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In lugnet.loc.uk, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Scott Arthur writes:
> > I am left wondering is LEGO does not understand that the UK, GB, Scotland,
> > England, Northern Ireland and even Wales all have quite strange national
> > identities. To officially consider one country to be part on another just to
> > ease marketing seems to me to be a little crass.
>
> Where is Scotland? 22nd according to FIFA rankings.
>
> Lets face it, the average .com considers the UK to be the 51st State of the
> USA. How many corporates dont have a UK web site and just point you their US
> one on the basis that we speak the same (or similar) English language. Even
> though they provide a French Site in French that supports the French market
> (ie www.whateve.fr), or same for Germany, the www.whatever.co.uk site just
> takes you to www.whatever.com.
> For a long while that's what www.lego.co.uk did - just redirect you to
> www.lego.com
>
> Anyway, I notice they have changed it to UK now.
>
> You werent proposing they had separate Scotish, Welsh, English sites were you?
> UK is the only entity that really matters I would have thought as that
> represents the trading area that has the same rules - like availability, and
> VAT.
Nope, only that the UK should be described as the UK (it is now) not "England"
as it was a few days ago. Even though the error was corrected, I was bemused
by the response of LEGO - so I shared it.
As for Scotalnd's FIFA ranking (England is 14), we do not claim to be the best
team in the world... only the best in the UK :-)
Scott A
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>
> regards
> lawrence
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| (...) Where is Scotland? 22nd according to FIFA rankings. Lets face it, the average .com considers the UK to be the 51st State of the USA. How many corporates dont have a UK web site and just point you their US one on the basis that we speak the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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