ewetwo Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Snake45 said: Both Michael's and AC Moore have 50% off on one item coupons in today's Sunday paper, good all week. AC Moore also has a 60% off coupon on one item, good today only (10/21). Both stores honor the other's coupons. These coupons are probably available online. Haven't been in Michael's for a while now, but AC Moore has the price of "standard" Revell kits jacked up to $37.99. They make even Hobby Lobby's Full Metal Retail look cheap by comparison (usually $29.99). My Hobby Lobby has started pricing above $30 now. Too bad they don't honor the other's coupon also. AC Moore is going to price themselves out of the model market. I asked why can't we view them on line and the employee said "because they are through a 3rd vendor"? Amy my Micheals has about three kits. The same ones that have been there for months.
Tom Geiger Posted October 26, 2018 Posted October 26, 2018 On 10/21/2018 at 4:40 PM, ewetwo said: My Hobby Lobby has started pricing above $30 now. Too bad they don't honor the other's coupon also. Hobby Lobby has their 40% off coupon right on their website. It's always there. Bookmark it on your phone. All you need to do is show them your phone. If I go in the store and I don't see anything I want, I'll buy something small like a can of Testors flat black or dull cote. And yes I even use the coupon on that.
tom Posted October 26, 2018 Posted October 26, 2018 When I read the thread title, I always think "my sympathies".
Casey Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 I walked down the model kits aisle at one of my local Michael's stores and was surprised to see a few kit marked down to a new, lower regular price. The Revell '84 Hurst/Olds Cutlass and '69 Cmaro Z/28-RS were both priced at $18. They had a minimal selection of twenty or so automotive kits, but I saw the Revell Bronco, '68 Hemi Dart, '66 Mustang GT350H and '32 Ford 3-window, and the MPC Dodge pickup.
Oldcarfan27 Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 Last time I checked Michael's only had "20% off entire purchase" coupons.
ewetwo Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 I've been getting emails from Micheals with a 40% off coupon all week. I'll have to see if they have the MPC pickup at my local Micheals.
Tom Geiger Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 I checked my local Michael’s last week... models are in the “Children’s Crafts” section and it’s shrunk down to nothing. Their Testors paint rack is half empty, and for some odd reason is a locked case. I remember spending a half hour trying to get someone to open the case. Finally an employee showed up, obviously annoyed to have to help me. I picked out two cans of paint and she wouldn’t let me touch them! She brought to front of store and handed off to cashier like I was going to steal them! I wrote off the store at that point!
Oldcarfan27 Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said: I remember spending a half hour trying to get someone to open the case. Finally an employee showed up, obviously annoyed to have to help me. I picked out two cans of paint and she wouldn’t let me touch them! She brought to front of store and handed off to cashier like I was going to steal them! I wrote off the store at that point! A lot of stores have to do that with their paint. And yes, they do have a problem with paint theft! Blame the taggers for that - not the store.
Rodent Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 45 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said: A lot of stores have to do that with their paint. And yes, they do have a problem with paint theft! Blame the taggers for that - not the store. Around here at least, I think they have more issues with people randomly spraying the paint on their shelves and such. The HLs here do the same thing which is why I won't buy any of their crummy assortment of Testors paint. Very little of it interests me anyway, and the local Michaels stores only carry the enamels that we have all used a hundred times when we were kids.
mikemodeler Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said: Last time I checked Michael's only had "20% off entire purchase" coupons. 20% off an $18 model is $3.60, so for about $16 you could walk out with a model, not bad. And if the Michael's store will take the HL 40% off, you're talking about a kit for $12!
Pierre_tec Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 did someone notice that this is a 2 years old revival thread!! wow
Oldcarfan27 Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Pierre_tec said: did someone notice that this is a 2 years old revival thread!! wow Blame Casey. If it's good enough for him, then it's good enough for us.
BlackSheep214 Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 On 9/14/2018 at 3:34 PM, shoopdog said: My local Michaels also downsized the model section from hardly any to even less recently. Yup. Even my local Michael's model kit is dismal. Not worth a trip there anymore. Heck, even their model paint selection is pathetic at best.
Joe Handley Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 On 12/11/2020 at 8:11 PM, Casey said: Different Michael's store, different kits. That looks a lot like the Michael’s stores here, pre pandemic, haven’t been in any of them......probably at all in 2020 either.
Tom Geiger Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 Last time I checked my local Michael’s it had that much shelf space, with half the kits! Heck I have more kits on my unfinished project shelves over my workbench! And the fact they call them “Children’s Crafts”. I don’t know anything current, but last I read Michael’s was bankrupt and circling the bowl. So bad that someone in their distribution center said they were moving goods by hand because they couldn’t afford to replace dead batteries in the fork lifts!
Joe Handley Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 I’ll be honest Tom, before I scrapped it nearly a year ago, I had a better selection of kits stashed in my Jeep than Michael’s and HL around here.....
Casey Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 43 minutes ago, Joe Handley said: That looks a lot like the Michael’s stores here, pre pandemic, haven’t been in any of them......probably at all in 2020 either. They keep getting new kits in. Saw the Dodge D-series pickup and Coca-Cola Ford Van, there, too. When I was a kid starting out, I shopped at place which didn't have every available model for purchase, and I seemed to have pulled through just fine. While we are spoiled to have eBay and the internet at out fingertips, having a smaller selection of kits to chose from at a retail location doesn't doom the hobby.
Tom Geiger Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Casey said: When I was a kid starting out, I shopped at place which didn't have every available model for purchase, and I seemed to have pulled through just fine. Those were the days! Running around town to see what each of the many stores that sold models had on the shelf! And seeing models we never saw before, so exciting! We are too hobby smart today.. no more wonderful discoveries, we know it all! Kinda takes the fun out of it! Edited February 5, 2021 by Tom Geiger
Casey Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Tom Geiger said: Those were the days! Running around town to see what each of the many stores that sold models had on the shelf! And seeing models we never saw before, so exciting! We are too hobby smart today.. no more wonderful discoveries, we know it all! Kinda takes the fun out of it! Mostly, yes, but there are still places like that... Edited February 5, 2021 by Casey
Dragonhawk1066 Posted February 6, 2021 Posted February 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Casey said: Wow! I remember collecting those Golden Wheels way back when, lol. I had the Dodge Wanted Van as a teen almost 40 years ago, I screwed up those big decals pretty bad, lol!
mikemodeler Posted February 6, 2021 Posted February 6, 2021 Happy Hobby is still in business? Geez, that place looked like it was on it's way out 20 years ago when I last was in one, are they still on the west side of Milwaukee? They always jacked up the price of an OOP model the day before it was announced as being OOP!
Oldcarfan27 Posted February 6, 2021 Posted February 6, 2021 21 hours ago, Casey said: Mostly, yes, but there are still places like that... Other than the prices, this reminds me of when department, drug and even grocery stores used to have stock that looked like this.
Rodent Posted February 6, 2021 Posted February 6, 2021 Two words pop into my mind when I see this picture. $TIRE$ $BURN$
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