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Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 27 May 2004 17:01:01 GMT
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John Guerquin wrote:
I've gone through some of this research last year, when I discovered that the
prices in Poland and Germany were quite high compared to north american prices.

Add Czech Republic to the list.

I wrote a small script to recompute the czech MSRP (price / 1.19 / 27 )
= 19% is the tax, 27 Kc per 1 US dollar.

Then I divided czech price by US MSRP price and got:
1.00-1.20x = Orient Expedition, Belvile, World City, Bionicle, Inventor,
Sports, Technic, Island Extreme, Discovery, Racers
1.20-1.50x = Jack Stone, Duplo, Designer, SW, Spiderman, Harry Potter,
Spybotics
1.50-2.00x on basic tubs, Duplo

6-8x lower buying power here than on the West. I can't understand them.
Their usual point is they can't make it cheaper here because German
hordes ;) would buy it all here and their businessmen would die starving
(not that I care).

BTW: Shelves are full of Megablocks here.
--
Jindroush <jindroush@nospam.seznam.nospam.cz>
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  Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
 
<snip> (...) Benjamin, I believe that the answer is (at least) twofold: 1. LEGO's way of setting prices for different markets is very complex (I believe that Jake has stated this before), and the price only partially depends on what the given market (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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