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Re: Price reductions - where will it all end?
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Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:40:10 GMT
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> Looking at the price reductions at eToys.co.uk makes me want to laugh and
> cry.
Your going to need a tissue for both,
> It's great to see some deep price cuts in the UK at last. But what's
> alarming is the speed at which the reductions are taking place. Sets that
> are barely 3 months old are now reduced by 50%. I bought Vision Command • for
> £90 in September (Ok, that was slightly over the odds then). Now just 2 • 1/2
> months later it can be had for 30-odd.
And notice, its discontinued all ready, eg the New Mindstroms AT-AT?
WHAT??? - its 3 months old.
> What is a collector to do? Go out and buy Star Wars sets, for example, as
> soon as they appear, or wait in case they are reduced? How long does one
> wait until they are no longer available? A tricky one for sure...
You could get them on ebay if your willing to do this,
> I think the answer for me at least is to only buy the sets I can't live
> without right away, then snap up any bargains later on. The tricky bit • will
> be keeping sets in the can't live without category as to a minimum...
Yes this is the way that i work on, who want to pay £100/120 for a silver
Champion and it will become cheap as it's dead stock in shop terms? so it
will come cheap,
Tip, never buy big new models, my local TRU has its UCS box's opened due to
people wanting to look inside, and moaning about the price etc..
One thing that i did notice, a full aisle in TRU about 50 meter or so was
reduced to a few box's (the most expensive ones left)1 week before xmas,
it's was mad!!!,
> Having just ordered the UCX Xwing for 57, I am happy, but to see the Mars
> Mission and Busy City book/sets available for £6, after having bought them
> for £13 for my daughter's Christmas just a month ago makes me cry...
I am laughing, I love the sales..
In my view I hope we will have the same price story as the US, cheap prices
for UK
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Michael
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| On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Michael Edwards (<G6CsDp.JJx@lugnet.com>) wrote at 23:40:10 (...) No. Actually this will be very bad. The reason sets are sold off cheaply is because they can't sell them any other way. This means that somebody isn't making much (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| Looking at the price reductions at eToys.co.uk makes me want to laugh and cry. It's great to see some deep price cuts in the UK at last. But what's alarming is the speed at which the reductions are taking place. Sets that are barely 3 months old are (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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