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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Richie Dulin writes:
> > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > Brad Justus: (quoted with permission)
> > >
> > > "It is intended that the entire Shop at Home experience will be available in
> > > Australia by the end of the 4th quarter of 2001..."
> > >
> > > Paraphrased by Lar for dramatic effect: "One of the big holdups is your
> > > government who requires BOTH electronic AND paper import documents for the
> > > same import shipment. Complain to them."
> >
> > The last time I checked, we had a very large balance of payments deficit...
> > clearly, lots of companies - including a large Danish manufacturer of ABS
> > bricks - are already managing to cope with our import requirements.
> >
> > Blame the government? Of all the things that the government may be blamed
> > for, I think this one tends toward the irrelevant.
> >
> > I suspect they're just a long way down the list of excuses.
>
> I in turn suspect you haven't thought things through.
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> Unless they run a fulfilment center, they have to do that doc for each and
> every order.
But surely if they warehouse some stuff in Australia (assumption!!), the
import orders would be fairly large?
ROSCO
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| (...) Reread my sentence just above your assumption. Carefully. Think about what the difference between retail fulfillment and a warehouse to support stores is. Unless they are doing retail fulfillment IN australia, each and every order needs to get (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Working from memory here, but I believe Brad stated that determining which fulfilment center to ship from (European or US) was one of the decisions that had to be made, so I wouldn't suspect that they plan to warehouse anything in Australia. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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