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(...) Your browser cache might need flushing or something. I haven't visited www.lego.com for a while, but did so just now. I see 2 x 8's for sale with a picture of a 2 x 8, but no 2 x 6 picture or mention. The look is new for me, too. I don't have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Chris Gray" <cg@ami-cg.GraySage....ton.AB.CA> wrote in message news:m3zolabf70.fsf@...n.AB.CA... (...) I now have the new look too. Great improvement!! -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Does it mean I do not have it if I don't see any changes? i.e. is it that different from last week? Jude I deleted all temporary files with IE 5 and still I cannot see any changes. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G0wqw7.LEM@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) changes. An hour ago I couldn't see the new siite but now I can. I like it a lot better, and the ability to buy on-line is obviously in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G0wqw7.LEM@lugnet.com... (...) Do not have what? I see the site has been updated, I find it funny that you can't see it....esp. after you deleted all your temp files. Don't know what to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I've deleted the cache, temp files, etc. The site still looks the same to me. Is there something I should be looking for that is different from the old site. (URL) still has a splash screen that says "The race begins September 2000" I figured the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Can you look at that again? (URL) - very first row, far right - green 2x8 BRICK pictured, yet the description under it (and on the left frame) is 2xSIX. (Black Item #3463, etc, etc) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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on bulkpage1.asp ?? I don't see any mentionof 2x6's. I see C. 2 x 8 BRICK 25 piece bag $8.99 with a picture of a green 2x8 brick. Ryan -- reply to: rjschave at home dot com (URL) Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Could it be that Ryan and I are on the @home network or something? Perhaps the servers are pointing to the old website. (I am guessing now, I am not sure how this type of thing even works) My question is is the home page the same as last week? (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hey Tim, that's not funny at all! I can't see the new site on my PC either. However, I have a second PC here as well which runs excactly with the same Software. WIN NT and MIE 5.0. The two PCs are basically the same, but one of them shows me the new (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Are you using the same internet provider for both? Is it the same account you are using? I just got into work, cleared the cache on my Win 95 with Netscape 4.7 and low and behold... the old site. <stamping feet> I WANNA SEE THE SITE (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I just fired up my laptop and connected to the net via my old and slow dial up account (Netcom, er I mean Mindspring, er I mean Earthlink). The site looks the same as when I access it via my @home account which is to say that nothing looks new. Ryan (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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There's your problem - you still see the old site. The NEW site has: 2x6 Brick Black Item #3463 Light Grey Item #3464 White Item #3465 Dark Green Item #3466 Red Item #3467 Pictured above them is a 2xEIGHT brick. No prices listed on the new site yet. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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The prices are there, but it's just a kinda round about way of getting to them. You need to click check availability, then you get to choose where you are located, then you get a price list. I think instead of "check availability" they should have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) However, I (...) WIN (...) me (...) hard, (...) dissapointing, (...) PC. (...) makes (...) I'm even more confused... yesterday evening I saw the new site; now I only get errors when I try to go to the new site. What's going on?! (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Yes, you get a list - the FULL list - it would be more useful if you got the price for the part you were checking on, rather than having to remember the part # then look it up on the full list. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) <snip> Do they have *new* bulk elements? Jude Blind to the new changes thus far... (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Absolutely - I suspect we would all concur. Perhaps that is going to be "fixed" when the on-line ordering becomes available. Julie Krenz wrote: (...) Another good point. What really bother's me though is this: " In placing your order, you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Tom, I also see this error. Interestingly enough, though, it's not the same error as on the original bulk page (old Lego site) -- the first time, it said 2x8 brick, but pictured a 2x10, if I remember correctly. Jeff (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hi Jude, No, the set of elements is the same, allowing for the error on the 2x8 brick. I suspect that your problem has to do with retrieving pages from a proxy or from a local DNS which still has the old address cached. Be patient and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Whenever you buy something internationally, and have it shipped to you, you pay applicable duties and taxes - which in the case of toys, is 0% duty and 7% tax. I'm not sure what you mean by the tax being 150% of what it should be - 7% is 7%, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) No, the GST applies to purchases made by Canadians. If you buy something in the US and bring it back in and pay customs duty on it, you get to pay GST too. If you subscribe to a US magazine, the cost includes GST. If you mail order something (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I can see said the blindman!!! Finally :-) Jude (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Sorry, no, I can't. When I access it now, it tells me that I have to accept a cookie, which I refuse to do. I guess I won't be visiting the Lego site anymore, until they fix this bug. Some of the folks having trouble getting the new stuff may (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It's a bug that it doesn't work with some browsers even though they do accept cookies. And it's bad design for the site to not work at all without them. But it's not a bug. Cookies which are sent back to the original server only are a good (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Calling it a bug was just me being annoyed. I'm a relatively old geezer who has been programming computers for 25+ years. I miss the days when you could understand pretty much everything your computer was doing, along with how and why. My (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As Tom mentioned, that's the old site. However, I think I like the old site just a bit more. Seems that if you want to sell a product, you should provide all the info you can about the product in the most convenient manner possible. Not listing a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm not surprised at what IS, I'm saying that it SHOULD not be occuring. It is double-dipping. The GST was to take the place of the manufaturer's tax. Duty is to "protect" domestic companies from foreign competition. (With NAFTA, there (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I don't know when this was corrected, but it is a two by six today, and I don't think anyone mentioned it previously. BEN (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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