LEGO Price Increase- Staggering!

BusMadDave

Thanks for the links, will try.

JBH, I am not sure why or what point you're trying to make? Are you saying that if something is advertised at one price and then a company decides to ignore that advertised price and double it, that's okay and fair?

I appreciate the black and white argument about if you don't like ti, don't do it etc., but it hardly solves anything does it? In the end if you abide by any principles you'd end up naked and starving while all and sundry tried to rip you off and you have none of it by opting out of the world........it doesn't help.

And I admit Lego maybe perfectly within their rights to do this (part of the point of the post was to check if that is true) but it doesn't make it good business as, speaking for myself, it just smacks of a rip-off.

Flyboy152

BusMadDave wrote: »

Thanks for the links, will try.

JBH, I am not sure why or what point you're trying to make? Are you saying that if something is advertised at one price and then a company decides to ignore that advertised price and double it, that's okay and fair?

I appreciate the black and white argument about if you don't like ti, don't do it etc., but it hardly solves anything does it? In the end if you abide by any principles you'd end up naked and starving while all and sundry tried to rip you off and you have none of it by opting out of the world........it doesn't help.

And I admit Lego maybe perfectly within their rights to do this (part of the point of the post was to check if that is true) but it doesn't make it good business as, speaking for myself, it just smacks of a rip-off.

Recent legislation has gone someway to protect consumers from this sort of practice.

vyle

I expect the catalogue will have some small print somewhere saying, 'Prices are valid at time of printing, but are subject to change without notice.'

gordikin

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Recent legislation has gone someway to protect consumers from this sort of practice.

That would be?

Nilrem

vyle wrote: »

I expect the catalogue will have some small print somewhere saying, 'Prices are valid at time of printing, but are subject to change without notice.'

Aye, and there is a very good chance that the catalogue will have been set out/written well in advance of it being published, let alone the items being available to the consumer.
So the lead time on the catalogue being prepared compared to the release of the product might be 6+ months with ease.
IIRC when I was younger the catalogue would have an entire years worth of releases, so some items were listed about 10-11 months in advance, which would have meant they'd been working on it for anything up to 15+ months in advance of some items release date.

That's ignoring the fact the catalogue might have had errors in it either due to things like wrong conversion from one areas currency to another's, or simple typos.

Flyboy152

gordikin wrote: »

That would be?

Now, bear in mind, I wrote "has gone someway," in the context of a general point. For example, the recent EU regulations on pricing of airline tickets.

DCFC79

I dont see the rip off, re the price of the arena does it say anywhere in the catalogue something like "prices are subject to change", lego are a business after all and maybe they realised that the 9.99 price was to low so upped it

Jeff_Bridges_hair

BusMadDave wrote: »

Thanks for the links, will try.

JBH, I am not sure why or what point you're trying to make? Are you saying that if something is advertised at one price and then a company decides to ignore that advertised price and double it, that's okay and fair?

I appreciate the black and white argument about if you don't like ti, don't do it etc., but it hardly solves anything does it? In the end if you abide by any principles you'd end up naked and starving while all and sundry tried to rip you off and you have none of it by opting out of the world........it doesn't help.

And I admit Lego maybe perfectly within their rights to do this (part of the point of the post was to check if that is true) but it doesn't make it good business as, speaking for myself, it just smacks of a rip-off.

I didnt say anything was fair or not did I?
The company advertised a pre-release price in its catalogue way back in January and they were probably printed around October time i should imagine for the trade fairs in the run up to Christmas too. Since then the price of manufacture and transportation has gone up - so what do Lego do? Sell at a smaller margin and possibly a loss? Retract the product completely or set a new price for when it comes to market?