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I just got off the phone with Consumer Services at Lego (1-800-835-4386) about the two parts errors in the 10001 Metroliner. (See (URL) ) When you call, you will be transfered from the sales reps to a Consumer Services rep. I mentioned that I had (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Modifications to Hagrid's Hut - A New Roof
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(...) I agree with Lawrence. I prefer the original roof. Anyway, it's not paper, it's a fairly durable plastic. On top of that it's printed, and looks a lot better on the model than anything you could do with current bricks. I can't say I'm a big (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Australian Shipping Update
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Jake, I am also one of these customers that was contacted. What is your advice in regard to our order that has been made already. The UPS shipping fellow told me I had to pay. Are lego sorting this on behalf of all the australian orders made so far? (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bulk 1x1 Bricks
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(...) I brashly set out to construct using 1x1 gray bricks as ornament... 160 of the little buggers later, I have 3 sides of a 4-sided building. And no more of the little buggers. Really I'm amazed that I was able to keep going this far. I've never (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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Hi All, I had a similar experience with the lego shop at home from an order placed on thursday. My order was 295 +90 shipping. The people at UNited Postal service have also asked me for $90. Apparently we pay 50 for the customs people? for opening (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) Thankyou for your prompt response! This is great news. Now I just have to figure out what to order first, my wishlist is much bigger than my budget at the moment :) Deidre drb@tasmail.com (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Australian Shipping Update
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(...) <snip> Thanks James, for copying this post over. It was a needful thing to do. (Due to the nature of the loc.au community and how many readers use the newsgroups, there are many folks that never would have seen this post were it confined to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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(...) You could well be right. I was basing my comments on a phone call I made to Customs just prior to the introduction of the GST. The person with whom I spoke told me that prior to GST, there would be sales tax payable on imported Lego but it was (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) =o| -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Australian Shipping Update
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes: To our Australian online customers, A customer in Australia was contacted by UPS concerning a delivery where she was asked to pay both Customs and GST before it could be delivered. This is a mistake! LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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| | Australian Shipping Update
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To our Australian online customers, A customer in Australia was contacted by UPS concerning a delivery where he was asked to pay both Customs and GST before it could be delivered. This is a mistake! LEGO Direct pays all Customs, GST and fees on (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) LEGO could do worse (at gathering marketing info) than watching BB scarcity, ne? Of course what is spendy at low availability may not be worth much in large quantity (who here needs 10,000 of these lamp posts?? Even I don't need THAT many) so (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) ummmm.. That would be the 'Scarce Parts on BB' Service Pack ? You forgot to mention the pitchforks. <lol> Ray (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) You might as well reveal it--no one from TLC reads lego.direct anyway. And if you're correct about that accessory pack, I'm sure there are plenty of people willing to offer you safe haven. 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) Of course, you'll still be able to get a dollar or so for the lampposts while other smaller elements from the pack only fetch a nickel or so. (...) They won't risk it because there is some speculation that sets using a primarily black and/or (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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(...) Actually I heard these might be available from an accessory pack soon, for around $0.20 USD each (if you calculate the price out per element) -- they will be packed with white straight and curved spindled fences, those belville style arched (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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(...) Not if the freight, customs & GST increase the prices by 50%. (...) Well, I checked out that page you posted the other day (URL) and is does seem to indicate duty is payable as it always was 8?( Also, this page (URL) customs duty is 5% of the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: dear lego, will you be issuing a s@h catalog for australia?
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(...) as far as I know. The S@H web site doesn't list everything that's available either. The only way to find out for sure if a specific item is available is to phone S@H and ask (and even then you have to make sure to get the regular phone reps, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: dear lego, will you be issuing a s@h catalog for australia?
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3BBFA850.703090....com.au... (...) The European catalogue does not show a full range of product. Far from it. The shop at home web site is the only difinitive source of what is on offer (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: dear lego, will you be issuing a s@h catalog for australia?
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(...) As we're being supplied from the European S@H, I imagine we'll get the same catalog. (...) You'll probably get one with each order. You may be able to request one via the web site, but they'd probably charge to mail it. May be worth ringing (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | dear lego, will you be issuing a s@h catalog for australia?
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Will lego shop @ home/lego direct be printing a shop at home catalog for australia? If so, when will the first one be available? Will it show the full range of product, like the US and european catalogs do? (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come!
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Hi All, Just back from a week away from any access to the net. I'm slowly reading through the 160 new messages that have been added this past week. Someone may have commented on this already. POSTAGE!!! Up to 25 AUD 50.00 AUD 25.01 - 125.00 60.00 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) BONZA!!! Mel (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H delivery -- only 1 charge for many parcels?
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(...) I actually like to order that way. I don't buy an item or two, I wait every three or four months to purchase a lot of items. But the nice thing about ordering "backordered" items is that it saves me money. The items that are not backordered (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Train Show Events Calendar
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(...) Ok Jake MichLTC info has been sent your way. Chris Leach MichLTC (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Train Show Events Calendar
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(Can someone please cross-post to .trains.org? Thanks!) To the Trainheads among us, We are working on adding an events calendar to the www.LEGO.com/trains site. This calendar will be a worldwide listing of events where Train Clubs are showing at an (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H delivery -- only 1 charge for many parcels?
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(...) receipts. (...) hope (...) Indeed, I am wondering if backordering might be a reason why delivery is so expensive, to cover the cost of multiple parcels if required. Obviously S@H must know how many deliveries are required for each order on (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H delivery -- only 1 charge for many parcels?
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(...) Kerry If the rules are the same as for S@H in Europe, last month (sick of waiting for S@H to come to Oz), I purchased some of the train sets and got them sent to my uncle's address in Holland. One of the items was backordered and they only (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | S@H delivery -- only 1 charge for many parcels?
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If I order several items through S@H and they are not all available for immediate dispatch, how many sets of shipping charges do I have to pay? Just one, or one for each parcel that results from the order? Kerry -- Kerry Raymond, Lady BUG Lugnet (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) Ya know, if they are.. don't complain, just take the prices and run! enjoy the lower prices.. in a way you guys deserve them for waiting so long.. now just remember... no more whining! :-)- (sticking out tongue!) Tamy (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 10019 Rebel Blockade Runner
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(...) Excellent! Thanks very much for the response. In case it doesn't get said enough, there are a lot of companies out there that could learn from how LEGO Direct is doing things! thanks, James (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 10019 Rebel Blockade Runner
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(...) James, Both the Rebel Blockade Runner (10019) and the Darth Maul Bust (10018) are now available for purchase (although they are backordered): (URL) Lukin Senior Web Developer LEGO Direct (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) X-posting this to loc.au (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: 10019 Rebel Blockade Runner
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(...) Thanks for adding this, and I hate to be a pest... but can it be given a price & a status so I can order it? I noticed it's priced for European region, but I still can't order it in North America. I've got a shopping cart sitting in the aisle (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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"Jarid Lukin" <jarid.lukin@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GKp4nL.1Jr@lugnet.com... (...) Jarid, I wish someone at Lego would answer the question I have asked a couple of times now (of Brad and Jake) If the Australian prices include GST, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) Australian GST is already included in the product price. You will only be charged the total displayed on your checkout receipt page. There are no additional charges that will incur. --Jarid Jarid Lukin Senior Web Developer LEGO Direct (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come!
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Benjamin Whytcross wrote in message ... (...) It's still in the Holiday S@H catalog that I got last week, too. I suppose that's more understandable since the print edition has a long lead time, but this problem was pointed out months and months ago. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come!
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"Benjamin Whytcross" <b_whytcross@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKoKvB.Mnv@lugnet.com... (...) I believe this reflects stock for the whole of Europe, not just for Australia. So you are now seeing a snapshot of current European stock levels, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come!
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(...) Well done :) as a minor cynic I am happy to see the arrival of this (though my LEGO budget won't be ;) ) However there are a couple of minor issues I'd appreciate enlightenment about: 1) If this service just went live a few hours ago, how are (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Ummm Shop@Home Australia... where are you? *sniff*
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(...) Thank you Brad for making LEGO Shop At Home available in Australia and New Zealand. I am concerned however at the high shipping costs and the fact that there is only one shipping option available. Is there an intention to offer less expensive (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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