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| | | Today's episode of Morning Edition had a story about Lego laying off folks during the business news part of the show. It should be available via RealAudio at (URL) this afternoon. I didn't hear all of it, but they were mentioning that Lego wanted to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) Maybe the way to go is pricing them considering the "purchasing power" of the individual countries. Software companies done that in turkey, and works well againist piracy. It's awful paying 10-20% more for the same lego set while earning 1/5 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) That probably won't happen, because if it did, a grey market would quickly spring up. I certainly would have no qualms about making a certain Turk (1) very rich if it meant I could get sets for far less than retail with a little "smuggling". (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) You could have been pretty right about that, considering I'm the only Turk here, but wrong about me. I'm not a "trader" type of man. I never wanted to face the hassle of the whole thing for an additional amount(1). I had some occasions during (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Hrmmm, while I admire your convictions on this subject, I have to admit that I am rather pleased that my toy habit is almost self-sufficient, given enough time. Well, maybe not almost, but I bet my sales and auctions have paid for at least (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Steven Vore
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| | | | (...) government (...) I won't call it snuggling if you won't... but the ladies might have a different opinion. As a U.S. citizin, I won't even get into the topic of government & snuggling :-) -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) Muhahahaa...This damned typos.:-D I prefer leaving my english spell checker off, since I also use Turkish, obviously much more than in my messages. I'd better not to..:-D Selçuk (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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