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| | | I was looking at the 2000 shop at home catalog and noticed that whereas set prices in UK are a little bit less than the common 'pounds for dollars' ratio, the prices of train extras were not. i.e. stright rails are $12.99 and often £12.99 in UK (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: train part prices —Steve Anderson
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| | | | | (...) Mail. (...) It's absurd. Given the proximity of Denmark to, well, the whole of Europe, prices should be a lot less. I say we have a no-Lego day, like the petrol pump boycott. Nobody has anything to do with Lego that day, except to explain to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: train part prices —Peter Simpson
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| | | | Here we go again, complaining again about "rip off britain". Everyone knows that everything costs far more in Britain because the price reflects the high wage costs, high fuel transport costs, and the high cost of premises to operate a distribution (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: train part prices —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | (...) You dont believe this spin put out by those who would rather prices remained high do you? Prices are high in UK simply because we dont complain and accept it. Folks dont shop around or haggle, whereas our continental cousins are apparently (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: train part prices —Jon D. Hayward
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| | | | | (...) have (...) <lots of snips> The toy section at Wal-Mart near the M4/M5 junction opened today. Pity I was there Saturday :-( Anyone near enough to take a look? Jono. (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | WalMart UK(was Re: train part prices) —Phil Traviss
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| | | | | | ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon D Hayward <JonDHayward@Blueyonder.co.uk> To: <lugnet.loc.uk@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:45 PM Subject: Re: train part prices (...) have (...) in (...) was (...) I got it wrong too (I went last (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: WalMart UK(was Re: train part prices) —Peter Simpson
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| | | | | | It would appear yet another American dream is in the hands of our affluent few, and they will wring those hands and extract more of our hard earned money. Hate to say it, but I did say......... Phil Traviss <philt@castleton-comms.co.uk> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: train part prices —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | (...) No, if you make prices cheaper people will think the product is rubbish - 'cheap and nasty' comes to mind. Companies have increased sales by increasing prices because they think they are getting better quality. (...) You mean in the same way (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: train part prices —Peter Simpson
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| | | | lawrence wilkes <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:Fy7rrr.6o@lugnet.com... (...) knows (...) to (...) remained (...) Of cousre not, but that was my "humour", now snipped on the cutting room floor. (...) Whats the point of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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