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Re: Sanity Check, Please. (was: Old sets being sold in new guise?)
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
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Date:
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Mon, 21 May 2001 06:12:43 GMT
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~Too funny... lol :)~
> "Center of the Universe,
Ha, egocentric Americans! (although 'I' have no qualms with the ubiquitous
U.S. demand and buying power, cause we in Canada always get their nifty
stuff :) )
In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
> My two bricks? Some guy in germany was cleaning out a warehouse somewhere
> and finds some dozens of boxes of a couple of particular older sets that
> didn't sell well (compared to other sets in those years). Atch! he says what
> will we do with them? Brighter manager says, oh! let's re-box them so they
> look like new sets and send them out to stores again.
So true, I'm happy there’s another realist out there who sees this fiasco as
a possible short-term, one-time stunt that may never actualize!!!!!!!!
> So out they come, then some bright spark on the German forum finds out
> ('cause he's got an inside contact or something) then someone else makes a
> deal to sell them through the forum and everyone is happy.
>
> But... Some complete goose posts to Lugnet and before you can say "old
> warehoused stock" theories of lost cities of lego filled entirely with
> silver bricks begin to circulate. Then the complaints start that it's not
> the "good" sets, it's not <insert theme or train voltage here> and (horror
> of horrible horrors!!!) they're not available in the United "Center of the
> Universe, everyone else are barbarians" States of America.
--==Richard==--
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