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Re: Blue 32 x 32 Baseplate Discontinued... noooooooooo!
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 1 Feb 2004 03:04:53 GMT
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Kevin Salm wrote:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Michael Harrod wrote:
> >
> >
> > It lends itself to a bigger problem with S@H: they continue to display things
> > that are sold out (discontinued)...while it's noble of them to let us know
> > that there will be a restock, far too often they leave things up which they
> > know have been discontinued....it's not unlike the infamous color
> > change...they're ****ing with us, leading us on.
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> I think this happens because the item is NOT sold out all over the world.
> Remember that by setting your shipping location, you get different Shop At Home
> websites--North America, Europe, Australia, etc. They are NOT actually different
> websites, however, just different text and data behind them.
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> Okay, that exlanation is a bit muddy.
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> What I mean to say is, just because Blue baseplates are sold out in USA shop at
> Home warehouse does not mean they are sold out in other fullfillment center
> warehouses in other parts of the world. So the item actually exists somewhere
> and the listing on the website remains so they can sell the stock that is left.
> Make sense?
No, because...
> Of course, the programming for the website could be better to disallow such
> things to occur....
...it does. There are many Europe-only sets that will not show up when you choose
the US as your country - you'll get Not Available.
So if they are pretty much permanently out of stock of something for the US, they
CAN blank it from displaying.
Example:
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=7044 - available in the US
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=2585 - USED TO BE available in the US.
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| (...) I think this happens because the item is NOT sold out all over the world. Remember that by setting your shipping location, you get different Shop At Home websites--North America, Europe, Australia, etc. They are NOT actually different (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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