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Re: Official LEGO storage boxes? For more than a hundred bucks each?!
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Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:02:27 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, David Eaton wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, John Patterson wrote:
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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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This guess seems out of whack. Lego has pretty thin price margins
comparatively (just ask merchandisers what the ‘at cost’ price is for Lego to
get an idea). I don’t see why Lego would be jacking up the price for these
storage bins but NOT for everything else. Besides, whenever they try to
market things in the USA, the price margins are razor thin compared to
everywhere else-- why should we expect these to be any different?
But even moreso-- what do you think most US citizens would be willing to pay
for them? If they were for sale at $40 per shelf, they’d be selling like
iPods to teenagers. They’d move thousands of them REALLY quickly, because
they LOOK fantastic, they’re versatile, and they’d be affordable. If Lego’s
cost were even $20 per, they’d be making a KILLING at $40 per unit, selling
them by the proverbial barrelful. But at $100+, they’ll sell FAR fewer, and
make way less money (assuming the same $20 baseline cost for Lego).
Personally, I think these look like (and are priced like) high quality
shelves, and I’d be proud to have some. I don’t think I’d keep my Lego in
them (because it’s just inefficient for AFOL sized collections), but they
look perfect to go in (say) the front hall as a place to store shoes or
boots, or in some other room as a cute storage system. I also think they’d
work well for schools, day care centers, etc-- anywhere where there’s a chunk
of Lego for kids to play with that needs a sturdy storage system.
DaveE
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I have the storage and sorting box and it is ok, nothing special, but a lot
cheaper than the other ones. I also have the older one from the 80’s or earily
90’s, held up well. My guess on the price comes from my other life when we
ordered a few things from China. Very very low prices when you buy in quanity
and if you fill up a conex container shipping is very low also. Not what one
would expect. That is why so many things are made in China now. I just bought
a bedroom set and it is very heavy and it was made in China. So I don’t think
that it is all that expensive considering the weight and that the item is more
than keystoned. So for a $5500 bedroom set, the seller here makes around $3000
that leaves 2500 amd if the keystone is more, which it probably is then cut
another $500off and then shipping in the US from the West Coast is probably
around $200 if by rail. Then the profit in China and their internal shipping,
so the production cost goes down even more. And I do not think that wood is a
problem in China. The cost for wood jumped after Katernia here, but China
stayed about the same.
I am sure that it is a good quality product and there are a lot of private
schools that may pick it up, but even I, who is Lego crazy would not spend that
much for the furniture. After all I live in El Paso, not Beverly Hills. (The
sorting storage box is great and at a resonable price, probaby did that to fill
up the shipping container.) John P
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