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    #32
    displaced dub
    Registered Users Posts: 766 ✭✭✭displaced dub


    Hi All

    i ordered for the first time via the lego website as anything i want to get etc i usually just buy in smyths or when i am away on business

    do any of you know who they use as a courier, i tracked the ghostbusters HQ and i find the tracking info really poor.


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    #33
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Fantastic offer Spocker, but ended up using the wife's account. Thanks again.

    A wife having her own Lego.com acount. Thats my kind of wife.


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    #34
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    displaced dub wrote: »
    Hi All

    i ordered for the first time via the lego website as anything i want to get etc i usually just buy in smyths or when i am away on business

    do any of you know who they use as a courier, i tracked the ghostbusters HQ and i find the tracking info really poor.

    Always been An post for me. Tracking is awful alright. Waiting on a brick bank atm and for the first time I'm slightly concerned as to its whereabouts.


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    #35
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Fantastic offer Spocker, but ended up using the wife's account. Thanks again.

    With me it's kind of a necessity. Pretty much every gift I get is from Lego.


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    #36
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭Spocker


    displaced dub wrote: »
    Hi All

    i ordered for the first time via the lego website as anything i want to get etc i usually just buy in smyths or when i am away on business

    do any of you know who they use as a courier, i tracked the ghostbusters HQ and i find the tracking info really poor.

    They dispatch via DHL in Germany, and theres usually a couple of days delay after leaving Koln before it shows up on the An Post website. Once An Post have it you'll usually get it next business day


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    #37
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    Hamleys in Dundrum have 4 or 5 ecto 1s still for €67 - in the display case to the right of the checkouts.


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    #38
    qwertz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭qwertz


    Less than €60 in nimble fingers in Stillorgan.


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    #39
    NinjaTruncs
    Registered Users Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    Ecto-1 is still available from Lego.com and is only €49.99, spend €55 or more for free shipping and a free gift. Hamleys usually as "only" 20% more expensive than RRP, they must think Ecto-1 is worth more of a mark-up.

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    #40
    Rhyme
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rhyme


    NinjaTruncs wrote: »
    Ecto-1 is still available from Lego.com and is only €49.99, spend €55 or more for free shipping and a free gift. Hamleys usually as "only" 20% more expensive than RRP, they must think Ecto-1 is worth more of a mark-up.

    Hamley's in London is the same. A good 15-20% more expensive for Lego than other shops.

    I don't understand why any shops sell Lego for more than a few euro more than the online store. The convenience of being able to take home Lego right away rather than waiting a few days for a delivery is worth a bit I'll grant but that much? Ridiculous.

    Then again, I've seen people sell Lego on Adverts for more than the RRP when the set is still available in the shops so that sort of behaviour (idiocy) isn't localised to large shops.


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    #41
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    Rhyme wrote: »
    Hamley's in London is the same. A good 15-20% more expensive for Lego than other shops.

    I don't understand why any shops sell Lego for more than a few euro more than the online store. The convenience of being able to take home Lego right away rather than waiting a few days for a delivery is worth a bit I'll grant but that much? Ridiculous.

    Then again, I've seen people sell Lego on Adverts for more than the RRP when the set is still available in the shops so that sort of behaviour (idiocy) isn't localised to large shops.

    Seen someone had minifigs including a CMF series 15 up there for €8 each earlier...Lego on adverts has gone to pots but I digress!


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    #42
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    qwertz wrote: »
    Less than €60 in nimble fingers in Stillorgan.

    Do they have any other older retired sets?


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    #43
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    NinjaTruncs wrote: »
    Ecto-1 is still available from Lego.com and is only €49.99, spend €55 or more for free shipping and a free gift. Hamleys usually as "only" 20% more expensive than RRP, they must think Ecto-1 is worth more of a mark-up.

    I thought it was retired - isn't under the ghostbusters section :cool:

    Hamleys prices are a joke agreed - deep sea salvage was €120 and only €80 in smyths :eek:


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    Necronomicon
    Registered Users Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    Rhyme wrote: »
    Hamley's in London is the same. A good 15-20% more expensive for Lego than other shops.

    I don't understand why any shops sell Lego for more than a few euro more than the online store. The convenience of being able to take home Lego right away rather than waiting a few days for a delivery is worth a bit I'll grant but that much? Ridiculous.

    Then again, I've seen people sell Lego on Adverts for more than the RRP when the set is still available in the shops so that sort of behaviour (idiocy) isn't localised to large shops.

    Footfall in Hamleys is ludicrous, and I'd wager that the vast majority of people who go in there don't have a clue how Lego should be priced.


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    #45
    Rhyme
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rhyme


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Seen someone had minifigs including a CMF series 15 up there for €8 each earlier...Lego on adverts has gone to pots but I digress!

    I imagine those sellers sitting wearing hideously expensive suits believing themselves to be geniuses for the understanding that the stock market logic of buying low and selling high somehow applies to selling Lego to someone one town over.
    Necronomicon wrote: »
    Footfall in Hamleys is ludicrous, and I'd wager that the vast majority of people who go in there don't have a clue how Lego should be priced.

    That was my thought as well. Almost like political loyalty :) "we've always voted for Party X, they shaft us every time but it's tradition and we don't know any better". The temperature in the store, the hundreds of other customers, the try-out sections and the manic employees would make any parent want to buy something and get out.


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    #46
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    qwertz wrote: »
    Less than €60 in nimble fingers in Stillorgan.

    Thanks - picked up bennys spaceship there today


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    #47
    djkeogh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭djkeogh


    bought this from ToyRus in UK the other day. £274 and they had a £20 off deal so was £254 delivered to Parcel Motel (oversize package pickup). Good saving of €70 - €80 off store prices here if anyone is interested.


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