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| | | (...) I think it's probably decided on a per country basis, taking into account local taxes, shipping costs and pricing habits (.99 is much more common in Germany than France, for example). Jürgen (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —James Stacey
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| | | | | could they be running a converter on their exiasting prices - which are well documented as being different - untill they get everything straight ?? -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Wessel Burgers
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| | | | | | (...) That's probably what they did, which is a shame because they could have seized the opportunity to level the prices throughout the euro-zone. (...) Still that does not explain why a certain set has the same price in two countries while another (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.gr)
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| | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) According to a survey of the Euro in a recent Economist, one of the expected outcomes of Euro-isation is to make it easier to highlight price differences. Where the price differences are due to no reason at all, the expected outcome is that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GpFDv8.561@lugnet.com... (...) With LEGO's European wide e-commerce from Denmark there wont be any local price differences for VAT. However, they say that they must factor in the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Right, I think that's what The Economist was driving at... that these sorts of inexplicable variances will, over time, either become explicable or become invariant, and that when they become invariant, competitive pressure will tend to cause (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GpFJ64.LBE@lugnet.com... (...) No. I meant there isn't any VAT difference at all, now. Period In the EU VAT is charged at the rate of the selling country, not the customers country. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Sorry if it wasn't clear but I was agreeing with you... this is an inexplicable variance that over time would expected to become invariant, hopefully at the lower price points. That's the thesis of The Economist, and my hope as well. (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) And our hope too! :-) But of course, one *bad* thing could happen, if LEGO decided to level prices by the *highest*. (Follows O-T:) By the way, I believe you were right about the example of cars and tires. I can add something to it: tires are (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro: one currency does not mean one price :-( —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) (Sorry, forgot to sign :-/) Pedro (22 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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