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Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition
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Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:00:52 GMT
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"Selçuk " wrote:
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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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > alex
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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 of a US wage, for the same carrier.
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". (2)
1 - that would be you, Sel.
2 - and let us face it, marking a set as "gift" when you mail it if the
recepient paid you for it is smuggling. (3)
3 - left to the reader as an exercise: would a libertarian consider
smuggling of an otherwise innocuous commidity to evade paying tax on it
(4) "wrong"? Followups to off-topic.debate please
4 - said tax assists a government in shielding local industries from the
effects of economic reality
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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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| (...) 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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