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    Re: time to get what we want —Chris Maddison
   (...) <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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: time to get what we want —Tim Courtney
     In lugnet.loc.il, Chris Maddison writes: [snip] (...) Shiri.. I see you're posting under Chris's name. :-) Forget to log him out before signing on? ;-) -Tim (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: time to get what we want —Yaron Dori
     (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: time to get what we want —David Arnon
   (...) 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, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: time to get what we want —Yaron Dori
     (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: time to get what we want —David Arnon
     (...) That's interesting, so in fact the importer actually did a good job (at least better than the situation now). because it's obvious the situation has been deteriorating over the past few years. Not so much in the price point of view (that was (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
    
         Re: time to get what we want —Yaron Dori
     (...) I believe it's higher now then ever (...) true (...) correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, Amazon do not ship anything to Israel but books (but I might be wrong) (...) If you're looking for Mindstorms sets there not available though 'ROBOTEC' do (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)
   
        Re: time to get what we want —Chris Maddison
   (...) Awesome! I've heard such good things about NZ. I hope I get a chance to visit there one day. A friend of mine just got from Ireland and now I have an apetite for that, too! (...) Cool, take care and be safe. My sister just finished her studies (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il)
 

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