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Re: Official LEGO storage boxes? For more than a hundred bucks each?!
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lugnet.storage
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:20:50 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, John Patterson wrote:
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They are in the new catalog. My guess is that they were made in China and
cost Lego about a dollar each. Tack on another dollar for shipping to the
distrabution center.
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Yeah, not buying that guesstimate, on either count. Wood in large volume is a
lot more expensive than a small amount of plastic, and for shipping purposes,
those will either eat up a huge amount of volume (if they’re preassembled), or
weigh an ungodly amount (if they’re flat-boxed kits) and still take up a large
volume. Either way, they will not ship anywhere near as economically as small
boxes of plastic toys. Also, consider warehousing costs, which will again be
much higher based on volume (and order-picking might be similarly affected by
both weight and volume).
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Give it time, they probably bought thousands and when they get stuck with
them, as with Galidor, the price will drop very very low.
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I’m sure they don’t expect this to sell like hotcakes, so they probably ordered
in fairly low volume. There will be enough moderately wealthy families out
there who’ll think this is worth buying for them to move their stock. When I
was in high school, I spent a few years working for a boat-builder, and he used
to make rocking-boats that a local store would sell for ~$150. This was over 15
years ago, we lived in a resort town of ~6000 residents, and those rocking-boats
would still sell as fast as he could make them.
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