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Re: G'Day!
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Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:50:38 GMT
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Santosh Bhat wrote in message <38135ECC.F3C04196@student.unsw.edu.au>...
I've been reading rec.toys.lego


Excellent place.  Seems to have gotten a bit bogged down in buy and sell,
still, ther's a proverb about beggars and choosers.

Though the cost here in Australia has been my biggest gripe. Who knows GST
may improve things.

Buy from the US, new or second hand - works for me.  And the GST improving
things - that's very good.  I went though fourteen tissues before I could
stop laughing :-)

Richard
Still baldly going...
Speak to the Governor at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
PI[so,ig+++ pi++ is,ia-]++ AD++ NI+ TO---- S+ LS- A+ LM- YB66m :-)



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  Re: G'Day!
 
Well im no economist (thanky you oh great one who decides careers), but I was told that the Sales tax/import tax etc..on lego came to about 22%, but with a flat GST of about 10% then that would be a 12% saving. But even then its not cheap. I mean (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)

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  Re: G'Day!
 
Howdy, Apologies for the delay in seeing this message. I haven't really explored LUGnet since its inception. I've been reading rec.toys.lego for about three years now. In fact my vert first usage of the internet led to Matthew Bates' Lego Train (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)

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