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Re: Lets Vote
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Date: 
Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:58:29 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:

In lugnet.western, David Little writes:

The Native American sets, Love em? or leave em?

Kinda boring (not enough building possibilities in primitives living in the
desert Southwest), too expensive, but nice for build-and-display.

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.

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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