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Re: Names of things.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:01:53 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
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> > > > [waiting for the re-release of 7124: flash speeder...or another reasonably
> > > > priced set with brown cap...the Brictorians need them :)
> > >
> > > I guess I am missing something here... This set came out in 2000, right?
> > > Presumably you bought lots of copies of it then, and more recently while it
> > > was still available, right? I saw it on sale as recently as 3 months ago
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> > Ah, but what *you* see on sale and what *we* see on sale are two
> > very different things!
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> "on sale" in this context means "available for sale in the stores" not
> "discounted heavily".
Which is the context I assumed in the post...
> The point here is, why ask for a 2000 set to be
> reissued? It was in stores not that long ago at all. It doesn't make any
> sense to me when there are many other sets that are a lot older.
Well on that point I probably agree, however I think Ben might've meant "show
up at retail somewhere again", as flash speeders have been pretty thin on the
ground here for a while.
ROSCO
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| (...) Yep, you got that one right...I haven't seen one in a store for several months...let alone seeing one on sale. [In fact, I think the last time I saw one was about Feb this year ! ] Either LA didn't order many in or there was a small production (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) "on sale" in this context means "available for sale in the stores" not "discounted heavily". The point here is, why ask for a 2000 set to be reissued? It was in stores not that long ago at all. It doesn't make any sense to me when there are (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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