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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 22:27:57 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter White [mailto:aztekium@optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:25 AM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Be careful buying Lego at Harris Scarfe (GST
> dual pricing)
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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 !
Oops...Someone hasn't been keeping up with the news...From June 1 retailers
were allowed to use dual pricing. It was only if dual pricing was
implemented before this date that it was a no-no.
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
Any chance of getting the two prices [before and after] and set number?
> 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 !
Nope...The stores all paid 22% WST. This means that NO lego set is to go up
in price [neither is any other toy/sporting item] Maybe we need to do a
crackdown on overpricing stores next month :)
If the prices aren't about 8-12% lower with GST, then the store is
definitely profiteering. I think the ACCC should be set on this store.
> pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
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