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Subject: 
Re: bulk ordering is (not) here! (was - Re: bulk ordering is her e! )
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:54:02 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
On a side note, those prices look relatively cheap.  Has anyone bothered to
calculate what the brick/price ratio is yet?  Does it even compare to bulk
buying entire sets and splitting them into piece lots?

First question:
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=644 which introduces
http://home.xnet.com/~catena/ld_select.shtml

Second question: I haven't run the comparison, but someone in the thread
resulting from Brad's recent post did, and found that the bulk sets were about
AU$0.016 per stud in Australia, and US$0.011 per stud in America, IIRC. Also,
several people have stated that their prices from splitting up bulk were
cheaper on everything but light grey bricks.



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  Re: bulk ordering is (not) here! (was - Re: bulk ordering is her e! )
 
MY thoughts on the whole thing are that TLG just needed to add extra to cover S&H charges, and make it possible to order via S@H USA, or through their web page, for Australia and countries in a similar fix. How they handle things like import duties, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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