What should I say ...
Yesterday I went to one of my favourite PM shops looking for some Dino sets. I was surprised to discover a "Dino Exclusive" set with the number 4076. It contains all three "complete" dinosaurus (not the sceleton one), quite a lot of figures (6), ice pieces and a vehicle -- all together for 79.99 EUR. Because sooner or later I wanted all of these animals I decided to take this set, although I was looking for the "original" sets, but I couldn't find them anymore in this shop.
At home I was a little bit surprised that the content was absolutely the same as from the sets
3170,
3191, and
3193. So first thought was, ok seems to be a special "nice price" bundle. I was even more surprise, when I added the single prices of these sets as given on the official PM Germany homepage, which results in a price of
73.27 EUR So I paid 6.72 EUR more just because these sets are packaged in one single big blue box?!?!? Pour PM, what are you doing there? (Or was this a fault by the shop?)
(Ok, what do I learn from this: going on PM shopping tour I should keep all available sets and all official prices in mind ... uh, a tough job)What I also have been wondering, that these three single sets has been no longer available in this shop (ok, for sure, so clever people wouldn't buy the big one when they can directly compare the prices), and also keeping in mind, that when I asked my father to organize these sets, that the shop assistant of another shop told him, that the Dino sets are no longer availble -- but they are still depicted in the official catalog for 2005/2006 (although this hasn't to mean anything, because in this catalog the new forest theme isn't depicted at all, although it is available).
Does anybody now anything about discontinuing the
Dino on Ice ... aehm ...
Dino in Ice theme?