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Re: Disturbing News on the Lego front (in Bundy anyway!)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:56:40 GMT
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Thought they usually wanted more than 10% of everything? ;-)
Although, I must admit that their prices on cement boots was unbeatable.
;-)
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
Peter White <aztekium@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:FwwA85.LnA@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > Ahhh...It's not the GST's fault...It's target putting up the price so • that
> > when the GST kicks in and they drop the prices, then it looks like • they're
> > not profiteering. Unfortunately, putting the price up like that is just
> > their way of increasing income while 'dropping' prices. I'd suggest • ACCC'ing
> > them, as this appears to be profiteering by stealth. [At the very least,
> > this should wake them up to the fact that people do look at their
> > pricing...And it may result in LA's pricing to them being uncovered.]
>
> But let's blame the GST, the wart of a PM who thought the whole thing up,
> and the greedy high-income voters who voted for it.
> I have heard it quoted that in four years, tax bracket creep plus • inflation,
> will have eaten any tax-cut benefits in the short term.
> That's if higher interest rates haven't gouged it already.
> Apparently if your fined by a local council, guess what, you pay GST on • the
> infringement notice ! (so trim that lawn, chain that dog and get that • cubby
> house approved).
> If Lego prices do come down, expect me first in line for lip-smacking
> PM Wart's Sunday school approved footwear.
>
> pete.w (who thought getting 10% of everything was the Mafia's modus • operandi)
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> > > From: Jamie Obrien [mailto:jamien@interworx.com.au]
> > > It/s back on the shelves, at slighly higher prices, though i'm not
> > > told it's the GST's fault, i think Target are just going back to their
> > > old ways of Highest Price in Town!
> > >
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| (...) But let's blame the GST, the wart of a PM who thought the whole thing up, and the greedy high-income voters who voted for it. I have heard it quoted that in four years, tax bracket creep plus inflation, will have eaten any tax-cut benefits in (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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