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Re: #3033 available from UK Shop-at-Home at £24.99!!!
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:20:04 GMT
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"Col" <numbersix@REMOVEfreshfroot.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Gs7M5D.CDu@lugnet.com...
> Hiya
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> "Jon D Hayward" <JonDHayward@Yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Gs7BtM.535@lugnet.com...
> > Sorry guys, I thought that 2p per brick was a good price...
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> It is, generally. But, I seem to remember that the last *real* bulk • brick
> pack that was available in the UK, 1857, contained 950 bricks for • about
> £12 - about 1.3p per brick. I think it was last generally available in • 1998,
> and I don't remember inflation being 50% between then and now (house • prices
> excluded!)
They were selling 1857 last year in The Entertainer.
For just £6 a pack.
That WAS worth buying.
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> Incidentally I agree with all the comments about Shop at Home's • shipping
> prices. The only other online shop that I regularly buy stuff from is
> Amazon, and I generally think their shipping prices are high, but at • least
> they mostly have items below RRP. Either the price of the goods or of
> shipping has to fall. The current situation is not what the dream of
> ecommerce was about! But then, given the state of most UK toyshops, • we're
> lucky to be able to buy any Lego at all...
Lego behaves like a monopoly, and hence charges what it likes, knowing
that not only can you not buy a real alternative, but in the UK at
least, have no other source than Lego themselves.
Whilst I love my Lego collection, and love building with bricks, I think
Lego the company has become a greedy corporate giant for whom I have no
love.
As a consequence very little of my disposable income (which is
considerable) goes to Lego way these days.
I may be well off, but that doesn't mean I like being ripped off.
regards
loz
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| Hiya "Jon D Hayward" <JonDHayward@Yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gs7BtM.535@lugnet.com... (...) It is, generally. But, I seem to remember that the last *real* bulk brick pack that was available in the UK, 1857, contained 950 bricks for about £12 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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