Borders to liquidate entire inventory

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by bryceejones » Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:45 pm

Lees Summit MO is cleared out of CMF. I picked up the last 3.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by gamermic » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:34 am

Is there any signs of Series 5 around? any discounts 20%?
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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by benfoldsrock » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:31 am

I thought lee summit store is long gone. Any other sets left?

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by wkunert » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:48 am

Got a HP Knight Bus for around $24 with tax at the Folsom CA store since there's the additional 15% for Borders plus members. They had several more, but little else. Tons of CMF series 4, but I think the sign said $2.79 and no additional discounts. Nice.

They don't actually care about scanning the BR card, so they might just take your word for it.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by dho7622u » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:01 pm

I was at the Providence Place Borders today. 6-8 Atlantis Brickmaster "books",1 pirate Brickmaster, 5 USB sticks, a couple brick Alarm Clocks, CD players, 2 Woody's round ups.

Empty box of series 4 CMF. All Architecture and other sets gone.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by bryceejones » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:04 pm

benfoldsrock wrote:I thought lee summit store is long gone. Any other sets left?

Very few pretty wiped out from Friday to Monday. I think the most common set left was the rise of the sphinx. Maybe 5 of those.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by GuaranteedUnity » Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:19 am

Now 50%...

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by wkunert » Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:20 pm

GuaranteedUnity wrote:Now 50%...
Which means whatever's left is about the same price it was on Monday for Borders Rewards members, if the extra 15% deal is over now.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by GuaranteedUnity » Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:01 am

Yep. Seems to be the trend -- some bonus sale Monday-Wednesday, and then the norm on Thursday.

But weren't all stores supposed to close before September?

Still tons of merchandise at my local, but next to no Lego as of this past Sunday, and I don't expect that to have drastically changed (although I did notice they were getting new shipments of Best Lock and Mega Bloks).

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by atmail35 » Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:24 pm

GuaranteedUnity wrote:Still tons of merchandise at my local, but next to no Lego as of this past Sunday, and I don't expect that to have drastically changed (although I did notice they were getting new shipments of Best Lock and Mega Bloks).
Does your store have a ton of junk besides the Best Lock/Mega Bloks?...ours had blankets, PERFUME, tote bags, coffee mugs, and other crap that Borders never sold in the past. The sales person said the liquidator was bringing in more random stock. I think the liquidator is using the location and draw of the Borders sale to get rid of all sorts of miscellaneous stuff.

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by GuaranteedUnity » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:19 pm

Yes, tons of junk that I wouldn't ordinarily have expected at a Borders (I mean, c'mon... microwavable, perfumed teddy bears. Really? REALLY?!)

On the LEGO front, all that's left at mine is a bunch of Minotauruses, Ninjago spinners, and some SW Visual Dictionaries. I imagine they won't last until the next price drop (assuming the stores even stay open that long...)

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by lukeskywalker » Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:42 pm

The westlake borders had 3 duplu pooh sets. The only other bricks they had were knock-offs

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by Zeya » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:32 pm

So is Borders gone yet? Any sweet deals happen in the past week (doubt it)?

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Re: Borders to liquidate entire inventory

Post by GuaranteedUnity » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:04 pm

Liquidation discount is now 60%, so if you can actually find LEGO at your store, it should qualify as a pretty sweet deal (Hogwarts Castle would be a mere $60 :eek:).

Shame my store is long cleared out of everything but clone brands.

I think the stores are into their final two weeks, but there was also news last week of some East coast stores getting a reprieve thanks to a buy out by Books-A-Million.

I would have much preferred a B&N, but...

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