Subject:
|
Re: Tuesday Morning Sale
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.market.shopping
|
Date:
|
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:54:06 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
376 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.market.shopping, James Simpson writes:
>
> My wife went this morning, and she got me the 1715 Basic Bricks set for $4.99.
> It has 400 bricks + 80 or so "free" (Whatever that means. I'll find out when I
> get home.) Not too shabby. That is about $.01 per brick. She also said that
> they had some kind of Duplo set with silver bricks, and some Adventurers.
> Anyway, I'm sorry that I don't have more info.at this time (I'm at work, and
> this is about all I have time to post right now), but it sounds like this
> Tuesday Morning close-out has some good things.
Follow up: I am very suprised at Lego. The box that the bricks came in was
interesting in that it was obviously bound for Mexico, which I had never seen
before. There was a big red sticker plastered on the front that said in large
type something to the effect of: "84 pieces free!", and then at the bottom
(written in Spanish), it basically said that these 84 "free pieces" are free
only if you compare the average price of other sets versus brick count. Thus,
Lego meant that the I was getting 400 bricks for the price of 316. I'm not
complaining about the price; shoot, $4.99 would have been good for 316 bricks.
But, this set was packaged and marketed to kids; there was a smiling little
girl
showing off her creation with the bricks. I don't know...I was a bit
disappointed in Lego; they've always seemed above such subtle marketing, and I
think deceptive, strategies.
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Tuesday Morning Sale
|
| (...) My wife went this morning, and she got me the 1715 Basic Bricks set for $4.99. It has 400 bricks + 80 or so "free" (Whatever that means. I'll find out when I get home.) Not too shabby. That is about $.01 per brick. She also said that they had (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
|
14 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
