Dwarf Mine

shoggoth666 · Post by **shoggoth666** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:35 pm

SOLD OUT once again

Post by **rogue27** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:48 pm

Finally beat the deadline. It also appears that the rendering errors on that page were fixed up.

Lost Viking · Post by **Lost Viking** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:41 pm

The set is still not available in Canada, so I assume that it will come out here soon. I still got a copy of the set when I was in the US.

doc069 · Post by **doc069** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:01 pm

Lost Viking wrote:The set is still not available in Canada, so I assume that it will come out here soon. I still got a copy of the set when I was in the US.

It was available at Zellers, but unlikely there are any sets still in stores.

Lee

FullNelson · Post by **FullNelson** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:28 pm

yes I got my order in the day it sold out sweet!! btw I think it will be back later in the year

doc069 · Post by **doc069** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:51 am

Meat's back on the menu boys - the mine is back on S@H.

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.as ... n=473&d=70

And it is available now.

Lee

Edit:
as of 0715 mountain time - back to "sold out"

Lee

Post by **rogue27** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:41 pm

Well, it certainly is a popular set. My two copies arrived, and I built one last night. Will definitely want more of these some day.

shoggoth666 · Post by **shoggoth666** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:13 pm

doc069 wrote:Meat's back on the menu boys

That was quick sold out S@H USA again!

Brilliant quote, need to make some darth maul headed Uruk's to boss the orcs around at the dwarves mine!

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:36 pm

I understand that there are a lot of people wanting this set, and many others wanting sets just as, or more, popular, but seriously LEGO bump up the production. Looking at the site it's almost like half the sets are sold out or back ordered!

A few years back this was a much smaller problem, now if I want a set I'd have to order it the day it's available, if that would even work. I'm not so sure the production and shipping relocation is working half as well as they would like...

Maybe I should address this in Dear LEGO, but as it pertains to this set heavily, it's just as pertinent here.

RichardAM · Post by **RichardAM** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:03 pm

wunztwice wrote:I understand that there are a lot of people wanting this set, and many others wanting sets just as, or more, popular, but seriously LEGO bump up the production. Looking at the site it's almost like half the sets are sold out or back ordered!

The thing is though, this only seems to be a real problem in the US- looking around all the other countries the set is still readily available, even here in the UK. Most interestingly, it's still a new set in all these places too, so compared to the US problem it is a little surprising there's still plenty of stock.

With the US having had the set released and sold a few weeks ago though, maybe it isn't all that surprising that there's a shortage. Isn't the definitive and simple answer that there's not a lack of sets per se, but rather, an interest from TLG to sell what stock they have to other countries? In this respect it's only fair that these countries finally get the option to purchase a set that's already been released elsewhere.

I'm pretty sure though that seeing this constant status of sold-out, TLG will be focusing on re-stocking their allocation for the US, to meet the demand that is obviously there.

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:27 pm

RichardAM wrote: The thing is though, this only seems to be a real problem in the US- looking around all the other countries the set is still readily available, even here in the UK. Most interestingly, it's still a new set in all these places too, so compared to the US problem it is a little surprising there's still plenty of stock.

With the US having had the set released and sold a few weeks ago though, maybe it isn't all that surprising that there's a shortage. Isn't the definitive and simple answer that there's not a lack of sets per se, but rather, an interest from TLG to sell what stock they have to other countries? In this respect it's only fair that these countries finally get the option to purchase a set that's already been released elsewhere.

I fully agree that all the other countries should have full and ready access to the set. My point (perhaps not well put before) is that recently there seems to be an awful lot of sets on backorder and sold out status, maybe LEGO needs to step up production. There are certain themes which just seem to need more of certain sets.

If LEGO were to anticipate this on sets that were sure to sell quickly there would be less backorder, and more ordering from the company.

cagri · Post by **cagri** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:34 pm

I was thinking about ordering the mine next month but would it be sold out by that time? In Germany?

greendragon420 · Post by **greendragon420** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:06 pm

i noticed on lego shop at home that they raised the price of the dwarf mine to 59.99 usd dispite the fact that its been sold out for a couple weeks ....not cool

menono · Post by **menono** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:05 pm

Also under that vein, I went to Target the other day and found a lone Dwarve's Mine hiding in the back. It was clearly a Christmas return judging by the traces of wrapping paper. I rung it up and it came to $59.99!

The customer service lady told me it was on "sale" until just recently.

Post by **rogue27** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:03 pm

Supply and demand. Instead of increasing supply, TLC chose to increase the price to reduce demand.

They took action as we all hoped. Just not the action we expected. Probably a smart business move though.