[AccessD] OT: LEGO Mindstorms NXT

Shamil Salakhetdinov shamil at users.mns.ru
Thu Dec 13 06:34:22 CST 2007


Hi All,

It's not Friday yet but the subject OT issue is rather urgent here :)

My minor son (6.5 year old) has just finished his letter to Santa in which
he asks to bring him the LEGO Mindstorms as a Christmas/New year Eve gift...

The fact is that when you check on 

http://shop.lego.com/Product/Default.aspx?p=8527 

you'll find that this product is only available in United States if ordering
it from this site...

There is another option here in Russia:

http://www.lego-go.ru/model_details.asp?id=1631 

But the price for this option = 14900 roubles =~ 600USD is almost three
times higher than the price there in United States...

So, I decided to order the subj on Amazon com - I will have to pay some
shipping costs and probably Russian customs will also charge me here with
some custom duties but the issue isn't these money but the fact that I'm not
sure that LEGO Mindstorms ordered on Amazon.com will come safely to Russia -
I mean that there will be no some parts broken etc. - broken while traveling
here...

I have a Shengen Visa and for me it would take a couple/three hours to get
to Finland by car - and here is my question:

- if there is somebody from Finland here in AccessD and you have time could
you check is that subject LEGO Mindstorms NXT toy available in Finland toy's
shops - then I will drive there too purchase it (I expect the price will be
in EURO - around EUR250-300...

Another option for me could be Estonia or Sweden which are also not that
far...

Now you can see how simple on your side of the Globe things as ordering LEGO
Mindstorms become a "hard-core" and expensive and tasks here...

I just don't want to pay three times more money for the shop reselling LEGO
Mindstorms here for ~USD600 - I'd better spend more money traveling to
Finland, Estonia or Sweden to get purchased LEGO for my son - that promise
to be some fun :) 

Maybe I will even have to reach Laplandia (it's not that fat from here) and
to meet "real" Santa to make this wish of my minor son to come true this
Christmas/New Year Eve...

Thank you,

--
Shamil
 




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