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Re: [Slightly of topic] Why?
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:10:00 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Jaco van der Molen writes:
> > Can someone tell me why I live in the Netherlands?
> > I would like to have them 2000 sets aswel...
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> No
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> > Perhaps I should go shopping for one day in New York or something. That is
> > what some fellow Dutchmen did: fly from Amsterdam to New York, do some X-mas
> > shopping and fly back... in 24 hrs!!! Sick... I saw it on the news here in
> > Holland.
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> Not sick, probably sound ecomomic sense.
> Here in the UK at this time of year flights to the US are very cheap, I assume
> its the same in Holland. They are often around the £200 GBP mark
> There always seems to be some newspaper article about now showing how due to
> the lower prices in the US, the flight can be self funding, i.e. you save more
> money on your purchases than the flight cost.
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> So, who's sick? The guy who did something about it, or us for just talking
> about it!
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> Its quite common to do this. Even better if you are a frequent flyer on
> British Airways as they reduce the number of miles you need to give up for a
> ticket by a very nice 75%
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> regards
> lawrence
Every fall we in Newfoundland get descended upon by a group of Icelanders for a
couple of days, for just that purpose, Christmas shopping. There's even a tour
company over there that arranges it. We know they're here because of all the
"Vilkomin" signs in stores all over town :-)
Apparently you can't buy Lego at all in Iceland - no wonder they want to come
here...
Heather Patey
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Pirate Wench / Brick Detective
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| (...) No (...) Not sick, probably sound ecomomic sense. Here in the UK at this time of year flights to the US are very cheap, I assume its the same in Holland. They are often around the £200 GBP mark There always seems to be some newspaper article (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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