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| | | Author: | Poncke  | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 13:03 | | Subject: | RRP | | Viewed: | 133 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| Can someone explain RRP to me?
Is the price on the LEGO website RRP?
Is see, in Ireland, that some online stores use an RRP that is 5-10 euro higher
than LEGO Ireland.
It is frustrating because it is confusing or misleading. Example: Set cost 50
euro on LEGO, advertised on random website for 45 discounted from 55. I think,
nice 10 euro off, but its 5 euro off.
Where do these webshops get their RRP from?
Thanks
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Poncke writes:
| | Can someone explain RRP to me?
Is the price on the LEGO website RRP?
Is see, in Ireland, that some online stores use an RRP that is 5-10 euro higher
than LEGO Ireland.
It is frustrating because it is confusing or misleading. Example: Set cost 50
euro on LEGO, advertised on random website for 45 discounted from 55. I think,
nice 10 euro off, but its 5 euro off.
Where do these webshops get their RRP from?
Thanks
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The price at which a set is sold in a shop is not the RRP, it’s just the-price-it’s-sold-in-the-shop,
period.
First R of RRP is for Recommended, not for Mandatory, and it’s only an indication
given to sellers by the vendor. We sort of know it because LEGO also sells directly
on their website and in their shops and we therefore conclude that LEGO’s price
is the price they tell sellers the set should be sold. But shops decide at what
price they sell.
If you don’t want to be confused, or rather fooled, by these fakish discounts,
you need to learn which shops tend to mark up their initial prices (relatively
to LEGO and other shops’ pricing).
Some shops even have a tendency to have “initial” prices that are anything but
“initial”: they never sold at this price, it’s just to make the discounts seem
more interesting.
This is bordering illegal or at least very shady.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 14:34 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO, Poncke writes:
| | Can someone explain RRP to me?
Is the price on the LEGO website RRP?
Is see, in Ireland, that some online stores use an RRP that is 5-10 euro higher
than LEGO Ireland.
It is frustrating because it is confusing or misleading. Example: Set cost 50
euro on LEGO, advertised on random website for 45 discounted from 55. I think,
nice 10 euro off, but its 5 euro off.
Where do these webshops get their RRP from?
Thanks
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The price at which a set is sold in a shop is not the RRP, it’s just the-price-it’s-sold-in-the-shop,
period.
First R of RRP is for Recommended, not for Mandatory, and it’s only an indication
given to sellers by the vendor. We sort of know it because LEGO also sells directly
on their website and in their shops and we therefore conclude that LEGO’s price
is the price they tell sellers the set should be sold. But shops decide at what
price they sell.
If you don’t want to be confused, or rather fooled, by these fakish discounts,
you need to learn which shops tend to mark up their initial prices (relatively
to LEGO and other shops’ pricing).
Some shops even have a tendency to have “initial” prices that are anything but
“initial”: they never sold at this price, it’s just to make the discounts seem
more interesting.
This is bordering illegal or at least very shady.
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I know what RRP means, but they put RRP next to the price, so the RRP differs
between sites. How is that possible? RRP comes from LEGO, so it should be the
same on every site. You can't have the same set have several different RRPs.
Set xxxxx website one RRP 50 euro, website two RRP 55 euro
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 14:37 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| Creative selling technique ? 
In LEGO, Poncke writes:
| | In LEGO, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO, Poncke writes:
| | Can someone explain RRP to me?
Is the price on the LEGO website RRP?
Is see, in Ireland, that some online stores use an RRP that is 5-10 euro higher
than LEGO Ireland.
It is frustrating because it is confusing or misleading. Example: Set cost 50
euro on LEGO, advertised on random website for 45 discounted from 55. I think,
nice 10 euro off, but its 5 euro off.
Where do these webshops get their RRP from?
Thanks
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The price at which a set is sold in a shop is not the RRP, it’s just the-price-it’s-sold-in-the-shop,
period.
First R of RRP is for Recommended, not for Mandatory, and it’s only an indication
given to sellers by the vendor. We sort of know it because LEGO also sells directly
on their website and in their shops and we therefore conclude that LEGO’s price
is the price they tell sellers the set should be sold. But shops decide at what
price they sell.
If you don’t want to be confused, or rather fooled, by these fakish discounts,
you need to learn which shops tend to mark up their initial prices (relatively
to LEGO and other shops’ pricing).
Some shops even have a tendency to have “initial” prices that are anything but
“initial”: they never sold at this price, it’s just to make the discounts seem
more interesting.
This is bordering illegal or at least very shady.
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I know what RRP means, but they put RRP next to the price, so the RRP differs
between sites. How is that possible? RRP comes from LEGO, so it should be the
same on every site. You can't have the same set have several different RRPs.
Set xxxxx website one RRP 50 euro, website two RRP 55 euro
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 14:44 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Poncke writes:
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I know what RRP means, but they put RRP next to the price, so the RRP differs
between sites. How is that possible? RRP comes from LEGO, so it should be the
same on every site. You can't have the same set have several different RRPs.
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Yes, you can:
1. if the stores are not based in the same country,
2. if the stores are not buying directly from LEGO / are not both buying from
the same distributor.
Also, once again, we don’t know what their supplier tells them, we only infer
it. Maybe their supplier tells something to some sellers and another thing to
others, depending on other factors (brick & mortar vs. web only, size…).
Maybe they give ranges….
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| | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 16:35 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Poncke writes:
| | It is frustrating because it is confusing or misleading. Example: Set cost 50
euro on LEGO, advertised on random website for 45 discounted from 55. I think,
nice 10 euro off, but its 5 euro off.
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If I recall correctly, this is against the law starting next year. If you spot
any such stores doing that, you can let them know. From 2022, EU businesses may
only advertise a price discount if the "original" price truly was the original
price they were selling it for for at least a month before the discount. (It's
a Dutch law but if I'm not mistaken it's from a EU directive)
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 16:48 | | Subject: | Re: RRP | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Teup writes:
| | If I recall correctly, this is against the law starting next year. If you spot
any such stores doing that, you can let them know. From 2022, EU businesses may
only advertise a price discount if the "original" price truly was the original
price they were selling it for for at least a month before the discount. (It's
a Dutch law but if I'm not mistaken it's from a EU directive)
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Excellent news if true.
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