Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Yeah that's true! Thanks

Yes, I agree...Definitely worth the travel...Even counting the gas and tax was around $160....I haven't seen it cheaper than about $500-550 with shipping of at LEAST $50 maybe?....Before now it would have cost $600 conservatively....ZR

haha and you can buy a whole lotta decorations with $600.

Originally Posted by ZombieRaider

It pays to call ahead.....I saw the thread around 8:30 last evening so I did a quick location search and there are 2 stores almost the same exact distance apart in different directions so I called the one store and they didn't have any so I called the other and they said they had one sitting out....I asked if they could hold it for me til the next day since I lived so far away and they said they would....Left here at 8am so I'd get there when they opened at 9:30 this morning....They had it in the back room sitting on a flat cart and wheeled it right out and the one guy even helped me load it in the rain....Very helpful bunch at the store....So call ahead and maybe save a trip if they don't have one....Good Luck!....ZR

Same here. I called ahead and asked them to hold it for me too. They were so gracious to do it without any trouble at all. I just wish they would get more of the life size props since they really would sell soooooooooooo well since there would be a lot of haunters that would buy them.

Thorn Kill Creek, thanks for posting the big lots pics. I love when they get there halloween stuff and i'll have to continue watching mine. Do you remember how much the gargoyle at big lots cost?

Zombie Raider where abouts are you located? I am trying to track one down in NY.

Posted these in the Michaels section already.

zombie, i love your cemetary pictures. you did good my friend
thorn, in your second picture is a witch, is her skirt a black mesh with purple lights? how much if you remember was she?

Theres a countdown sign at homegoods?? Sounds really cool! I havent seen it here yet. I thin kthe biggest gargoyle with glow in the dark was at the most $40 but I think I saw it at $30, somewhere between that number anyway, hehe.

The Dracula Tombstone at homegoods looks awesome and LARGE! I wonder at the cost of it, we dont have it here, but I think with a new paintjob it could look like a showcase tombstone. The Ross pics look awesome, I called the 2 by me today and the rude girls I talked to mentioned only wooden wall plaques, I hate it when people call me "hun" or "sweetie", the tone I usually hear it in is in some condescending way and I wish they didnt hang up on me before I could have said something, grr.

Alot of these girls are way younger than me and say it on pretty much any outing or phone call I make to a store, and Im only 29! Sorry for the rant! Ill try to make my phonecalls because I REALLY want a scaretaker but the store clerks around here sure do make it daunting to even ask.

I called one Ross store and the girl who picked up seemed like a dispatch person so I asked to speak to someone in their decorative area and she said no one was on the floor and was about to hang up! Im like, helloooo! I have a question??! She said "what do you want" and sighed at me. I just dont understand how someone who is first contact for a store can feel its remotely OK to act this way? I usually keep this sort of interactions with store clerks to a minimum and dont shop or go out much, its seems pretty rampant here in Tampa bay.

This area is a repressed market, no one is really visiting us, I work in a hotel restaurant, I know the occupancies, no one is vacationing. People are lucky to even have a job around here, you would think the stores would have no problem then finding people who are quality and want to work, replacing bad apples. If you say anything to management here most are the same way and complaining usually just gets the manager annoyed with you and not the employee.

Originally Posted by kittyvibe

Theres a countdown sign at homegoods?? Sounds really cool! I havent seen it here yet. I thin kthe biggest gargoyle with glow in the dark was at the most $40 but I think I saw it at $30, somewhere between that number anyway, hehe.

The Dracula Tombstone at homegoods looks awesome and LARGE! I wonder at the cost of it, we dont have it here, but I think with a new paintjob it could look like a showcase tombstone. The Ross pics look awesome, I called the 2 by me today and the rude girls I talked to mentioned only wooden wall plaques, I hate it when people call me "hun" or "sweetie", the tone I usually hear it in is in some condescending way and I wish they didnt hang up on me before I could have said something, grr.

Alot of these girls are way younger than me and say it on pretty much any outing or phone call I make to a store, and Im only 29! Sorry for the rant! Ill try to make my phonecalls because I REALLY want a scaretaker but the store clerks around here sure do make it daunting to even ask.

I called one Ross store and the girl who picked up seemed like a dispatch person so I asked to speak to someone in their decorative area and she said no one was on the floor and was about to hang up! Im like, helloooo! I have a question??! She said "what do you want" and sighed at me. I just dont understand how someone who is first contact for a store can feel its remotely OK to act this way? I usually keep this sort of interactions with store clerks to a minimum and dont shop or go out much, its seems pretty rampant here in Tampa bay.

This area is a repressed market, no one is really visiting us, I work in a hotel restaurant, I know the occupancies, no one is vacationing. People are lucky to even have a job around here, you would think the stores would have no problem then finding people who are quality and want to work, replacing bad apples. If you say anything to management here most are the same way and complaining usually just gets the manager annoyed with you and not the employee.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME CALL THEM lol I WILL MAKE THEM THINK THEY WILL SIGH AT ME.....