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  Prices for SW sets
 
SW Ep 4,5,6 sets finally arrived to Lithuania. I spotted 4 of them (except Speeder Bikes) in toy chain shop. What striked me - it is price. I purchased for the begining only Landspeeder. It costs here 12,25USD (which looks like twice as in US)! Tie (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) Well, I was in Amsterdam in the beginning of April, and a Bart Smit toy store there had all of the SW sets. While I was only doing the conversions in my head, they seemed to be comparably priced to the US. eric (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) If you´re interested in an international statistics, here are the prices for SW Lego in germany: Landspeeder 9,30 USD Speeder Bikes 13,66 USD Snowspeeder 27,32 USD X-Wing 43,72 USD Y-Wing/TIE 65,57 USD The sets are available for two weeks now (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) Approximate "normal" US prices are as follows: Landspeeder 7.00 Speeder Bikes 11.00 Snowspeeder 22.00 X-Wing 33.00 Y-Wing/TIE 54.00 These are all in US dollars. The prices change a bit from store to store, but not more than $5.00. -Jonathan (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) That's just nuts! I'd suggest getting in contact with someone here in the US to ship them to you. With shipping, Sales Tax, and any sort of Import taxes, it would still be less than buying them in the stores. Jeff P.S. At Toys R Us, the prices (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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Do not go out and but them from K B Toys. They are over priced by $5.00 to $10.00 more than any one ells, (in the states that is) Landspeeder $9.99 Speeder Bikes $13.999 Snow Speeder $24.99 X-Wing Fighter $34.99 Tie / Y Wing $59.00 (when I bought (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) I bought all my sets at KB because it was the only place that had them. As far as I've seen only 2 sets (the snow speeder and the tie fighter) were higher than the prices given in the Lego s@h catalog. The day I went, they were also 25% off, (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
  Re: Prices for SW sets UK prices
 
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 05:40:20 GMT, Gintaras Rumsas uttered the following profundities... (...) In the UK, the cheapest known prices are as follows: 7110 GBP4.99 USD7.98 7128 GBP6.99 USD11.18 7130 GBP14.99 USD23.98 7140 GBP24.99 USD39.98 7150 GBP37.99 (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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They are finally here in Turkey, too, although I could only find TIE/Y-Wing and X-Wing sets. The prices of them are as follows: X-Wing : 16 950 000 TL : 43.14 USD TIE/Y-Wing : 26 750 000 TL : 68.10 USD Pricey as always (but not too much, as in the (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote in message news:372CD19A.F82A34...ine.com... (...) team (...) Have you considered getting someone to buy over here and ship? It might be cheaper if you go surface. Considering the number of (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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Jesse R. Long wrote in message ... (...) Yes, they are quite cheap in "Lego Units". And they are not as much pricey wrt. US prices,too (only 10-12% higher). Actually I have nice friends from RTL/lugnet for this, but price difference seems as not (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) These price look like something I can accept. (...) I wish to find too... Play well Gintaras (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) Lucky people live somewhere far from me...;) (...) And even so they are lucky...;) Play well Gintaras (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
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(...) Sometimes I have this problem with my wife too. It is really hard to explain when I purchased one or another set. (...) I am 40 but in such a case (problem with my parents in law) I need to say "These adults do not understand me...");) (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 
  Re: Prices for SW sets
 
I've just picked up the first two SW sets to hit my local toy store here in Wellington, New Zealand Landspeeder US$9.63 Speederbikes US$12.93 Sanjay Jonathan wrote in message ... (...) for (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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