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Re: Velux House is now available online
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lugnet.promo, lugnet.loc.uk
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Date:
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Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:30:38 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Simon Denscombe writes:
> In lugnet.promo, Eric Joslin writes:
> > Excellent! Of course, those filthy liars said they would let me know when
> > they
> > were available... then again, that was several months ago.
>
> This was VELUX Europe that contacted me.
Yeah, that was who I contacted about it. I was mostly kidding about the
"filthy liars" thing, I do realise that the reality of this kind of situation
is that they have better things to deal with than keep those kinds of "tell me
when" requests on file.
Frankly, I'm just happy they're so widely available. I've wanted this set for
a long, long time.
> > I wonder how long this has been in place... I've seen several VELUX houses
> > pop
> > up for sale on BrickBay lately. I'd hate to think that someone found this a
> > couple weeks ago and kept it quiet, just to make a profit on his fellow
> > Lugnetters.
>
> It's not been there that long, the e-mail they sent me was on the Thu, 26
> Oct 2000 09:45:23 +0200 but they were available for offline ordering since
> August.
Hmmm. Same concerns apply, then.
It's disturbing to me that there are people that would find out about this,
then buy them and sell them to others in the LEGO community for a jacked up
price on the idea that they were still rare and hard to get. It's the same to
me as the person who buys LEGO shop-at-ome exclusives and turns around to sell
them on eBay as a "rare" set. It's not rare, it's immediately available.
I guess I'm particularly sensitive in this case because less than two weeks ago
I considered buying one of these on BrickBay for $55 (before shipping), which
is well over 200% of the price VELUX is asking.
eric
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