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Re: hmmmm... What about us?
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:10:40 GMT
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Er-HEM!!!!!!
GRRRRRRRR!!!!!
What is up with you people and shop at home?!
In case you hadn't noticed, in many of my earlier posts (and this is the
reason I don't have wheels yet), I have clearly stated that I will NOT buy
from the S@H service, and many people will never buy off the internet! I am
a JFOL, and I believe that lego should be made retail more often! You
mentioned s@h many times in your post, and I have very definite opinions on s@h!
The ISD, RBR, UCS naboo starfighter, and many others should be brought to
retail stores.
BTW, how'd this thread end up talking about the vatican and swedish guard?
-Matt, very disturbed and still looking for wheels!
In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > the LEGO company favours the USA/Canada region over the rest of the world.
> > [and that they generally ignore Australia.]
> > [waiting for LEGO to treat all countries equally.]
>
> Countries vary in many ways, from:
>
> * Russia (largest area) to Vatican City (smallest)
> * Monaco (highest population density) to Western Sahara (lowest)
> * Luxembourg (highest GDP) to Sierra Leone (lowest)
> * Congo (highest inflation) to Nauru (lowest)
> * Angola (highest infant mortality) to Sweden (lowest)
> * Andorra (longest life expectancy) to Botswana (shortest)
>
> I don't see any good reason why TLC would treat all of these countries equally.
> Should there be a Legoland in the Vatican City? Should there be a Lego Shop in
> the Western Sahara? Should S@H ship to Sierra Leone or the Congo? Are there
> enough children in Angola and Botswana to buy Lego at all?
>
> Like most companies, TLC markets its products where it thinks it can do the
> best business. That is linked into a whole host of issues: population size,
> demographics, disposable income, transport costs, taxes, import restrictions,
> etc.
>
> TLC's preferential treatment of the USA illustrates this point nicely, given
> that the company is based in Denmark.
>
> As much as I, citizen and resident of Australia, would like the fullest range
> of Lego to be available to me at the cheapest cost, I am old/wise enough to
> understand how businesses work and why countries are not treated identically by
> them.
>
> As it happens, I think the situation for Australia has improved considerably
> w.r.t. Lego in the few short years since I came out of my Dark Age.
>
> The introduction of S@H to Australia just over a year ago has significantly
> increased our access to almost the entire breadth of the catalogue. While the
> initial express shipping cost was a bit daunting, we solved that problem with
> large group orders (in the great Aussie spirit of mateship). Now the shipping
> costs for S@H to Australia have been halved with the introduction of regular
> shipping a couple of months ago (so Lego did promise to do when S@H was
> introduced to Australia). And if you look at the Australian prices on S@H, they
> compare very favourably with other countries, indeed cheaper than many European
> countries. Look how many of us got the numbered Sante Fe Super Chiefs? If that
> set had come out a year earlier before we had S@H, most of us would not have
> obtained it. Many countries don't get S@H and many that do are paying a lot
> more than us.
>
> In the past few years, we have seen the Internet has spawn Lego.com, LUGnet,
> Ebay, Bricklink, and PayPal to make it easier for us to get information, new
> sets, old sets, and individual parts from all over the world and made it easy
> to pay for them as well.
>
> We saw the Soccer sets introduced in Australia at half the price of the USA.
> Thanks to this newsgroup, I've got some deeply discounted prices on many Lego
> sets from local retailers (look at Dino Island Research Station and the Alpine
> Express at Toyworld this year). And how cheaply did many of us get the Imperial
> Flagship and Red Beard Runner at KMart when they were loss-leaders? And unlike
> the USA, we are still awash with Big Blue Tubs, stacked horizontally and
> vertically at most KMarts! And Myer, KMart and Target have had 15-20% Lego
> sales on many occasions this year. Dick Smith is just about giving away Dark
> Side Developer kits at the moment.
>
> I've visited the USA many times, and I assure you that their streets were not
> paved with Lego. The average TRU in the USA that I have visited has less Lego
> on the shelf than ours do in Australia. I have never returned with suitcases
> full of Lego from the USA because it was just so cheap over there. Yes, we do
> hear about some great discounts at some USA stores at some times, but that
> doesn't mean that everyone in the USA gets to take advantage of it. Certainly
> my random sampling of stores in the USA has never turned up any amazing
> discounts. The Lego I have bought in the USA (pre-S@H) was entirely to obtain
> sets that weren't sold in Australia, none of them were jaw-droppingly cheap.
>
> I am tired of hearing how bad it is for Lego in Australia in this newsgroup. I
> actually think we have it quite good!
>
> If you want to complain about Lego, why not go to the Danish newsgroup and
> complain about the fact that they have to pay 2700 Kroner (AUD 654) for the
> Imperial Star Destroyer compared with AUD 500 for us. Even with shipping costs
> to Australia, it's cheaper to buy it here than in its homeland!
>
> Kerry
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