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People frequently don't appreciate the distances involved in this country. The
only chance you can argue this one with Ben over a beer, is by long distance
call.
Box hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Melbourne is about 1000km's south of Sydney.
Though if you include the price of a flight there, it can happen. It'd better
be good beer for that much money.
Enjoy Sydney Larry, are you sure you want to leave just BEFORE the Olympics?
Santosh
In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
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> > It always amazes me how people in a country with the cheapest lego and
> > largest range are always complaining about how it costs so much...
>
> And it always amazes me that you bring this up again and again! :-)
>
> Look, the fact that you're paying 3x what some sets are worth doesn't make the
> fact that the US is paying 2x what the same sets are worth any less bad.
> Instead of trying to incite cross continent acrimony, we ought to be working
> together to take advantage of times when stuff is cheap and to encourage TLC
> to better serve the AFOL marketplace.
>
> That's my 2 cents US anyway. Let's argue this point further over a beer later
> this month when I am in Oz, I'm buying... assuming Box Hill is somewhere near
> Sydney, anyway.
>
> ++Lar
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