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Re: Best Price for Mindstorms
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:13:14 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim West <jwest@frii.com>
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At 10:53 11/10/1998 -0700, Dirk Leas wrote:
I need to buy Mindstorms for my son.  Where's the best deal?  I'm assuming
I'll be buying it mail-order.  I live in Phoenix, just in case someone local
discounts the price.

TIA,
Dirk

  After calling around to a few places (this was two weeks ago) the only
place I found that actually had them in stock was LEGO Mindstorms directly.
$219 + shipping to Colorado (~$232).  Got it in three days.


Jim West
NIC Team Lead
MCI Worldcom
Jim.West@mci.com



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  Re: Best Price for Mindstorms
 
I just stumbled on some at the Citadel MediaPlay in Colorado Springs. I managed to convince my parents that it would make a wonderful Christmas present (that, and the offer to pay for half didn't hurt). As I recall, it was 199.95 plus tax with the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Best Price for Mindstorms
 
I picked up mine at the Fry's in Tempe for $199. I was down there last week and they still had a couple of them left. The Toys-r-us at Mentro Center had a sign saying they had them, but I could not find any. You may just want to call around. Brett (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Two comments... 1) 219 is not exactly a discount, which is what I thought TigerDirect was... a discount house... 2) I could not determine easily if shipping was extra or included. If extra it's even worse of a deal since S@H doesn't charge (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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