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Re: LEGO Legend #10041 European prices and shipping
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lugnet.loc.eu
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Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:13:44 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.eu, Pedro Silva writes:
> Still, we are paying the same €5 difference in both the SFSC cars and
> #10041; since the base prices are different and VAT is a percentage of it,
> one of two things is happening:
> a) we're paying too much VAT for the cars;
> b) we're paying too little VAT for the Main Street set.
They DO round of to certain prices that come from a limited set of
incrementing price levels (a kind of steps on the price ladder) for instance
EURO 69,99, EUR0 74.99, EUR0 79.99. Having a limited set of possible prices
makes maintainance and billing more easy.
Stranger are the real differences between two European currencies for
identical sets. When the EURO price of set #10041 was still unknown, but I
was aware of the price British Pounds, I compared the EURO prices of all
available sets on the UK part of Shop at Home, that have the same British
Pounds price as #10041. I've found price differences up to 10 Euro for these
sets, and I think we were lucky with #10041, see:
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/eu/?n=172
(Sorry about mentioning EURO 15 as difference, that was a mistake)
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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 | | Re: LEGO Legend #10041 European prices and shipping
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| (...) Ok, it's a valid point to explain *the existance* of a difference. Still, we are paying the same €5 difference in both the SFSC cars and #10041; since the base prices are different and VAT is a percentage of it, one of two things is happening: (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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