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    australia and new zealand, your moment has come! Brad Justus
   I am pleased to announce that LEGO Shop At Home service will be available to Australia and New Zealand beginning Thursday, October 4 (yes, October 4 of this year, for the cynics among you...). You will be able to order essentially the entire LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct) !! 
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Adam Murtha
     (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Jason King
      Oh well there goes my NO LEGO BUYING resolution, Now what will i buy first... -- Jason King LugNet #665 Adam Murtha <adammurtha@home.com> wrote in message news:GKE4vB.9Mz@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) of (...) (as (...) (trains, (...) sculptures (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Aaron Coghill
     "best thing since sliced bread." Aaron "Adam Murtha" <adammurtha@home.com> wrote in message news:GKE4vB.9Mz@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) of (...) (as (...) (trains, (...) sculptures (...) for (...) a (...) before (...) Australia (...) costs (...) to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.au)  
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Richie Dulin
     (...) As one of the cynics amongst us, I say "Well done!" (...) Cool! (...) Not so cool, but undertstandable. (...) And don't forget overcoming our government beaurocracy! (...) Indeed Cheers Richie Dulin Who is getting ready to take back every (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
   
        (canceled) —Martin Scragg
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Jonathan Wilson
     (...) Cool, so this means we will get everything thats available online in europe currently. (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Martin Scragg
     (...) WooHoo! I knew I was being optimistic this week for a reason :-) (...) Excellent! Mmmmm, Metroliners, bulk bricks!!! (...) Cool, can you then arrange for it to be delivered before it is shipped as well? (...) For most of the stuff not (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Richard Parsons
     (...) Congratulations guys, and thank you. I look forward to placing my order for camels on 4 October :-) In terms of things to do to promote beyond chatting here, among other things, links on local websites would seem to be a good idea. Text links (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Allan Bedford
     (...) Good news for those folks, I think this will be well received. (...) Here's my suggestion. The advice is free and the implementation is without cost. Post this information on LEGO.com. I was just there and there's no mention of this news on (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Ross Crawford
     (...) Never doubted in the slightest that you'd come through 8?) Well done, guys (& gals) ROSCO (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
      "Brad Justus" <legodirect@lego.com> wrote in message news:GKE2or.4nn@lugnet.com... (...) That price seems very cheap. The current price of the Sopwith Camel is USD 49.99. Whereas AUD 76.95 converts to just USD 37.81. And NZD 89.95 is just USD (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Michael Golaszewski
     (...) Ummm, ok, I think that price is just right.... :) That's the first complaint that the items are too cheap... (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
      "Michael Golaszewski" <michaelg@ozbricks.com> wrote in message news:GKIxn1.2F8@lugnet.com... (...) LEGO.com, (...) No. It's a complaint they are too expensive everywhere else :-) Like if it is going to be AUD 76.95 in Australia, how come it is the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Peter Callaway
      (...) Depends on what exchange rate they used to set the prices with initially. They can't very well update it daily with the current plummet of the Aussie Peso, but your point is well taken. I must say at the moment it is actually cheaper to buy (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
     
          Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Mike Walsh
        "Peter Callaway" <peter.callaway@stgeorgecl.com> wrote in message news:GKJ527.Gs9@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) equivalent of AUD 103.80 here in the UK? (...) Aussie (...) actually (...) call (...) prices (...) Brad alluded to the fact (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
     
          Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
       "Peter Callaway" <peter.callaway@stgeorgecl.com> wrote in message news:GKJ527.Gs9@lugnet.com... (...) My understanding was that if you suspected that the currency exchange rates might worsen, and you want to edge against currency fluctuations, then (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Richie Dulin
     (...) It's just compensation for the amount on time we've been without S@H in Australia ;-) . Cheers Richie Dulin (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Melody Brown
      (...) Mwahahahaha! The Kookaburra's could have the last laugh :P j/k - About time I say! They prob will smack us in the cheek with postage and claim the difference that way... or it's an introductory price and not the actual 'everyday' price... (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz)
     
          Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
       "Melody Brown" <black666beast@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKKp29.zv@lugnet.com... (...) Will you ship them back to the UK for us? They did say they would sub the shipping costs for a while, but not set prices. Postage and packaging is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz)
     
          Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Melody Brown
      (...) why not... (...) I guess we will see what they come up with... but I'll let you know Thursday... Tomorrow :)))...))) Mel (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz)
    
         Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Mark Harrison
     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)
   
        Sopwith Camel pricing correction Jake McKee
     (...) Slight correction on the pricing of the NZD. The Sopwith Camel is actually NZD 99.95, rather than NZD 89.95. Sorry for any confusion. (By the way, if someone could cross-post this for me, I would appreciate it) Jake --- Jake McKee Sr. Producer (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: Sopwith Camel pricing correction —Lawrence Wilkes
      "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GKJKKo.A7s@lugnet.com... (...) Hey Jake, do you have any response to the question I asked earlier (not to you directly) about the relative US and Australian prices of the Sopwith? To (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
      "Brad Justus" <legodirect@lego.com> wrote in message news:GKE2or.4nn@lugnet.com... (...) Is that Thursday, October 4th US East Coast time, or Denmark time, or ??? Because it is already the 4th in Australia and it isn't on-line yet :-) lawrence (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Benjamin Whytcross
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Kevin Wilson
     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)
   
        Re: australia and new zealand, your moment has come! —Lawrence Wilkes
    "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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