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Re: Euro shopping idea update
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:23:37 GMT
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on the way
back things may be a bit crowded, i.e.Lego on laps, on roof rack etc but it
does
keep costs to the minimum.

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 pillaging all their old
stock?!

we need to set out a few ground rules, like who gets what, and what
the ground rules are RE: profiteering?

Anyone intending to profiteer should be barred IMHO.

Suggest you decide who's going and talk about it on the way over.
Difficult to know what you might want to but until you've seen
everything they've got - cash is likely to be limiting.


Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK



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  Re: Euro shopping idea update
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
  Re: Euro shopping idea update
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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  Euro shopping idea update
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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