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LEGO at $60 a barrel
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Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:44:26 GMT
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The Southern California LEGO Train Club makes it’s custom table system using
white vinyl coated hardboard for the surfaces and 1.9 inch diameter black ABS
pipe for the legs. That’s ABS as in the same stuff that LEGO is made of. When we
first started making tables 4 years ago, a 10 foot length of pipe cost under
$3.00. Last winter, that price jumped to over $4.00. This week, the price is
$5.79, almost 2x in a year. ABS pipe at large volume sellers such as Home Depot
is probably very much driven by raw material cost (oil!). Clearly the raw
material component of LEGO sets is a small fraction of the selling price, but
ultimately oil at $60 a barrel will have some impact.
(Just something else to worry about this week.)
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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| (...) This is a legitimate concern. Yanick Fournier (URL) posted> a helpful heads-up a little while back on this very issue (albeit for a competitor brand) and I posted my observations on a price increase of some 15% at my local KMart. I don't track (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jul-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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