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Re: [Slightly of topic] Why?
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:39:53 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.
Not this year...My brother's been trying to get home from Prague for
Christmas, and hasn't been able to get any prices that even resemble
reasonable. But airlines aren't gouging people because of the Y2K thing,
honest. :/
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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