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Re: Ok, I take it back...
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:50:57 GMT
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What a shock! S@H in the US indicated that on normal items they receive a
very small percentage of the actual sets produced, however on Star Wars sets
they did increase their initial "orders" and since have increased them even
more. I was one of the first to indicate (on RTL) that these would be
equally as difficult to find in TRU (I did say I hoped I was wrong) but I
accept your apology. Lets still hope I am wrong, so we can find these...
eventually.
James Brown wrote in message ...
> <follow-up set to market.shopping>
> Ok, I take back everything I've said about the availability of SW sets, and
> apologize to all those whose warnings of scalpers I've scoffed at...
>
> It seems (due to a TRU employee, who will remain nameless, and therefore
> blameless) that there isn't going to be much Star Wars hitting the shelves • at
> all in March.
>
> TRU Canada uses a central warehouse that then ships out to all Canadian
> locations (neat - I didn't know that before), and my friendly informant let • me
> know a couple of relevant numbers - unfortunately, it was very near closing • by
> the time I got out there, so I was only able to get a 'partial' information
> grab before involuntary extraction. ;)
>
> 7110 Landspeeder - 3000 units ordered for Canada
> 7130 Snowspeeder - 1800 units ordered for Canada
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> The landspeeder is going to get about 1% distribution to each store(1), and • I
> would assume the snowspeeder is about the same. - possibly more in larger
> centers like Vancouver and Toronto
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> Now is it just me, or are those numbers WAY short of the kind of volume • these
> things should be selling at? I mean, come on,TRU! Do you really think • that
> only 1 in 10,000 people is going to want a Landspeeder?
>
> I'm planning on picking up around 15 or so of these just for the blond and • grey
> hairpieces - I should not be qualifying as .5% of the national market!
> You would think that something that intersects two wide-appeal markets • (Lego
> and SW) would see a greater turn-out, especially for the <$10.00 set! • Aren't
> those the ones that generally sell better?
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> Even the other Lego themes have a higher volume - the <$10.00 Western sets • are
> easily 50 to a store here - even after 2 months at 50% off. (2)
>
> Any, this seems to be devolving into a rant, so I'll stop here.
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> I'll also try to get some more numbers tomorrow.
>
> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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> 1: based on the store where my anonymous benefactor worked (32 units)
> 2: of course, that might be just a comment of the popularity of western ;)
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