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I don't think I am more susceptible to the Ikea Effect than the average person. Then again, I don't see much value in built sets, whether I built them or not. Looking at the experiments that were used to test the Ikea Effect, I do believe that if I was given the option to buy either a pre-built Lego set or one that I built myself, I would slightly over-value the one that I built. However, I would value BOTH of these far lower than an unbuilt set. I've bought sets at retail price to build them. But if I built it without buying it, and then was asked if I wanted to buy it, I'd probably only be willing to pay 50% or less.

I would if I could. I don't have friends in Europe.

I can understand the fact that they want to be able to price things differently in each market, so they wouldn't ship directly from U.S. S@H to Norway, for example. But if I got a mailbox in Germany, it's weird that they wouldn't ship to that -- there can't be a lot of people who would want to do this (the shipping would eat up any price differences.) Anyway, for me it isn't so much the price (since S@H in Canada has the best worldwide price most of the time), but the product availability.

They just sometimes get stuff I can't get in Canada. Right now, for instance, the collectible soccer minifigs.

Has anyone tried to order from S@H in a different country? How did you make it work? I am in Canada but would like to order from the site in Germany or the UK. Do I need a freight forwarding service?

You can have two plates back-to-back with no gap using lever handles. The plates need to be at least 3x4, but 4x4 or larger is better. The lever handles get wedged to the bottom of the plates so that the circle on the lever fits between two tubes. -- Marc.