jonty14 Posted October 25, 2019 Posted October 25, 2019 I noticed the Lego shop in Saarbrücken Germany Sold the large cups for 17 Euros. A few days later I was in the Lego shop at the MetroCentre in Gateshead UK where the large cups were £11. That is quite a difference in price. About 5 Euros cheaper in the UK. Probably due the pound sinking in value. I never thought I saw the day that Lego is cheaper in the UK than Germany. Quote
MAB Posted October 25, 2019 Posted October 25, 2019 (edited) 36 minutes ago, jonty14 said: I noticed the Lego shop in Saarbrücken Germany Sold the large cups for 17 Euros. A few days later I was in the Lego shop at the MetroCentre in Gateshead UK where the large cups were £11. That is quite a difference in price. About 5 Euros cheaper in the UK. Probably due the pound sinking in value. I never thought I saw the day that Lego is cheaper in the UK than Germany. Really? They are £11.99 in other UK stores. LEGO is frequently cheaper in the UK than Germany, especially as we have quite a lot of competition between stores and so get decent discounts. I rarely pay more than 70% of RRP for any normal retail sets (ones that are not exclusive to a particular store). LEGO has been adjusting prices, for example the new Dinosaur fossil set is £54.99 / $59.99 / 59.99€ - so here our £55 set should cost you Eur 62.70. You get it cheaper. Whereas 75229 (Death Star Escape) is £24.99, 29.99€, our £25 set should cost you Eur 28.50. We get it cheaper. Plus the realistic price is probably £15-18 due to many sales. I don't know what the realistic sale price is in Germany to compare to though. I think this is more to do with LEGO's use of fixed price numbers and charging what they can get away with charging rather than trying to make prices "fair" across different countries. However, back to the PAB cup. If they tried to increase the price from £12.00 to £14.50 (equivalent to your Eur 17), then they would simply not sell as well. To make such a price jump on an existing product is hard. As for the GBP sinking, it depends what time-frame you look at it. GBP:Eur has been relatively constant for the past two years. It has risen if you look at only 2 months. If you compare it to ten years ago, it is about the same value. If you compare to five years ago, it has dropped. But then you could just say it peaked in the middle of the decade when the Euro lost significant value in the 2013-15 period. https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=EUR&view=10Y Edited October 25, 2019 by MAB Quote
TeriXeri Posted October 26, 2019 Posted October 26, 2019 (edited) I haven't visited the NL store yet (Utrecht) , so if someone has info on that, would be nice to know the pick-a-brick price. Amsterdam store opening later this year as well. Edited October 26, 2019 by TeriXeri Quote
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