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Re: Lets Vote
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lugnet.western
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:22:48 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Frank Filz wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
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> Though the price isn't unexpected when you consider the baseplates,
> BURPs, teepees, and the handfull of other large pieces.
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 Neptune's
Discovery Laboratory or a Pharoahs Forbidden Ruins?
Steve
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| (...) Though the price isn't unexpected when you consider the baseplates, BURPs, teepees, and the handfull of other large pieces. (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.western)
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