They've never done this (raising the price of an item to more than double what it should cost) before, ever. Why would they start now? And why $30, what was wrong with $16? And what would raising the price to double what they should cost do? Just make people not buy them, which is an absolutely ******ed idea. Target just went batshit insane, is all.
maybe the stores are preparing for a BOGO FREE sale? or even the more remote possibility they were able to find some last wave stock at a higher-than-normal cost to distribute?
This isn't normal pricing, this is probably related to ushering those toys out in some fashion. The detail of the number ending in a zero is a big clue that there's something going on here. The ending numbers at chain stores have meanings. For example, from The Consumerist: I would wager the 0 ending has a meaning akin to "get this crap outta here". It might be something else, but it means something.
Thinking about it, I thought it was their strategy to mark things up high but then cut the prices with a sale to fake that you have a stupid crazy deal. So far I think they haven't stuck to the latter part of the plan.
You're definitely right about that being the Zellers way, and since its such a horribly ran business in general (no really, looking at how Zellers ran from pretty much any perspective is almost like reading into a case study that's intentionally being written to exaggerate points to horrid extremes), it'll die out long before ever getting its return, leaving only a cloud of Burning Fallens to its name.
If they do that shit without receipts (as your bill would likely have the real price instead of the 30 dollar one), then just buy the shit you opened from TRU or Wal-Mart & use that.
For those who are wondering, I'm 95% sure a return to Target requires either the original or gift receipt or the credit/debit card used for the purchase (which they use to look up your original purchase info.) If for some reason things have changed since I last checked, I would expect them to follow the Walmart way of handling returns without a receipt which is giving you a gift card for the lowest price that the item has had.
Pretty much, but there isn't a Target anywhere near me, and since somebody wrote about getting store credit or whatever, I figured I'd poke at the possibility of pulling something silly like that off.
That's Kohls whole philosophy! Nothing illegal about it. A $50 shirt on sale for $30 and oh, they just happen to have 20% off! They're selling you on the fact that it's on sale and hope you bite on the great deal you think you're getting. When, in actuality, it's what you would pay normally anywhere else.
