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Re: Sticker Shock...Lego Direct?
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lugnet.lego
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Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:59:31 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Richard Marchetti writes:
> I had to call the Consumer Affairs people to replace some old black wheels as
> found in Technic set #8246 and old Blacktron I set #6941 (almost the same
> element except for minor details). I had recently purchased several of these
> from a fellow Lugnut and when I took the big tires off of the little wheels,
> the little wheels fell apart from stress and age -- these would be the bigger
> tires as found on Blacktron I set #6941, BTW. Point being: they charged me
> $0.40 USD an element which I was happy to pay. But, I think this may stand as
> a measure of what Lego Direct prices may be like for specialty parts (not
> common bricks and such, hopefully!)-- they will not be sold for $0.05 and
> $0.10 each as some people seem to believe even if they are sold in bulk. I
> guess this may present us with the problem of say Cypress Trees being $1 each -
> - I am not sure I can or want to buy 1000 of these in bulk at such a price.
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> Just (virtually) thinking out loud,
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> Richard
I just called Consumer Affairs to buy some parts that were missing from a couple
of open clearance sets that I just purchased (I should have known better). I
was quoted a price of $5.35 for a saddle, samurai knight fig, his armor &
katana, a barrel, and a spiky plant. I don't know...the samurai is pretty cool,
and he has good armor, but this seems a little bit high (not unreasonable, just
a little bit high.) For that matter, I can just go buy another Samurai
swordsman set and do without the barrel and plant from another set. Anyway, I
tend to agree that Lego Direct will not be as economical as we might hope.
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| I had to call the Consumer Affairs people to replace some old black wheels as found in Technic set #8246 and old Blacktron I set #6941 (almost the same element except for minor details). I had recently purchased several of these from a fellow Lugnut (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego)
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