 | | Euro shopping idea update —Jason Briscoe
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| | | Hi all, there seems to be a lot of interest in this, and as Huw has already pointed out to me some of us will be disappointed! To clarify the shop was not full of metroliners two were just about visible through the shop window. I don't know how much (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | (...) I had similar thoughts. How would you keep everyone happy if there was only 2 metroliners (draw some straws?) Have you considered phoning them to find out stock levels first? Have you considered phoning them to see if they would ship - save a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Jason Briscoe
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| | | | | | (...) some (...) by (...) of (...) by (...) Yes I have thought about going myself and it would work out too expensive, Road tolls aprox 20 quid, + eurotunnel crossing 50 quid,+ diesel 40 quid! Hence needing a car load of us! RE: phoning them, well I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Jon D. Hayward
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| | | | | I'd guess that most (potential) attendees would like a Metroliner, but there probably won't be enough to go round. I see no _fair_ way to split them out, but as a suggestion, draw people's names from a hat...? and only include names where (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Ian Bishop
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| | | | (...) Avez-vous une trailer?! Better watch the import duty ('but it's all for my own consumption, honest'). Going to look very dodgy too, six grown men in an estate car chock-a-block with 'Lego boxes'! Wonder what our French friends think of us (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Phil Traviss
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| | | | | Ian's comments about import duty reminded me of something that happened to me some years ago. (There's no real point to this story, so disinterested readers exit now...) I think it was 1990, I flew back from the States into Heathrow, with some of my (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Euro shopping idea update —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | (...) We should leave them in France :-) (...) I also think a slightly fairer system of where you refrain from buying set if you've already got one, for example I would want a Metroliner and also the Club cars but since I already have two Club Cars (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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