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| Watch out for those shipping prices! I was all prepared to buy 4 Naboo Swamp sets until I discovered that shipping would be $15.00. Kind of takes the "sale" out of the sale. The way I figure it, they're not paying for store space if they're online, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Huh...That's weird. Did you pick the standard or the express shipping? I was just poking around, and picked standard, which was ~$7, not very cheap for 4 Naboo Swamp sets. Looking at their shipping scheme, it is $3 base for standard, +$0.95 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| I looked at a couple of different pricing schemes. They were all way too much. You could US Mail all 4 o' them critters for less than 7 bucks. The way I figure, it's just not worth it. IMO ~M (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) At least they don't jack up their prices above retail, or put non outlet stores in outlet malls, both KB tricks. The shipping isn't so bad if your order is bigger, mine was 300 and the shipping added 20. Not a great deal but not too bad. ++Lar (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Not until after you'd bought a box and some plastic peanuts, and paid someone to pull them from inventory, stuff 'em in the box, top it off with peanuts, seal it up, and label it, you couldn't. It doesn't seem likely, at their prices, but it's (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) You're forgetting the fact that online stores don't have to pay for store overhead like the ones in the mall, and if they're selling most things at mall-store retail prices, where's that extra $ going? ~Mark (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Webhosting, software development, photography for their webpage images, hot tubs in the executive washrooms ... ;-) I'm not an expert, so I don't know what all the similarities and differences in costs are. I just wanted to point out that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| But there's labor in shelving (and reshelving and reshelving and straightening up after the kids and their parents) in a brick store. The only volunteer part is the "delivery". Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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