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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Pieniazek [mailto:lpieniazek@mercator.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:58 AM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com; lugnet.org.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: New Pricing??
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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, $14 Can [1]...Does this mean:
> > 1) World parity pricing where it matters :)
> > 2) Mickey Mouse isn't popular here, and the cheap price is • to get interest
> > 3) LA were forced to bring the sets in and want to be rid of • them as soon as
> > possible. [This would also explain the soccer sets :) ]
> > 4) Some other obscure reason
> >
> > It'd be interesting to find out which of the above is the reason :)
> >
> > [1] from a post in lugnet.general recently, complaining • about prices...It's
> > nice to know that the Seppo's don't mind others having to • pay top$, 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 :-) )
Well, I like to be able to keep Aussie slang alive. I actually prefer Aussie
slang to the Seppo stuff flooding our country...Anyway, being an Aussie
forum, I think we should be free to use any Aussie slang we like and to have
Seppo phrases excluded :-)
> 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 don't doubt this...But do your observations take into account the diffence
in $aus to $us, or are you working on a $1 Aus = $1 US conversion?
As to TLG...Up to july this year, LA was charging extremely high prices.
Since LD started talks with LA about selling in Aus, these prices have come
down [to the same as or lower than US prices in many cases: soccer, mickey,
Toolo2]. The problem with this is that it shows that the bosses of LA have
been enjoying the benefits of having a monopoly in this 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.
I wasn't actually referring to you in particular, but I was talking about
the way that your countrymen seem to expect that everything be arranged for
their benefit, and they don't seem to care about anyone else.
Anyway, as I stated above, it's more a problem with LA and their little
empire here that is soon to be threatened by LD....Anyone want to bet that:
1) LA is dropping their prices, as they are worried that LD will take all
their sales.
2) As the start-up date for LD in Aus gets closer, prices will drop a little
more.
3) The reason LD isn't in Aus yet is BECAUSE of LA...they wanted time to try
and get a bigger market by lowering prices, and they wanted to have this in
place for 12 months so that LD won't cause a sudden drop in LA's sales?
[Maybe this is why BradJ had to change from late this year to late next?]
> ++Lar
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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| Whytcross, Benjamin <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> wrote in message news:1D0812CAE3E7D21...ccess.com. au... [snip] (...) that: (...) To what company do you refer by the term "LA". I know of LCSA which stands for LEGO Customer Service Australia. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| (...) Didn't say you couldn't, just said I found it derogatory, that's all. Mostly I was just taking the p*ss out of you anyway. However, here's a thought experiment for you, one I don't know the answer to, and one I don't necessarily want to debate (...) (26 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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