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Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:21:15 GMT
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SGORE@SUPERONLINEihatespam.COM
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Alex Wetmore wrote:
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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 http://www.npr.org this afternoon.
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> I didn't hear all of it, but they were mentioning that Lego wanted to expand
> into the Asian market, but analysts didn't know if this would work too well
> because Lego knockoffs are available there for less money.
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> alex
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 of a US wage, for the same carrier.
Selçuk
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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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| 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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