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Re: LEGO Factory price list - Trains
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 22 May 2006 14:56:41 GMT
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First of all Train Wheels are available again, It looks like $1.24 per set.
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Doug Foreman wrote:
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The prices are just plain odd and high. A pair of switches is 27.99, but one
is 22.96? AND you need to buy in lots of ten? Straight track is 12.99 for a
box of eight, but 19.99 for a lot of ten? I could buy one motor for 24.99
under your old system, but now need to buy 10 of them for 349.90? Geez TLC,
do you think that you might be pricing yourself out of the market/causing
your new product to fail?
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First you don’t have to buy in lots of 10, that is just how Mark set it up.
Second the prices are extravagent and I have not been able to determine why
using my contacts as an Ambassador.
This is why we are asking folks to NOT include motors in the SNVT Build-a-Train
contest. We will tell folks how to buy them separately using S@H.
If I ever do get an answer to the price differances I will forward them on.
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Compare this to an ordinary train set from a hobby seller:
http://www.digitalgiftstore.com/6-31990.html
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Personally I don’t see that as a valid comparison. LEGO Trains are
significantly different. When you buy a Lionel train what you see is what you
get. When you buy a LEGO Train you are buying an infinite number of possible
trains. Part of what you pay for with LEGO is the flexibility and the “System”.
If those are things you arn’t looking for then the Lionel Train is probably
better for you. A small premium to get the extra qualities a LEGO Train brings
is perfectly OK to me. My problem is having 2 semi-connected LEGO systems
selling the same part for significantly different prices.
-Eric
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| --SNIP-- (...) I have a thought... what if these are the new prices for 9V. Shipping through factory would be a good way for Lego to sell 9V trains (there are some potential problems with confusion between systems but it could be made to work) but (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory price list - Trains
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| (...) The prices are just plain odd and high. A pair of switches is 27.99, but one is 22.96? AND you need to buy in lots of ten? Straight track is 12.99 for a box of eight, but 19.99 for a lot of ten? I could buy one motor for 24.99 under your old (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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