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Re: Hawaii - LEGO Shopping in Honolulu, etc.
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:51:46 GMT
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It's called "high shipping cost".
Congratulations and best wishes on your marriage!
Paul
In lugnet.market.theory, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> To All,
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> Well, we had a great honeymoon in Hawaii, we stayed on Oahu (SP?), where
> Honolulu and Waikiki Beach are (No, my pages aren't up yet! : ) ), and of
> course I looked for LEGO's there. I went to a Big K-Mart there a lot for
> shopping, and they had quite a selection of Adventurers, Ninja, Insectoids,
> some Extreme Team, some BASIC sets for around 25-30% off, but I didn't buy
> any, no room. I also saw some at Long's Pharmacy, but they were about 20%
> above retail price, with no reductions in sight. I saw a few interesting
> stores in the Ala Monia Shopping Center, one called Thinking Toys, and a
> Nature / Science Shop featuring expensive Mindstorms sets. Some of the
> prices were really weird, maybe 5% above retail here, and some were 20%
> above, there was no rhyme or reason I could see. Any ideas?
>
> Scott S.
> --
> Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> http://www.aeieng.com
> LEGO Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
> It's Almost Here! ->The Sanburn Systems Company
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com
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| (...) To some extent, yes, but wouldn't you think the charge on the items would be similar? At K-Mart, there was several variations across multiple things. We are talking about 5-20% difference here, which is amazing. Also, several items were (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| To All, Well, we had a great honeymoon in Hawaii, we stayed on Oahu (SP?), where Honolulu and Waikiki Beach are (No, my pages aren't up yet! : ) ), and of course I looked for LEGO's there. I went to a Big K-Mart there a lot for shopping, and they (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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