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Hi team, Sorry for the provocative subject header, but you're all here now. This is what I have gleaned from LEGO Australia. Looks like we'll need Kerry Packer's job to afford it all. I've used the current Aussie Peso exchange rate of USD$0.614 AUD (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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Oh! Isn't our country wonderful for LEGO! Does anyone happen to know if the price of LEGO will go down or up with GST here? God forbid that it should rise to even more ridiculous prices. Cheers Tim (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) here? (...) I think one of the James's found out that it was actually going to reduce because of the (supposed) abolition of the 22% sales tax (net decrease of 14.2%). Here's hoping!!! Pete Callaway P.S. Sorry if it wasn't one of the James's. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Blearggg! Sorry about the formatting. It looked good while I was compiling it. Pete Callaway (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) That sounds like something I suggested but unfortunatly I have no hard evidence. The conversation to lego where this was mentioned happened some time ago and they may have changed their mind. Best kids brand by 2005 hah! not here... (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) fiddling with the numbers shows the system sets as being 1.5 to 2 times more expensive (best 7115, 7134 worst 7104) but the technic sets are consitently only 1.33 times. There is no way shipping is so expensive as to justify 1.5 to 2 times (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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Peter Callaway wrote (...) Thanks for all this Peter, its really good work. In terms of a sensible response to this news, I must remind myself that this is Lugnet so I'm not allowed to swear. That being the case, and despite a considerably larger (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Peter Callaway wrote in message ... (...) Packer's (...) be (...) Whoa, that's bad... IIRC, the Aussie dollar has about the same exchange as the Canadian dollar, yes? Wow! If you were to buy Lego from North , you'd still be paying less with (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) My thoughts exactly. Even though all profits eventually get counted towards TLC as a whole, I'm sure each regional business unit is under instruction to record their own profits. I can't see LEGO Australia doing so with this kind of price (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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