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Re: SOCCER sets update.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:52:00 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > From: Paul Baulch [mailto:paul@vic.bigpond.net.au] • Peter White wrote in message ...
> > >
> > > As to availability, I saw 3409 at Target Penrith for $54.95.
> >
> > Does anybody actually know why so many stores sell this set
> > for double the
> > price (or the other ones half)? What is the "official" RRP?
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> Official RRP at the start of the year was $119.95 [$115.95? I don't have the
> list here] Since then Someone posted a message about LA getting in the rest
> of the sets and 'Subsidising' the range. The expected new price was $60, and
> it's good to see that they are selling for less than that.
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> > $55 is a rockin' price for such a big Lego set. Stuff Star
> > Wars, I agree
> > with Santosh, the soccer sets are the best thing to happen to
> > Lego in Oz
> > since, well, ever.
> >
> > > They had just this set.
> > > Toyworld Camden also had most of the soccer sets today also.
> >
> > Sounds like the Camden Toyworld rules! have you ever asked
> > them why their
> > prices are so much lower than their competitors?
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> I'd guess it's a good sales rep...pity they're not all like that.
Nothing to do with the sales rep, this is an older style Toy store,
Toyworlds run their own shows, Camden is really a rural area next to a
satellite suburb of Sydney, Campbelltown, where Big W's abound in this
lower socio-economic area. Either compete or fold, pity the other Toyworlds
don't try the same. Unless your Harris Scarfe Campbelltown, where the 7161 is
still $150 (10% above retail).
pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>
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| (...) Official RRP at the start of the year was $119.95 [$115.95? I don't have the list here] Since then Someone posted a message about LA getting in the rest of the sets and 'Subsidising' the range. The expected new price was $60, and it's good to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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