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| | | <drool> My Falcon and UCS just arrived - how can I keep working until 5pm without ripping the boxes open and building? Dan (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) Jammy git got a Falcon then... None when I looked... And someone nabbed the last R/C car while I was filling up my shopping basket. I'm still waiting for dispatch confirmation of the few minifig sets I ordered. Jason. (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Ronan Webb
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| | | | | Someone nabbed the last grey baseplate while I loading up ... I panicked and headed for the checkout, luckily my basket was still intact. RW (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) Once the items are in your shopping basket, they are reserved for you - just like real life. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Huw Millington
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| | | | | | "Scott A" <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:G6nLB4.8yn@lugnet.com... (...) just (...) Last night, after the closing down announcement, that was certainly not the case. I had a load of the 633 roof slopes packs in my basket, but when I went (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Mark Morgan
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| | | | | | (...) I'll second that Huw. Two MTT trade federations and two Slave 1s disappeared when I was dilly-dallying over my stash on Day One. Have not yet received my orders, though. BTW did anyone get a 6091 King Leo's Castle as a friend's 8 yr old wants (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) The guy on the help-line must have been trying to placate me in that case. I waited 2 hours for the site to be updated as a few of the items I wanted were not entering my basket at half-price. As he promised, I did not loose out… I must have (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | "Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message news:G6nC9q.41w@lugnet.com... (...) Oh yeah - spent a few hours putting it together last night. Much better when built than the box looks, but still lacks a lot. And I was surprised how (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) I just got dispatch confirmation (Tue 9th) that my stuff was dispatched yesterday (Mon 8th), for an order placed on New Year's Eve. This goes via Business Express, but the consignment number I was given shows up as one delivered to Glenrothes (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) I placed my 1st order on 1/1/1, so I may get mine soon. (...) Indeed they are. It must be clear to them now that going straight to a 50% off sale has done nothing but loose them a large amount of money and stretch their (demoralised?) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) Hang in there! I've now got to wait for delivery. (...) I meant Business Express - their consignment numbers obviously don't have enough digits if they're re-using them within the space of four weeks. On top of that they must have a separate (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | (...) I received my order today (Power Puller and Helicopter) which was placed online at around midnight of Friday the 29th. Whether that meant the order was processed on the following Saturday or Monday I have no idea. The online parcel tracking (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | "Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:G6xAF0.K82@lugnet.com... (...) I placed my order on Friday 29th Dec for the 2 SW UCS sets, a Falcon, and some of the cheap sets I didn't have, and they all arrived on Thursday (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Ronan Webb
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| | | | In lugnet.loc.uk, Daniel Crichton writes: <snip> (...) <snip> I placed my order on 30th Dec - it's apparently arrived now (Jan 9/10)! Unfortunately, I missed the boat for some of the larger sets - but still, looking again and again through my order (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Alison Pike
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| | | | I placed 3 orders with etoys on the 29th & 30th December and 1st January. So far none have arrived although I have been e-mailed to say that the one ordered on the 30th is on the way. Has any one who ordered as early as 29th not got their order yet? (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | (...) I received no replies to my email either, but managed to get through on the phone. The trick is not to "press 1 for order enquiries" as instructed; just wait until the blurb is over and you get redirected to a human operator. Jennifer Clark (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Steve Scott
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| | | | "Masterbuilder" <the.pikes@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:G6yB9s.5oM@lugnet.com... (...) Yes me :( I have an order confirmation but no despatch notice for my order placed on 29-12-00 at 10:37am. I'm beginning to think that £150 for a Silver (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jonathon Goldsworthy
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| | | | Hang on in there. I'm completely confident that my power puller, silver champ., falcon, UCS X-wing & TIE-fighter, vision control, football championship and blue turbo will arrive before the end of the week. I ordered them at 6pm on 29th Dec, and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Kev Holmes
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| | | | | Yep, I'd echo that. We placed a large order on the 29th and it only arrived today, whereas some smaller orders we placed after that were delivered a few days ago... For the record, we had a dispatch note dated on the 5th, so it took 5 days to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | | "Kev Holmes" <kev.holmes@net.ntl.com> wrote in message news:G6yu7u.KAt@lugnet.com... (...) sets (...) I managed to convince my girlfriend that waiting until mine in November was not an option, and that we (I!) was buying the sets as a Xmas treat (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) That's criminal. Look, I'll give you the cash for the Falcon now. Invest it wisely (then sell some Tupperware or something), and buy a brand new one in December. My order just arrived - everyone else's cast offs of Landspeeder, Desert Skiff (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) Got that. (...) Sod (...) Sod (...) Sod (...) Got that (...) Your welcome to those. Scott A (I'm not bitter) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message news:G6zt1M.8H5@lugnet.com... (...) Can I say it again in case nobody has seen my other posts ... GOT THEM! Woo hoo, they look soooo good on my desk. Dan (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jonathon Goldsworthy
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| | | | Not here yet, hoping for tomorrow. Comments inserted below: Scott A wrote in message ... (...) Good. (...) Hey, there's no need for that. :-) ..., but if you're going to be like that, Ha! (...) Ha! Ha! (...) Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! (...) Shame :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Alison Pike
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| | | | I had an order (£236) delivered today that was ordered on 30th December. Wow What an enormous box. I have still heard no news on the order made 2 days before but did manage to get to talk to etoys. I was told that the credit card had to be checked (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: eToys closing down —Jonathon Goldsworthy
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| | | | My order arrived (at work) yesterday. Too risky, possibly life-threatening, having a box that size delivered to my home. Jonathon Masterbuilder wrote in message ... (...) Wow (...) my (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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