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Re: Lets Vote
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lugnet.western
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Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:58:29 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> In lugnet.western, David Little writes:
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> > > > The Native American sets, Love em? or leave em?
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> > > Kinda boring (not enough building possibilities in primitives living in the
> > > desert Southwest), too expensive, but nice for build-and-display.
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> > Not really that expensive. You can find rapid river valley for just over
> > $30. Lots of good pieces for the value if you ask me.
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> Sure, $30 for a set with 373 pieces is a pretty good price. But that's about
> a 50% discount from the original pricing for the RRV. Using the .10/piece
> pricing target, this set should have retailed for about $35-$40. Instead, it
> was $73 in the S@H catalog, which would have been about $65 on the toystore
> shelf. Definitely not a good value.
Though the price isn't unexpected when you consider the baseplates,
BURPs, teepees, and the handfull of other large pieces.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) Maybe. I'm not in a position to do a price breakdown on it right now. Teepees shouldn't be that expensive -- cloth is cheap. Baseplates and BURPs are pricey. And the canoe. Does the RRV have a greater percentage of large pieces than a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.western)
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| (...) Sure, $30 for a set with 373 pieces is a pretty good price. But that's about a 50% discount from the original pricing for the RRV. Using the .10/piece pricing target, this set should have retailed for about $35-$40. Instead, it was $73 in the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.western)
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