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Re: Be careful buying Lego at Harris Scarfe (GST dual pricing)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:24:39 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> Hi all,
>
> A warning to anyone buying Lego from Harris Scarfe. In the Hobart stores
> some of the Lego have dual price tags showing the current and post GST
> price. On some sets the price goes UP with the GST whereas I'm almost
> 100% certain all Lego should go down (currently has 22% wholesale tax
> which gets replaced with 10% GST on retail price). Mosts sets did go
> down. (Out of interest a ~$45 set seems to drop around $3)
I don't want to appear a rule book waver, but this is totally illegal.
Legislation was especially passed (to cloud the price changes) so that
retailers could not have dual price tickets. Call in the hounds !
> I took the increased price sets up to the counter in the Hobart City
> store but the sales droid obviously didn't have a clue what I was
> talking about, I suspect he put them straight back on the shelf after
> I left. Must go and check next week.
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> Is anyone aware of any reason for some Lego to INCREASE in price or is
> this a case for the ACCC? Maybe it was an innocent mistake to start with
> (got the tags the wrong way around?) but if they don't try to fix it
> then surely that's profiteering from the GST.
With larger sets some stores don't have a proportional margin. So while
smaller sets may have a 40% margin, larger sets may only have 20-30%, since
once you get over $100 RRP the potential buyer pool gets smaller. This may
be the reason for some up, some down.
Get them anyway for the dual price tags !
pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>
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