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    Re: sale @ etoys.com —Toki Barron
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: sale @ etoys.com —Mark Sandlin
   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)
   
        Re: sale @ etoys.com —Ran Talbott
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: sale @ etoys.com —Mark Sandlin
    (...) 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)
   
        Re: sale @ etoys.com —Ran Talbott
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: sale @ etoys.com —Dennis Williamson
   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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