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It's good to have a friend 'in the know'... Land Speeder: £6.49 Speeder Bikes: £9.29 Snow Speeder: £18.99 X-Wing: £29.99 TIE Fighter & Y-Wing: £49.99 ...well, Lucasfilm has got to earn something... BTW: Should 'TIE' be in caps? That's how it appears (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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What a RIP OFF!!!, I live in the town where much of Starwars was made! (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, home to Elstree studios, even went on the grounds a few times). Did they forget to change the currency for the X-wing, Snow speeder and Tie-fighter (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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BLOODY HELL! 30 quid for the X-Wing!!! That must be at least a 50% Hollywood tax! Still, I shan't be turning my nose up, even at those prices... Huw Jon D Hayward wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:40:16 GMT, Andrew Hood uttered the following profundities... (...) With everything, not just Lego, that price comparison is valid. What you pay for in pounds here, you can buy in the US for the same figure, but dollars. And (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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which is why I hope to immigrate to the US if I ever get the chance. (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi, From my calculations, as long as shipping prices are under $45.00, getting these sets shipped from the US is cheaper. Including my local sales Tax of 5%(1) and a VAT of 17.5%(2), the total comes to $143.06 (before any postage costs), which is a (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:52:51 GMT, Andrew Hood uttered the following profundities... (...) Why, because Lego is cheaper? I lived in the US for 17 years, and will *never* return there to live..... (I did live in New Jersey for 12 years, which should (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Andrew Hood wrote in message <36A62603.6B874284@g...es.com>... (...) Mr Pedantic says 'emmigrate' =) Anyway, everybody knows(1) that the US is the anti-Christ. Cheap Lego is merely a temptation you must stand up against! Steve (1) Okay, I saw a (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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darn knew it sounded wrong! (I'm 15, anyone would think that I may be able to get it right by now) (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... (...) It will be an option I will consider when they appear there, but by all accounts they will be like rocking horse droppings over there for the first few months, so that may not be as easy as it is with normal (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Mr Super Pedantic says 'emigrate' :-) Jonathon PS. I have resisted the urge to correct the Americans on their spelling of millennium. Even Larry P. seems to have failed to notice that they usually drop one of the 'n's. Steve Anderson wrote in (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Hmm.. dunno about the scale, but walking into Forbidden Planet or the like, I'm sure our UK fanatics are just as rabid as anyone elses :) (...) Well.. most of their firing figures have a longer range than our firing cannons, but I think we (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Yeah, wouldn't want to live in the US.. I'm considering Canada though :) Richard (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Jonathon Goldsworthy wrote in message ... (...) Damn damn damn damn damn! I'll blame that on having an exam yesterday... =) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Good heavans! What a lot of money! Here in the Netherlands, the prices are as follows: 7110 19.95 7128 unknown, wrong in computer 7130 44.95 7140 79.95 7150 129.95 (got these from lugnet.loc.nl) All these prices are in Nlg. 1 British pound is (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) That's what I thought!! (...) They are a little lower - another excuse to open that EURO account, shipping would cancel the difference out though, I'm sure - I don't think the rest of the EU will be that much cheaper - they have to ship it (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:05:25 GMT, Mark de Kock uttered the following profundities... (...) We are the highest traffic local site, I believe! I don't know about the others, but I welcome input from fellow Europeans! If I should do a weekend trip to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) a (...) That's how I got to your site. In the statistics you were the bussiest site around. (...) I don't know about France, but Lego is usually very available in Dutch shops. The prices I posted are from 'Vroom & Dreesman' or 'V&D', a large (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) Ooh! I'm part of something big! =) (...) Likewise. To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, I'm very big on being European - and I look forward to my Euro account as well, because financially speaking the Euro could (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Cool. (...) Where are you opening a EURO account? I don't qualify for the TSB one and I don't know much about Barclays. Anywhere else - Abbey National don't do one. What about this symbol - € ? Comes out as a question mark on the un-updated. (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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The NatWest will open a Euro account, but you have to have a sterling current account as well. They will allow you to open both at the same time if necessary. There are charges on foreign currency accounts, but for 1999 these will be waived for Euro (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Carbon 60 wrote in message <36AE39D6.87DF480A@b...ot.com>... (...) I'm with the Co-op, who're sitting on the fence with this one. I was going to see Barclays terms and try one of the other big three(1) banks and see what they can offer. (All this (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:25:49 GMT, Steve Scott uttered the following profundities... (...) That's a bit steep! A fiver! (...) My father has a US dollar account with a US bank which qualifies as a US-based branch as it is on a UK-based US military (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) bank (...) Account charges: Nat. West.: 10.00GBP per quarter Midland (HSBC): 70.00GBP per annum ...plus charges to bank and write each cheque... OTOH, if you pay US Dollar cheques into UK banks: Midland: (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Jon D Hayward wrote in message ... (...) What about writing cheques in US$? Who or what works out cheapest then? Steve ---...--- Why not visit Llegogogoch? (URL) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Steve Anderson wrote in message ... (...) I've done this for some sellers in the US who are prepared to accept a cheque drawn on a foreign bank. It's the easiest for you and I don't think it costs anything at your end (the Clydesdale bank didn't (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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