American Girl - Girl of the Year

[Sandy321]

wonder if they sold out so it takes it out of the account? someone said to put in cart, then sign in to account, then try checking out -

I havent gotten it to work

 

[HHMcG]

My DD has shown little interest in dolls so we have always stuck with the 'knock off' brands. I always thought AG was super $ and never on sale. But this deal has me interested.

From those of you in the know, this is a fantastic deal, isn't it???


Oh and it shows up in my cart all the way thru checkout though I haven't completed the order yet. So it could still have a hitch.
Oh and only 2 of the deals appear to still be available. I was really interested in the $68 deal.

 

[rramsr]

I am interested in the $68.00 deal also but it kept saying I had it in my cart and when I went to checkout my cart was empty, now it is saying the deal is unavailable . Oh well. I had gotten dd one of the my generation sets from Target so that will have to due

 

[JanaDee]

My DD has shown little interest in dolls so we have always stuck with the 'knock off' brands. I always thought AG was super $ and never on sale. But this deal has me interested.

From those of you in the know, this is a fantastic deal, isn't it???


Oh and it shows up in my cart all the way thru checkout though I haven't completed the order yet. So it could still have a hitch.
Oh and only 2 of the deals appear to still be available. I was really interested in the $68 deal.

AG dolls are normally $120 (or has it gone up to $125)? Anyway, if it is priced at $68, yes, that is a great deal.

 

[bas71873]

This must mean Isabelle wasn't a great seller. These discounts are REALLY good. Too bad we already have her (DD is a dancer and we got her right after her release).

I think AG really needs to shake it up and come up with something really different for these GOTY dolls. The last few years and just been "meh" IMO.

 

[JanaDee]

This must mean Isabelle wasn't a great seller. These discounts are REALLY good. Too bad we already have her (DD is a dancer and we got her right after her release).

I think AG really needs to shake it up and come up with something really different for these GOTY dolls. The last few years and just been "meh" IMO.

I was thinking Isabelle must have been a flop if they have that much inventory left with Christmas coming up!

 

[Ginny Favers]

Ugh, my daughter wanted her for Christmas and everyone told me not to wait, so I bought her awhile ago. Now I am wondering if I can buy the deal and then return the other one. Poo. A case of the early bird getting pooped on.

 

[eyeheartgoofy]

Ugh, my daughter wanted her for Christmas and everyone told me not to wait, so I bought her awhile ago. Now I am wondering if I can buy the deal and then return the other one. Poo. A case of the early bird getting pooped on.

Don't feel too bad - this is unheard of for a GOTY. Any other year and that advice would have been spot on! Usually people who wait too long for GOTY stuff wind up paying through the nose in the resale market.

 

[ktlm]

Waiting would have been a huge gamble. The fact all this stock is left over and a big deal has occurred is pretty much unprecedented with GOTY. I think one of two things has happened this year:

1. Isabelle in general was not a big seller and did not do well; or
2. They are so used to the GOTY dolls selling out early that they upped their stock of the merchandise this year and have far more than usual.

DD has been getting the GOTY dolls since 2010. She also gets a lot of their furniture, accessories etc. She gets the previous years for her birthday in February, some from DH and I and the rest from other family members. This is the first year that I have every seen pretty much everything still available this late. I have NEVER seen this type of deal on the GOTY so that tells me either she was a rotten seller, or they have far more stock than they have ever had in the past. Usually the doll and its stuff are going at premium prices on EBAY before Christmas. I have been tempted more than once to sell the GOTY stuff I had put away for DD because of the high EBAY prices, but she would not have been happy with me. This year, DD did not really show an interest in Isabelle for most of the year- as it came down to the end of the year she decided she did want her (I think more for the fact that she won't be available after this year than that she really actually wants her).

In my experience, we have had to get things by mid-October or risk a big sell out. Lanie, DD's first GOTY doll, had a trailer. It was all I could do to keep myself from selling that thing on EBAY because it went out of stock and towards the end of November it started selling for $1000 to $1,500 on EBAY. I restrained myself, and 4 years later, that is one of the items that DD still plays with quite a bit. It is probably her favorite. Kanani had a snow cone stand. I had bought it in September, and we had a trip to a town with an American Girl doll store in mid-October and I was looking at it and the clerk came up to me and told me if there was any chance I wanted it that I should get it right then because they were already out in the warehouse, and were pulling from store stock to fill orders, that other stores were already out and were calling to pull from their store for people that wanted them, and that they only had 3 left in their store and then they would not be able to get any others once those were gone.


I'm not sure why Isabelle does not seem to have much appeal. DD is 8 now, so I attributed her lack of interest to just being about aged out of them (which is funny because the age on them is 8 and up- but most of the girls I know are into them from about 3 to 7, and then not so much. DD doesn't play with them nearly as much as she used to). DD likes dance and fashion design, and a lot of kids we know do also, so I would have thought that Isabelle would be pretty popular. I think maybe it is that she is too similar to the average kid and doesn't have anything adventurous or different about her?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

What's the code please?

Nevermind, found it on retailmenot.

I am sorry of have forgotten to post it originally.

 

[Coonhound]

My wife used to collect AG. She says the whole girl of the year thing is overkill. She says they started with one doll and a couple of accessories, but nowadays the girl of the year has a full collection and accessories and even furniture.
She says it's too much and forget it. Lol.
If I were the parent of a girl (I am the grandpa of a little girl but she's too little for these dolls yet) if she were older I'd sway her in the direction of the historical characters. The historical characters are more educational and have book series that teach girls about the past. I think not enough girls go for the historical dolls nowadays, and according to my wife, they are the heart of the company...at least they used to be

 

[danygirl]

Live AG store but honestly the dolls and their stories were better when pleasant company made them.

If I had a daughter who just wanted ANY AG doll I would jump on this