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Re: retail stores in Naarden
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Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:00:33 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.nl, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:

I would not bother if I where you, for it will be a disapointment. The main
toy store chains in The Netherlands, Intertoys and Bart-Smit have merged a
while ago, and lack of competition make them bold enough to ask rediculous
prices. These are well above the prices that LEGO prints in the cataloges,
to hide this painfull fact they even refuse to hand out LEGO cataloges. Also
they have poor selection, they only want to offer fast selling items.
Nowadays only the independent toy stores are still interesting, but most of
these are located in the remote border regions of our country.

Manfred,
Thanks for the information. I was in Hilversum two years ago and picked up a
small set for my daughter at Bart-Smit. Yes the prices were not that great
then, so not much has changed. I also found a small independent, in
Hilversum as well, but their selection was not great.

What kind of items are you looking for ?

I was hoping to find some unique European promotional sets of some kind -
Shell, Maersk, etc?

Regards,
Peter



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(...) Maersk sets have been resticted to relations and associates of the company. This means only at collectors prices on Bricklink and /or Ebay. No Shell promo at this momenet that I'm aware of. Some Intertoys shops where selling of some types of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.nl)

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(...) I would not bother if I where you, for it will be a disapointment. The main toy store chains in The Netherlands, Intertoys and Bart-Smit have merged a while ago, and lack of competition make them bold enough to ask rediculous prices. These are (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.nl)

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