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Re: Just bought the Football sets
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:53:01 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Anyway, just my 2 cents. [do I round up or down when the GST comes in?]
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>
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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