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Re: More Rip Off Britain from LEGO
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:49:39 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Jason J. Railton writes:
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Lawrence,
> > we only have ourselves to blame. They will work out the costs based on how
> > much they think they will sell at any given price. No doubt, if the UK
> > bought more Lego trains we may well get them a fraction cheaper.
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> That's just not true. All the S@H stuff comes from one central place, so
> the whole of Europe is just one market. There's no national segmentation.
> The only difference between countries is shipping costs, and we pay the
> various shipping rates separately anyway.
You appear to be saying they s@h only? Are they? If they are then, other
than tax differences they should be the same. But despite that, my 1st
sentence still holds true - supply & demand!
Scott A
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> > I am just happy they are making these sets, rather than more like the 4560
> > style sets.
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> I'm glad to see them too, but I'm tired of things showing up all over the
> website as 'not available'. They plug the wagons, dinosaurs and sand-red
> bricks on the main page of shop.lego.com, but none of these have prices and
> all are listed as 'not available'.
In the case of the dinosaurs - I am not concerned.
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> Jason J Railton
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| (...) This thread was discussing the prices of the new train wagons, which are exclusive to S@H. So, apart from tax and shipping costs, there shouldn't be a difference. But, they probably match the on-line prices to shop prices which are so (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) That's just not true. All the S@H stuff comes from one central place, so the whole of Europe is just one market. There's no national segmentation. The only difference between countries is shipping costs, and we pay the various shipping rates (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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