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(...) I was wondeing...how do LEGO work out their prices? By my calculation, 10152 is being sold at the following: $74.99 US is roughly $105 AUS £54.99 is roughly $140 Aus EURO 79,99 is roughly $136 AUS $144.95 AUS (About 30% higher outside North (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I have actually noticed that although new products may show up on NA S@H first, often they start shipping to Europe before NA, as was the case with the Maersk ship. Still doesn't explain the price discrepancies though. ROSCO (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) What I was actually referring to was more along the lines of 200x sets arriving in stores in the US in November 200x-1 while to the rest of the world it is a 200x release date. [Out of curiosity: 1) is it now officially a 200x-1 set as it was (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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<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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(...) 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, (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) And all this doesn't take into account other taxes Americans pay yearly. * personal property tax * vehicle tax * sin tax (cigs, alcohol, and other "non-necessary things) * gasoline tax (30-40 cents per gallon?) * Medicaire (not a tax) * Social (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd encourage this subthread to migrate away from the current groups and into off-topic.debate if it goes too much further into comparative analysis of countries... I XFUT there already. (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Builtin taxes: gasoline, other fuels, alcohol, cigarettes (at least). I think about 90% of gasoline price is various taxes. health security (in fact a tax) social security (in fact a tax) tax from immobilities (is it 'personal property tax'?) (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yup, the UK's pretty bad too - VAT at 17.5% on most goods (included in the price though), the fuel tax is incredibly high (about 86%) plus you have to pay road tax just to have your vehicle on the road. Alcohol and Tobacco taxes are high as (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I know of two theories: 1. The Whinging Australian(s) Theory One or more Australians whinge about the Lego company in Australia, the product availability in Australia or even the price in Australia. The Lego company does not like this (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Well, I still don't see why they shouldn't equalize the playing field...If they can afford to be selling the sets at $X in North America, then why don't they try and INCREASE sales by selling sets at this price EVERYWHERE. After all, Megabloks (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) You fogot the really important one... 3. The WMD theory If you don't give us what we want we'll accuse you of having WMD's and invade. After all, how else do you explain the colour of your mini-figs. Of course, this may not be correct either (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Oh, boy, don't I wish I had something to say about Lego's pricing! Mark (North American) P.S. I feel your pain, really, I do! :-) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, your list matches mine here in Germany, with two notable exceptions: We pay about EUR1.20 (US$1.44) per liter gasoline, of which EUR0.90 to 0.95 are taxes. With 4.55 liter being a gallon, and the Euro at about US$1.20 we pay roughly US$5 (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think Lego Australia should review there pricing policy, as competition here in Australia is growing with respect to brick sales. Lately, over the past 6 months I have noticed in Kmart and Big W stores the gradual reduction in the amount of (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Having flirted with the Dark Side on occasion, I would have to say that MB is never as good as Lego, but I have found its Pro-Builder sets to be acceptable and its Castle sets awful in terms of brick interconnecting. I also used to find their (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate "Christian Treczoks" <ct@braehler.com> wrote in message news:HyExHu.GGK@lugnet.com... (...) Actually there is a mistake. 1 gallon = 3.8 liters, not 4.55 liters. (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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An Imperial Gallon is 4.55L. (URL) Christian probably should have converted to US gal in this particular case. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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n_okla@hotmail.com (Neb Okla) wrote in <HyFsM8.vAx@lugnet.com>: (...) Actually, both are correct. 1 US gallon is 3.785 litres, 1 UK gallon is 4.545 litres. One more reason to go metric. (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now I know why 10 gallon hats are so small. ;) Scott A (Who thought {everything} was bigger in the USA) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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