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Re: 3033 "Bulk" Tub at K-Mart
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 19:38:52 GMT
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"Kev...: )" <MrBunny01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:G9L822.EDp@lugnet.com...
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> $69.99 AUD..... why is it so expensive..... why is Lego sooo expensive • here....
> To give you a rough comparison to say Canada.... when I was there last
> October, I picked up one of the blue tubs for $25.00 Cdn.... so that made • it
> around $31.oo AUD... but it wasnt till I got back here, that I found out
> from a friend back over there that that was the expensive price...!!! on
> average, they're around $20.00 Cnd.... and on special they are $18.00
> cnd.... that makes them around $22.00 AUD.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought it was because the Canadian tubs were made in Enfield and shipped
a few hundred km by truck, as opposed to our tubs which are made in Europe,
travel a thousand km by truck, then several thousand by container ship, then
a few hundred km by truck again...
You want cheap Lego, then convince TLC to make a factory on this
continent... :-\
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Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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| (...) SNIP.... $69.99 AUD..... why is it so expensive..... why is Lego sooo expensive here.... To give you a rough comparison to say Canada.... when I was there last October, I picked up one of the blue tubs for $25.00 Cdn.... so that made it around (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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