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Re: LEGO.new is coming
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:22:36 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Mario Ferrari writes:
Scott A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
In lugnet.dear-lego, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.dear-lego, Mario Ferrari writes:
Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
Marco Beri <marcob@equalis.it> wrote:
As you can see in http://news.lugnet.com/loc/ in Italy (4216 • messages,
second just to UK and US) there is a great Lego community and I just • wonder
(I'm sure like everyone here) why you chose UK, Ireland, Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Austria but not
Italy.

My guess is that it's nothing against you folks, but rather that • they've
already got a better infrastructure built up in those countries.

I'm sure they've nothing against us, but still don't see the point. • Shipping
from any EU country to any other EU country requires no special care.
There're no more customs, no custom forms, fees are unified... I really
don't see why if they can ship to Germany, Belgium or Austria they can't
ship to Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and all the other countries now • off
the list.
That's definitely annoying.

Is it legal to sell to an Italian resident if you're not speaking Italian • at
the time? I dunno. But maybe that's what is holding them back, they don't • want
to lay on Italian speakers (and spanish, portugese, french greek, etc.)

Just an idea, I really don't know the answer.

I'm not very competent on the matter, but I suppose that if Amazon can Lego
could as well (Amzon just to mention one among thousands of English-only
websites that sell worldwide).
But I see they might be concerned about the language, and don't want to make
a service available until it is completely localized, like they do with
sets.

Italians, don't feel snubbed, feel proud that the French were left out • too.
:-)

Trouble shared is trouble halved :-) Just hope we start *before* them :-)))

I assumed those left out were due to exsiting distribution agreements in • those
countries.

You might be right, though from what I know Lego Italia supplies directly
the toy shops through its own network of agents.

Yes but the contract with the shops/agents/etc may preclude LEGO from selling
sets direct - this is pure speculation on my part. As for France, I know that
LEGO operates on a "sale or return" basis there (DYA, BB etc buy the returns I
expect) - so for LEGO selling direct in France may just increase their returns
(?).

I would expect toy shops (from small one up to TRU) will be unhappy that LEGO
are selling direct to you and I... and cutting them out of the deal.

Scott A




Ciao
Mario



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