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RE: Just bought the Football sets
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Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:41:32 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter White [mailto:aztekium@optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:31 AM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Just bought the Football sets
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> In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
> > These FOOTBALL sets are great! I bought one of just about • each set, and I
> > spent two hours playing around with how i could make the • seating tiered and
> > mutli-level.
> >
> > And the prices on them are fantastic too! So the potential • for making a
> > stadium are very plausible!!
> >
> > Just when confidence in Lego Australia was at a low, they
> show us some
> respite.
> > Good one LA.
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> Did you get these at Parramatta ?
> I was there on Monday and couldn't find anything :^(
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> I think it's time to stick it to the real problem.
> Our government/s State and Federal that tax everything that moves.
> Brad mentioned in his post about Customs and shipping being problems.
> There is really no reason for TLC to single out Australians
> or the British
> as a market to milk.
True, the government does tax highly...but if LA can get the soccer sets
[that we weren't going to be getting] into the country, and can sell them at
this price when they were originally going to be $115 or so, it begins to
look like it's not only the government contributing to the high prices
[although I'm willing to be corrected on this if someone from TLG/LA can
show me the figures regarding the price drop]. Also, if Australia is such a
small market for lego, and the US is such a large market, why couldn't TLG
add a small surcharge [10-50 cents] to the prices of sets in the US, and use
this to help lower the costs in Australia [or with a slightly higher markup,
the rest of the world]. This would assist lego in their aim to become the
top kids toy by 2005 [unless that is a US only aim] allow them to increase
sales, and get more people interested in lego..and the americans probably
wouldn't even notice the small price rise.
Anyway, just my 2 cents. [do I round up or down when the GST comes in?]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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| (...) But if each Lego subsidiary is treated separatedly, why should one subsidise the other. Next thing you will want a player draft for the footie ;^) At least Brad gave us a mention, I wasn't expecting one. pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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