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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> Another bit of info...BigW has Mickeys fire truck at $12 or so, yet in the
> US it's $10US, and in Canada, $14 Can [1]...Does this mean:
> 1) World parity pricing where it matters :)
> 2) Mickey Mouse isn't popular here, and the cheap price is to get interest
> 3) LA were forced to bring the sets in and want to be rid of them as soon as
> possible. [This would also explain the soccer sets :) ]
> 4) Some other obscure reason
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> It'd be interesting to find out which of the above is the reason :)
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> [1] from a post in lugnet.general recently, complaining about prices...It's
> nice to know that the Seppo's don't mind others having to pay top$, but if
> they have to pay a higher price they think everyone is against them [similar
> thing when the sets they want aren't available in the US...Castle sets with
> silver armor, etc.] <G,D&R>
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.
*everything*... As I've said before I think that has more to do with the
overall choices your society has made about levels of taxation and services
you want to have than it does with a TLC conspiracy to stick it to the "lucky
country".
I *do* mind "others having to pay top prices", I think it's always a shame
when a country has decided that other things are more important to them than
letting the free market set low prices efficiently. But it's your country and
you should be able to run it as you wish.
++Lar
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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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| 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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