Toys - Prisma - Amazon - etc.

harryc · Post by **harryc** » Wed May 21, 2014 10:11 pm

I was today in Prisma Olari looking for birthday present for a 5 year old.

Selection good - but OMG - the prices! I was one buying from Amazon UK and paying FI VAT!) - does anyone know of a UK source sending to Finland with good prices and reasonable shipping costs? (or perhgaps someone has heard of AZ re-instating their free shipping but with a higher minimum?)

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riku2 · Post by **riku2** » Thu May 22, 2014 3:25 pm

amazon.de have different shipping prices. the amazon uk ones can be somewhat ridiculous now (adding 30% to the price for example)

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Thu May 22, 2014 5:48 pm

riku2 wrote:amazon.de have different shipping prices. the amazon uk ones can be somewhat ridiculous now (adding 30% to the price for example)

Cheap bastards! Buy stuff that costs more!

harryc · Post by **harryc** » Thu May 22, 2014 6:33 pm

Thanks but not much joy

Jedi Interceptor Lego

UK: pds 16.53 7.15 23.68

De: 26.04 8.40 34.44

exch rate 1.24

bloody FI-Verkkokauppa.com 44€ plus shipping !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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amazing how AZ UK could just throw all that business away! (even though still can pay 40% shipping and beat Finnish prices by quite much - maybe AZ is doing the 'Bauhaus maneuver' - when they first came to Finland they were CHEAP - then they saw they could raise prices by quite much and STILL be cheaper than K-Rauta)

harryc · Post by **harryc** » Sun May 25, 2014 5:26 pm

Thanks - but something tells me you don't have a 4,5 yr old in your environment that can recite the names of about 30 Star wars characters.

Lego has cleverly specialized and individualized their products to have parts associated with certain themes and charcters.

This particular kid loves to build all kinds of generic ex-temp stuff with the standard parts - and have hundreds and hundreds of those from 2 generations of builders. - but is also hooked on the 'themes.'

btw - the patent may be broken but the experience of trying a fair number of Nrand X rip-offs have proved these X people have a lot to learn about 'standardization' - seems it doesn't need more that a tenth of a mm to make stuff incompatible - and even including trying to build X's OWN product.

Liam1 · Post by **Liam1** » Sun May 25, 2014 10:30 pm

Toys R US, Tarjoustalo and even Hong Kong can have discounted toys. However they tend to be on things that have been out a while.
Other than that Stockmann, Antilla and BR do spot discounts(or send vouchers) but you haveto be lucky

I'm afraid most of the time it is just another example of "Rip off Finland" and you either wait until you go home or stump up!

harryc · Post by **harryc** » Mon May 26, 2014 10:22 pm

thanks - yes I've seen the discounted banged up boxes at TT and HK. But you never know how important the missing pieces are

TarjTalo btw is crazy place - it is always filled with a zillion big yellow discount(?) placards - 50% are products with prices 10% HIGHER than any recent offer you've seen recently, 45% with savings of maybe 5-10% on other best offers - and 5% with decent offers - but sorry - LOPPU!

The thing is that one needs to be an expert price follower to chuck out the phony 'yellows' - it's clear people need to really know prices in Finland - and probably anywhere - but the phony 'shouting' with phony prices does seems to result in TT losing credibility for the most part.

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