Kraft Cheese and ToysRUs discount coupon promotion

[griffin]

I finally got to the TRU store today, and spoke to the manager who confirmed that these are being treated as Gift Cards (as per the Kraft T&Cs), and as such, you now need to spend at least $5 to get the free $5 from the sticker.
That's really sucky timing, and even though it wouldn't affect most people looking to knock off $5 from a purchase, it now means that these can't be used on anything that's under $10.... including Lego Minifigures, which would have been free before they went into administration.
And the annoying thing is that with most prices in TRU ending in 99 cents, it means that it is almost impossible to get something at half price by finding something exactly $10. (like, you can't even get two Minifigures to make them half price, because it wouldn't be over $10, so you'd need to get three of them to use the $5 coupon.... now spending $9.97 with the coupon, instead of spending nothing before Administration kicked in)


On the plus side, TRU probably won't have any more discount sales before the final clearance of stock (if they end up winding up the business), so $5 off each toy until July could still at least be something (on the cheaper ones).
The down side is that TRU probably won't be getting any new stock in while under administration... so if there isn't anything in stock at the moment for you to use these with, I'm fearing that we won't see anything new there before July to use them on.

[Firestorm]

I finally got to the TRU store today, and spoke to the manager who confirmed that these are being treated as Gift Cards (as per the Kraft T&Cs), and as such, you now need to spend at least $5 to get the free $5 from the sticker.
That's really sucky timing, and even though it wouldn't affect most people looking to knock off $5 from a purchase, it now means that these can't be used on anything that's under $10.... including Lego Minifigures, which would have been free before they went into administration.
And the annoying thing is that with most prices in TRU ending in 99 cents, it means that it is almost impossible to get something at half price by finding something exactly $10. (like, you can't even get two Minifigures to make them half price, because it wouldn't be over $10, so you'd need to get three of them to use the $5 coupon.... now spending $9.97 with the coupon, instead of spending nothing before Administration kicked in)


On the plus side, TRU probably won't have any more discount sales before the final clearance of stock (if they end up winding up the business), so $5 off each toy until July could still at least be something (on the cheaper ones).
The down side is that TRU probably won't be getting any new stock in while under administration... so if there isn't anything in stock at the moment for you to use these with, I'm fearing that we won't see anything new there before July to use them on.

So basically if I were to say, want to use one of these coupons to make the price of a prime master easier t swallow. I can’t. Because they cost 9.99 and thus after subtracting the $5 from the coupon I’d only be paying 4.99, 1 cent off the mandatory $5? That’s petty dumb. But most toys r us stores tend to have lollies and other cheap stuff near the counter. So I could grab like a chuppa chupp or something for less than a dollar alongside the prime master and then the coupon could be used?

[UltraMarginal]

that would work.
it would also knock $5 off the price of a legend... making it fairly palatable.

[griffin]

It kinda sucks for anything $9.99 and under, as you'd need to get something else with it to make up the minimum purchase amount for these $5 coupons.... and with their prices of things over $30 being $5 or more above stores like Kmart, BigW and sometimes Target, it ends up leaving you with a narrow window of products to make the most use of these.

Probably the best things for these will be the Legends class ($20), and to a lesser extend Deluxes ($30)... but as Firestorm suggested, getting a Prime Master and the cheapest thing you can find (like a lollipop) will still mean a close-to-halfprice Prime Master.