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Re: [Slightly of topic] Why?
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:58:03 GMT
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:28:03 GMT, Lawrence Wilkes uttered the following
profundities...
> 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.
Visit http://www.lastminute.com
and you could probably shave a considerable amount off of that fare....
I don't know if they are still available, but the fare, purchased through
the likes of Gold Medal, etc., should be around the £120 mark, or there
abouts. No one whatsoever is flying, either for fear of Y2K, or whatever....
I have been unable to find a source that specifies when, but.....
NYC occassionally has a Tax-free day for shopping. As I understand
it, NYC has one of the highest sales taxes around. So, these tax-free
days stimulates a phenomenal amount of business.....
If you were planning a Lego trip, however, you might want to consider
a trip to Newark, NJ. It serves NYC, but because it is Newark, the
general publice might as well think it is in Minnesota. As a result,
flight loads are never that significant, and as a result, many
carriers offer substantially greater discounts (we are only
talking a few quid, mind you....) than they would for a flight
to JFK.
The benefit of Newark? (Airport code EWR) There is a **massive**
Toys 'R' Us just 5 miles from the airport!!!!! A taxi shouldn't
cost too much, if that was your only purpose for the trip.
I know! I went on a trip for some other purpose than purchasing
Lego, and upon my return to EWR, made a quick stop there. (It is
advertised on billboards from the Turnpike, so unmissable!) It
was quite amusing....pop-in, buy 2 buckets, stuff as much as
possible into the suitcases, analyse how much space is left in
them, go back inside for more.........
(I work for an airline, trust me....)
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| (...) NYC is doing away with sales tax for clothing items under, I think, $150. It's a real step forward IMHO--that 8.5-12% was too onerous. The tax-free days usually don't apply to toys and so forth, only to clothing and consumables. (...) Virgin (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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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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