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Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-(
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lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:48:52 GMT
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could they be running a converter on their exiasting prices - which are well
documented as being different - untill they get everything straight ??

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James Stacey
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www.minifig.co.uk
#925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado

"Juergen Stuber" <stuber@loria.fr> wrote in message
news:87zo3uuzke.fsf@loria.fr...
"Wessel Burgers" <wessel_b@yahoo.com> writes:

To me this comes across as really strange. It is almost as though • someone at
LD is making up these prices at random.

I think it's probably decided on a per country basis,
taking into account local taxes, shipping costs and pricing habits
(.99 is much more common in Germany than France, for example).

Jürgen

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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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  Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-(
 
(...) That's probably what they did, which is a shame because they could have seized the opportunity to level the prices throughout the euro-zone. (...) Still that does not explain why a certain set has the same price in two countries while another (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.gr)

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(...) I think it's probably decided on a per country basis, taking into account local taxes, shipping costs and pricing habits (.99 is much more common in Germany than France, for example). Jürgen (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)

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