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Re: retail stores in Naarden
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lugnet.loc.nl
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Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:00:33 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.nl, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
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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 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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