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Re: Shop report - Toy Stack, Lakeside, Thurrock, Essex
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Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:54:54 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> US MSRP for 5571, the last big truck, was 139 USD for 1700 pieces. 5563 is
> 88 USD for 787 pieces. That is somewhat (25-30% or so??) of an increase on a
> per piece basis but not out of line with what increases we have seen
> elsewhere across the range from TLC.
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> That doesn't make it so great, of course, but not as bad as it could be. Boy
> what a limp explanation that is...
I think that was a pretty good explanation actually, it told me what I needed to know,
that there are a reasonable number of pieces in the set, and that it is probably better
than it looks. I would agree that it could still be a _little_ bit cheaper though.
Jennifer Clark
http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk/jen/lego/
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| (...) Well using Ripoff Britain pricing of 1 pound = 1 dollar (that's what a big mac meal is priced at, for example), it's not too far off the mark at 80 sterling, where the US price was 88 usd. What was the UK price for 5571? So it's not TOO bad on (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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