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| Another bit of info...BigW has Mickeys fire truck at $12 or so, yet in the US it's $10US, and in Canada, $14 Can [1]...Does this mean: 1) World parity pricing where it matters :) 2) Mickey Mouse isn't popular here, and the cheap price is to get (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| (...) Serious Question? If not <ignore> else Rhyming slang American > Yankee > Yank > Septic Tank > Seppo Really quite easy, now you know. HTH James (who, if posting to someone who DID know, just had a Barry) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| (...) What are you saying exactly? I didn't quite follow it (I was partly steamed at the use of the rather derogatory rhyming slang term for Yanks... that wasn't nice :-) ). Everything I've seen so far is more expensive here than it is in the US. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| (...) Ah, Larry is a true capitalistic pig dog troll! :) ...of course, this is coming from someone who is proudly communist, so take it in accordance with your own worldview. (I'm communist in the Marxist sense, not in the real world sense, in the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) than (...) and (...) Very true. I'd like Lego to be cheaper, but not at the expense of public education, public health, and other socially useful stuff like that. Kerry (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| (...) Part of that probably has to do with the fact that shipping from Enfield, CT to Canada is cheap and fast. Shipping from Europe (Denmark and Switzerland) to Australia is both expensive and slow. The cost of shipping has obvious effects. The (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) -note, a fair number of the special parts for Can/US/South America are made in Denmark and Switzerland...have you ever thought how many of _any_ lego piece you could cram into a container??? Believe it or not, it would cost _less_ to ship a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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