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Re: aust. customs and duty, lego & GST
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 06:03:22 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Callaway writes:
<SNIP>>
> Not necessarily. I've priced Antwerp to Australia (with a layover in
> Singapore) and it's quite respectable.
God bless the silk road, I can see it now, a caravan of camels carrying sandy
wind blown boxes of Lego on their humps. Oh no wait, someone invented a flying
machine a hundred years ago.
This yet again surprises me, becaause A) Surely there are more frequent
connections to America and B) the distance to America is Shorter.
<SNIP>
> Hmmm... maybe I knew that someone may think that, so I increased it to give an
> artificially high P/O margin, in which case you'd overestimate our M/U, giving
> you a false sense of security. Or perhaps, thinking you might twig to this, I
> dropped it, so you'd drop it again under the mistaken assumption that I'd
> actually increased it, so you'd underestimate our M/U, sending you into a
> pricing panic. Ohhhhhh, mindgames in the construction industry! The conspiracy
> of it all!!!!
Peter you can keep the espionage filled double crossing world of Estimating
all too yourself now. I'm safely in a position undertaking research into new
technologies here, very removed from the Tendering department now. But still
in uni Student mode nonetheless.
<SNIP>
> I'm sure you can, and that was one of my last points. The figure I worked up
> has a US retail profit margin AND an Australian retail profit margin, plus
> factored in overheads for both retailers. US$29.99 is MSRP (US equivalent of
> RRP, IIRC - arggg... too many acronyms). Wholesale would make my worked up
> price even cheaper!
Yeah tell me about acronyms. And the im sure the acronym FAQ isn't actually
helping make it simpler.
<SNIP>
> > BTW..what is set 7140?
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> Star Wars X-Wing Fighter. C'mon Santosh, you know my LEGO taste by now, you
> should have twigged that it was *something* Star Wars ;-)
Actually I had figured Star Wars but I wanted it checked. Actually I did rip
my X-wing apart and back into its box on sunday, so that compunds my error.
For me when I see 7XXX I immediately think of 12V trains. 7740 being the
centrepiece of my 12V train collection.
> Bucket loads!!! I'm still thinking of moving to Canada where there are reports
> of LEGO pieces washing up on the beaches from the container ship which sunk a
> couple of years ago. Some maths guru calculated that pieces will be washing up
> for the next 20 years or so.
Thats not that same ship that had a container full of yellow bathtub ducks is
it?
quack quack
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| I must apolgise to every one for my over priced postage. i was guessing on the frieght charges when ordering from amazon. I unfortunately don't have contacts in the states, nor can afford to travel to the US. its great that some of you can. Aaron (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Not necessarily. I've priced Antwerp to Australia (with a layover in Singapore) and it's quite respectable. (...) Hmmm... maybe I knew that someone may think that, so I increased it to give an artificially high P/O margin, in which case you'd (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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