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Re: Shell Ferrari $15 if you have a Charge card!! but....
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lugnet.promo, lugnet.market.shopping
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Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:37:28 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Julie Krenz writes:
> In lugnet.promo, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > The reason that they arent allowed to sell the larger sets yet would be
> > this:
> > they only have a limited supply of the larger sets and once thats gone
> > they cant just call up lego or shell and get more AFAIK.
> > So they dont want to start selling them now so that when xmas does come
> > around there are still enough large sets on the shelves to go around for
> > those people who want to buy them as gifts etc.
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> I think it has more to do with the fact that the set is a promo.As in Shell is
> using the sets to promote their gas stations.
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> They are using new sets each week or so to draw people into their gas stations
> to buy Shell gasoline.
> They want us to come to the gas station at every fillup to see what set has
> become available. It would not do Shell any good for them to sell all the sets
> at once.
At the Shell stations around Washington, you can buy all of the sets now. It
just depends on the managment of the individual gas station, or the mood of
whoever is behind the counter.
Daniel
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