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RE: Toys R Us dumping TR6

To: "'Day.John@fin.gc.ca'" <Day.John@fin.gc.ca>
Subject: RE: Toys R Us dumping TR6
From: "Hutmacher, Greg" <ghutmacher@stanleyworks.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:51:22 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "'Triumphs List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
I've seen the red TR6 go for $52 on eBay.  Plus shipping. Talk about profit
margin. 
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        From:  Day.John@fin.gc.ca [SMTP:Day.John@fin.gc.ca]
        Sent:  Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:12 PM
        To:  JackR@SHRIVERCO.COM; triumphs@autox.team.net
        Subject:  RE: Toys R Us dumping TR6


        I get a kick out of how the same item can cost in the vicinity of
$29 from
        'specialist' sources, and $15 from a simple toy store. Talk about
exploiting
        the market.

        And before you ask - no, I'm not a socialist (would a socialist
drive such
        'bourgeois' cars as a TR3A and TR6?) - just an observer of such
things in
        this, our mutual obsession!

        Cheers, JD

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Radley, Jack [SMTP:JackR@SHRIVERCO.COM]
                Sent:   January 20, 1999 1:54 PM
                To:     'triumphs@autox.team.net'
                Subject:        Toys R Us dumping TR6


                After checking, double checking and then triple-checking I
found the
                ERTL die cast TR6 in Cincinnati.  I had the computer checked
and
        found
                that the model is stocked in only two of the local stores -
        Tri-County
                and Eastgate.  Every one of the TR6's in stock was moved to
the
                clearance rack.  At $15 a copy and no prospect of getting
one again
        at
                that price and without the cost and hassle of a mail order,
I bought
        4.
                Thanks for the Toys R US tip.

                Jack Radley
                76TR6

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