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Re: New Knight's Kingdom Prices
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:11:39 GMT
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Hi,
Purple Dave wrote:
> My source on sets being packaged in the Czech Republic was the 2002 LEGO Brand
> Guide, which was part of a 4-book set given out at NY Toy Fair. It states that
> "LEGO elements are molded and decorated in Denmark and Switzerland, while they
> are packaged into finished goods in the United States, Denmark, Switzerland,
> South Korea, and the Czech Republic." It unfortunately doesn't go into any
> greater detail, so I couldn't be sure how much packaging happened there. My
> source on parts being produced there now was
> <http://news.lugnet.com/color/?n=137 this post>, which again doesn't go into any
> great detail about what parts are actually made there. This appears to be a
> very recent change. How current is your information?
This is _current_ info.
Re: packing - I was told only Dacta packing occurs here, not the regular
sets.
> > Re: prices. Everybody thinks LEGO is insanely expensive, and you don't
> > take the rest of world into your figures. For the very same AT-AT you'll
> > pay $99 + sales tax. I'll pay $146 + 19% of sales tax.
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> Sales tax is regulated by local governments, so that has nothing to do with MSRP
> differences.
That's why I compared US MSRP of $99 (you pay sales tax at cash
register, right?) and Czech price without the tax (we have tax
incorporated in the 'shelf' price, making it kind of invisible).
$47 is the difference. We pay about 50% more on Star Wars. We pay 100%
more on basic brick tubs. (plus 19% of tax, but that goes to the @#$%^!
socialistic goverment).
> I'd be
> very surprised if The LEGO Company makes $47 more on an AT-AT sold in a Czech
> shop than on one sold in a US shop. Yes, they probably charge a higher price to
> Czech store chains than to US store chains, but most of that $47 is probably
> going directly to the store where you bought it.
I've asked one czech dealer about that. I can't be 100% sure she told me
the truth, but the AT-AT price should be composed this way:
4890 Kc is the MSRP.
19% is sales tax: 929 Kc
net price is then 3961 Kc.
Dealers get about 30%:
1188 Kc for dealer.
2773 Kc for LEGO.
1 USD ~ 28 Kc. That's about 99 USD going to LEGO.
I think somebody from Germany may tell us more, I think that 1000Steine
guys have their own shop, so they should know better.
> In the case of S@H, yes, TLC gets more money for a Czech sale than for a
> US sale, but they probably aren't legally allowed to sell to Czech customers at
> US pricing, and they know for a fact that they won't sell to US customers at
> Czech pricing.
It's easier. S@H doesn't ship to Czech Republic and last time I've
asked, they are not going to in near future. That bugs me, we're part of
EU now. Jake's argument, that's only a month (we joined on 1st May 2004)
is a *******, because everybody knew that for years and lots of
companies already 'noted' that.
> What I'd be most interested in finding out is why the Knight's Bus package lists
> the Czech Republic as a location where parts are manufactured if they aren't
> actually making parts there. Does applying paint deco count for purposes of
> listing where the components were made?
I positively know that the Knight Bus parts were printed here. So that's
the reason, probably.
--
Jindroush <jindroush@nospam.seznam.nospam.cz>
http://www.kostky.org
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