be informed by Management at the start of their first shift during the promotion)
At least you guys knew about the promotion before it started, to know to ask for the Cards.

(and if anyone ends up getting a lot of spares to sell, I'd be interested in a set)

[Jaisun]

Mmkay, this is kinda wierd, and worries me of things to come re: collecting a set in sequence. I got my 4 week 1 cards when this started a week ago from TTP and Elizabeth, and today my wife wanted to go for a drive to Marion. There was just DotM stuff, which I have what I want of this wave already, so I bought my two sons a little 'mini library' which has 4 small thick card books of OP, BB, Megs and SS for $6 so I could see if they'd started the week 2 card yet. She showed me the only one they had, it was different from the 4 I had, so I thought 'yay, week 2 card!', but now that I've checked it out, it's actually the week 6 card! o.O Soooo, umm... Do we need to frequent EVERY local Target to keep track of which store is doing what card on what week? Gonna be a major mind job if it is...

And all the people at the registers need to know about the promotion to remember giving out the Cards (one of many 'insignificant' things they'd need to be remembering on their shift - or be informed by Management at the start of their first shift during the promotion)
At least you guys knew about the promotion before it started, to know to ask for the Cards.

Each time I got cards, they were stored at the service counter, so you just make your purchase and take your receipt up to the service counter person to get the card, because each card comes in a loose shrink wrapped stack. To distribute them amongst each register with so many shift changes and so many levels of 'care' etc from these employees (see: just there for the pay cheque) it would get messy, so I think taking the receipt to the service desk is the simplest way, as the people there usually have a bit more 'give a sh*t' factor than some of the register operators.

[griffin]

Sounds like they got all the cards at once with the shelf display, and some stores aren't aware of which ones to give out in which week.

Maybe if someone does a decent sized purchase at Target, ask for one of each of the 12 cards, saying that it prevents them from giving you the wrong one for that week. (it'd suck if they gave out an early week card in one of the later weeks, preventing you from being able to enter at all for that purchase)

[Jaisun]

(it'd suck if they gave out an early week card in one of the later weeks, preventing you from being able to enter at all for that purchase)

It certainly would, and yet, this is what we have come to expect from these stores =oP

[Jaisun]

Sounds like they got all the cards at once with the shelf display, and some stores aren't aware of which ones to give out in which week.

Maybe if someone does a decent sized purchase at Target, ask for one of each of the 12 cards, saying that it prevents them from giving you the wrong one for that week. (it'd suck if they gave out an early week card in one of the later weeks, preventing you from being able to enter at all for that purchase)

I thought along these lines also, but interestingly, when I explained the week 2/6 card issue to my wife, she said she was positive that the sticker on the shrink wrapping said 'week 2'. When you compare the two cards in question, they aren't all that different, so I would be inclined to think whoever stickered these up saw BB & OP on a landscape card, didn't bother checking the details that differ them, and marked them the wrong way around. That's just my guess, but if Target are indeed getting these sent out per week, then their week 2/week 6 is screwed. To further confirm this, I asked Hollywood Plaza Target today which card they had, and sure enough, it was the week 6 card. So I'm pretty sure they are sent out weekly, as they only had 4x stacks the first week (1 stack per card), and this week they have only 1 stack, it's just of the wrong, similarly pictured card/week. Does that make sense to anyone? =oP