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Re: LEGO as an international company...
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:55:34 GMT
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who cares?

if you want the set you will get today or next week.  patience grasshopper.

-tk

"Benjamin Whytcross" <b_whytcross@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:H2CtAB.9t3@lugnet.com...
> Just a couple of minor gripes about TLG's "international" approach...
> 
> 1) Having a look on their shop site, I went to see when if the Harry • Potter
> E2 sets were available, only to get a pop-up saying they would be • available
> this coming friday...It could be just me, but I thought this was the • Friday
> they are refering to, and it is nearly half gone. Could it be that they
> really mean "coming this Friday, US time?"
> 
> 2) On the back of an in-box Explore catalogue [ number 417.8246, • copy-right
> 2002. ] They give a list of telephone numbers for different countries,
> presumably so that people in these countries can contact their local LEGO
> company...strangely enough, I doubt dialling the number given for most
> countries would work if you dialled them as printed...EXCEPT for Canada • and
> the US. [even Denmark would have trouble with them.]
> 
> An example of some of the numbers:
> Australia: 0064 61 294 28 9666
> Canada [English]: 1-800-822-4534
> Denmark: 0045 79 50 69 79
> New Zealand: 0064 92 62 20 98
> UK Limited: 0044 (0) 8457 080 070
> US: 1-800-822-4534
> 
> So what I'd like to know is if the LEGO company ever plans on treating • those
> people who don't live in the US/Canada in an equal way to those who do • live
> there, or if they have decided that they are going to treat one group of
> customers as a privileged area, and expect everyone else to accept this.
> 
> [as a further example, on LEGO's shop site, have a look at the "special
> collections" or "pens" areas in a country, and then compare to the US
> offering...]
> 
> Benjamin Whytcross



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Just a couple of minor gripes about TLG's "international" approach... 1) Having a look on their shop site, I went to see when if the Harry Potter E2 sets were available, only to get a pop-up saying they would be available this coming friday...It (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)  

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