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Re: Can someone explain Australian Lego Pricing to me?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:22:10 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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> "Melody Brown" <black666beast@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKp70r.76I@lugnet.com...
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> > The prices on the site are (depending on which store) quite similar. But
> > obviously in many cases to get a better deal you wait and spend up large
> > with the 20% off deals. But also, these items are not actually here
> > physically in Australia so maybe that is why they can make it seem cheaper
> > in a sense, it will be us the consumer who will pay the shipping and not
> > Lego Australia. The product here in Australia is obviously cheaper since it
> > already includes all the overheads into the price (GST and all).
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> > > The prices for Lego on shop at home for Australia are significantly cheaper >than the UK, and the USA, and I was • trying
> > > to understand the reason. (seeing as Lego wont tell me!)
> >
> > Maybe... maybe not... read above!
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> If you take out 17.5%VAT out of UK prices, and 10% GST out of Australian prices, then the Australian prices on shop @
> home generally work out 20-35% cheaper than UK prices.
> Seeing as the vast majority of Lego's overheads are the same in both cases (all incured in Denmark) and shipping is paid
> by the customer, it is difficult to understand why they should be so much cheaper.
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> I guess Lego will say that some of it is down to currency fluctuation. Australia has gone down against the Euro, whilst
> the UK has gone up. So we are probably comparing 2 prices at the extreme of currency fluctuation compared to the Euro,
> which Danish prices are pegged to.
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> So not only do you stuff us at Cricket, you get cheaper much Lego too.
Bwahahaha I love it! Actually... first time for everything. I'll tell you
what though... If you came to Australia, you'd realise how much stuff in all
departments that we do miss out on, there are lots of different movies,
CD's, DVD's, Computer Games, and other games from Playstation and Nintendo
etc etc, that we do not get, and it's not just one or two titles, it's
sometimes a whole range.
And that's just that side of things. It's extremely annoying when you see
something advertised here and then find out that we will never get it here.
That is a common situation too :(. So if these prices stay this way for
Lego S@H Australia, then about time! It does and will mean though that for
most of us, that we will have to wait and group our purchases together due
to high postage costs.
> regards
> Lawrence
Mel (do I sense that for once, we havn't been as stiffed as we have in the
past, that now when we finally get a break, the rest of the world say's
"Hey!, Not Fair"?) :P... fresh rain smells the best
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| "Melody Brown" <black666beast@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKp70r.76I@lugnet.com... (...) trying (...) If you take out 17.5%VAT out of UK prices, and 10% GST out of Australian prices, then the Australian prices on shop @ home generally work (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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