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| Hi all, SHANA TOVA (Good Year) I wanted to say to you & your families have a happy, astonishing, new year with health, wealth & of course tons of new bricks. My minifig's wanted to say something too at: (URL) (I really hope you'll like it) Yaron (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il)
| | |  | | Re: time to get what we want
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| (...) Yes, you were write, it was Kaufman until somewhere in the late 90's (I believe 97/98) but afterward (for some unknown peculiar reason) the import that Kaufman did stopped (some salesman from a little toy store told me) and that's why all the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) MECHES? AFAIK the import tax on toys is only 17% (I checked it when I started buying Lego on ebay) hardly enough to explain the 100-200% markup we're used to pay in Israel. (...) I suspect you are right :-( The chances are virtually zero, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Isn't there nothing we can do to convince them otherwise? At the start there were less countries that shop@home did shipping and only a while ago they added countries like Australia, France and some others, could it be that they only taking (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Hey guys, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there's not much chance of letters like that helping. I had a chance to talk to a LEGO employee who, IIRC, is pretty high in the marketing heirarchy, at Brickfest 2001. Her name is Peggy (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
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