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Subject: 
Re: where to buy individual parts?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date: 
Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:23:39 GMT
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If you want to buy something out of USA in
http://shop.lego.com
http://www.pitsco-legodacta-store.com
Try to find a friend in USA and ask she/he repack and send items to you, I
did like this.

Most of sellers in http://www.brickbay.com can send items to any countries,
I did many times.

For http://www.ebay.com, discussion with seller, maybe they agree to send to
out of USA. I also tried.

Zhengrong

In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Chris Page writes:
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Zhengrong Zang writes:
> 
> There are some problems though...
> 
> > http://shop.lego.com /
> 
> Tends to only offer a very limited range of products (in the UK at least) -
> trying to get hold of some parts from there, like rotation sensors, seems to be
> virtually impossible.
> 
> > http://www.pitsco-legodacta-store.com/
> 
> Apparently will not ship outside of the US, but I can't confirm that because
> they seem incapable of even responding to emails (I've sent two over the past 3
> months, no reply), let alone try to make attempt at being helpful.
> 
> > http://www.brickbay.com/
> 
> Not tried them, do they stock the more obscure/advanced bits and ship to the UK?
> 
> > http://www.ebay.com/
> 
> Where you're gambling on finding a reliable seller supplying decent parts
> rather than some cowboy flogging damaged stuff.
> 
> Sorry to sound very negative about this, but from my experience the only way to
> get hold of half of the parts I would like, particularly additional rotation
> sensors, and be sure they are not broken or damaged, is by buying the official
> expansion boxes - and I certainly couldn't justify spending 100 UKP just to get
> my hands on two more rotation sensors!



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One more thing, this is why I am going to move to USA from Japan because I can buy LEGO in cheapest price and fast way, then I can have a big place to test my RCX Controlled LEGO Train Projects, some of them need over 5m x 5m, I have no way to debug (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Zhengrong Zang writes: There are some problems though... (...) Tends to only offer a very limited range of products (in the UK at least) - trying to get hold of some parts from there, like rotation sensors, seems to be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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