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Re: Lego Shop at Home
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Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:15:59 GMT
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"Ian Power" <ian@codemaster.com.au> wrote in message
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> I have just been browsing the Lego Shop @ Home site (I live in Australia),
> and
> the Power Functions elements are now available. Great! $7.99 for the XL
> Motor,
> and $9.99 for the regular motor (that's a bit odd, but anyway). For under
> $30
> AUD I can get two XL motors and a regular motor to go with my power pack
> and
> existing regular motor!
You can indeed get small amounts of stuff for a reasonable cost.
> But here's the catch: Lego want $30 AUD for shipping! Orders under $25 get
> a $25
> AUD postage fee. This is crazy! If I ordered a $10 item, I'd pay more
> postage
> than the item is worth!!
Not really, they use a delivery method that charges a set, somewhat
proportional cost depending on your order total - regardless of resulting
box size - which maxes out at a relatively small amount compared to what you
could order at one time. It is therefore to your advantage to order the
largest possible amount of LEGO items at one time, EG $250.01+ and pay
either $45 Standard Shipping, or $100 Express Shipping, for an order amount
that can go up past a whopping $2000 worth of LEGO sets/parts. I know this
would tend to max out the credit cards a little due to the amount of stuff
you'd be ordering, but you could pool your delivery costs with other people
from your local area and have one person or a few people deliver the
individual parts of the package locally.
Let's say, for instance, that you want 5 Technic bulldozers, and 5 Indianna
Jones classic collections at one time, well with this system of S@H shipping
rates, there is nothing stopping you from doing it. I don't know what it
maxes out at for the amount that can be in one order at one time but a while
back, it used to be the $2,500 mark. I think, though, it has recently
changed.
> Obviously these parts are being shipped from somewhere outsite Australia.
I believe the Australian distribution is handled through the UK, or directly
from somewhere in Denmark. I'm not sure though, perhaps you can read your
order invoice and tell us where it's coming from for you.
> I have sent Lego an email, but to no avail. It appears I would be better
> off
> ordering these parts from a US BrickLink site...
They would probably point out much of what I have described here, that their
costs don't depend on price of order, it depends on price of shipping a set
sized package. They appear to use a distribution style of shipping, where
packages do not travel by weight or size, but relative up to a certain point
by amount of goods ordered.
> C'mon Lego, get your act together!!! I know I would buy from the site IF
> their
> postage was reasonable! The amount is extremely excessive. Any of my
> co-aussie
> Lego fans out there hear me?
It may not at first glance appear reasonable, but please bear in mind that
this is not 'postage' as you know it. They use a somewhat different means
of freight carriage, which is not so dependent on the amount or weight of
stuff ordered but the cost of goods.
NOTE: In some cases the distribution system in Australia seems to use
Australia Post as the final delivery stage. I know that up here in Far
North Queensland, that nearly all of my S@H orders have come through
delivery by Australia Post. Speaking to Australia Post about why this is
so, revealed that they get contracts to deliver merchandise like this
through tendering processes, and usually whoever the tenderer likes wins the
delivery contract, regardless of actual costs involved in doing it, that's
what the contracted-to company must deliver the item to us for, if they
tendered to do it for $x dollar amount that's what we get charged no matter
where in Australia it winds up. Of course there are tender contracts for
each stage of the journey, I have no idea what it must cost S@H to deliver
these items all the way from the UK, but I know it's done for the amount
specified and usually will arrive within the given timeframe listed on the
S@H site.
Of course it's entirely possible that in different parts of Australia a
company other than Australia Post would deliver your packages to you. But
in most cases they choose companies willing to deliver to street addresses,
for some strange reason they cannot allow deliveries to a PO box.
As I stated above, the more you can afford to order at one time, the more to
your advantage it becomes for you and anyone who could combine their order
with you.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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| (...) I understand the point you've made - buy a bunch and save on postage. This is the same for most online purchases. Not a new concept by any means. However, when you live in a small country town where the number of Lego enthusiasts singularly (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) All orders to the UK come straight from Denmark so I would think that ones to Australia would too. Tim (17 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic)
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