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Re: Lego Roadshow
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 1 May 2000 05:40:51 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Jonathan Wilson writes:
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> "Whytcross, Benjamin" wrote:
> > That's the strange thing...They continually blame Denmark and shipping for
> > everything from low stock to delayed arrival. You'd think they'd have
> > learn't by now how long it takes to get items here, and if they can't get
> > that right, then the least they could do is put a manufacturing plant in
> > somewhere in the Australia/asia area. Then, maybe we'd be able to get some
> > exclusive sets, and a good range at a reasonable price, not to mention sets
> > released at a comperable time to the rest of the world.
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> Yeah, a lego china or something, wages are low, therefore that drives the cost
> down (we would hope)
Unfortunately the quality may suffer as well. As well they may be worried
about piracy and their precious moulds and China's bad reputation for
copyright infringement.
Wasn't Korea a possible site for manufacturing and is there a plant in Brazil
or somewhere in South America
pete.w
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| (...) It's even simpler than that. The cost of setting up, supplying and staffing a factory anywhere in the Australasian region would nowhere near be offset the costs saved in transport. And let's face, it the average john doesn't even know what (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Yeah, a lego china or something, wages are low, therefore that drives the cost down (we would hope) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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