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In lugnet.loc.il, Yaron Dori writes:
> In lugnet.loc.il, David Arnon writes:
> > [1] I'm not sure but I think it's Kaufman something.
>
> Yes, you were write, it was Kaufman until somewhere in the late 90's (I
> believe 97/98) but afterward (for some unknown peculiar reason) the import
> that Kaufman did stopped (some salesman from a little toy store told me) and
> that's why all the "small" store stopped bringing them. AFAIK Toys'r'us (and
> the 1,2 other stores) that do sales LEGO in Israel actually do the import by
> themselves.
>
> With a talk I had with Michael (from ozBricks Australia) I found out that
> the shops have to order at least 10,000 LEGO sets of each set they want to
> sale which is bound to be unprofitable a round here for most of the sets.
>
> My two agurot to the issue
>
> Yaron "Webrain" Dori
That's interesting, so in fact the importer actually did a good job (at least
better than the situation now). because it's obvious the situation has been
deteriorating over the past few years. Not so much in the price point of view
(that was always high) but more when it comes to poor selection and brand
dilution.
If there's no one with the rights to import Lego, then what's the problem? It
couldn't be something technical since even when you order from Amazon, that
ship to Israel, it says they can't ship _Lego_ to Israel.
The 10,000 number seems much too high to me. I don't think even the largest
chains can be sure they'll sell that amount of anything but the smallest sets
(again, Bionicles come to mind. Ahh.). With any number close to that things
like RIS or UCS sets have no chance whatsoever to get to Israel.
Thanks for the info,
- David
p.s. If there's no importer, who paid for the recent Bionicle commercials on
Arutz 2 ?
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