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Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 21 Aug 1999 04:27:35 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
> Yeah, well, 50% off is no great deal FOR YOU. Me, I live in an area that • stuff
> almost NEVER goes on sale past 20%, because it sells out before it can hit any
> lower IF they had any in stock to begin with.
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> I got my first deep discount sets in AGES last week by driving 40 miles to a • KB
> Toy Liquidator for the 8456s, and it made me pretty happy.
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> Out of all the 5571s I bought, want to guess how many came from my STATE, let
> alone my area? I'll save you the trouble - NONE. They weren't discounting
> them past $70 in CA, and none of the stores I called had any in stock anyways.
> I had been happy with the 2 I bought for $80 2 months before locally, but • after
> what I got them for by ordering them from PA, VA, MD, and others, it wasn't
> such a great deal anymore.
I live in the same area as Tom S, and he's right. We don't get good deals
here. It's not whining, just a fact.
My first half-off Lego set discount I picked up about 400 miles from my home.
I didn't go out of my way to get it, I was on vacation and got lucky. My
second lucky purchase is because the store had a beat up set that had managed
somehow to be excluded from the store's active database, and so they let me
have it for cheap, not an everyday affair to be sure.
BTW, everyone tries to rip off Californians, including other Californians.
Need anyone mention the evil oil companies? Okay, I will. The price of gas in
the states is averages somewhere $1.15 - $1.25 a gallon but here in the SF Bay
Area is around $1.80 per gallon of 89 octane, cheap by European standards
though.
-Tom McD.
when replying, celebrate International Spamcake Day, Dec 26.
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| Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) stuff (...) any (...) Yeah, well you guys don't know how lucky you are - in Australia the prices suck even MORE because it's all imported. I've seen sets at DYA shopping that even WITH shipping were around (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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| (...) Of course you don't have to shovel snow in the winter, or sweat to death in blistering heat and humidity in the summer. California costs more in my opinion because it's a nicer place to live. If it cost the same as everywhere else there'd be a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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| (...) It's nothing to do with ripping people off, it's the overall local prices. IIRC The Bay Area has the *highest* cost of living in the entire 48 contiguous states. Right now, gas prices are sucking in MI--they're hanging around $1.25/gal for 87 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Yeah, well, 50% off is no great deal FOR YOU. Me, I live in an area that stuff almost NEVER goes on sale past 20%, because it sells out before it can hit any lower IF they had any in stock to begin with. I got my first deep discount sets in AGES (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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