I'm doing a study for school and am looking for prices of lego bricks around the world. I'm in the US, but am finding it difficult to Google into prices in other countries.
If you would, could you tell me how much it costs to buy any one of these sets in your country: LEGO Basic Bricks, 280 pieces, Mfg #5574 , LEGO Basic Bricks, Large, 500 pieces, Mfg #5578 LEGO Brick Box, 221 pieces, Mfg #6161
I can of course get prices for other countries off of the Lego website, but that won't do: its only US, Canada, and western EU, and plus I'd prefer to know what you might pay if you bought it locally.
Looks like you want to buy your legos in Denmark, Sweden, or the Czech Republic. The EU area appears to pay more than we do in the US for the same box.
Something seems fishy with your numbers. SEK 299.50 is EUR 32.26 which is not that far away from the other EUR values, still Sweden gets -66.4 while Ireland gets +191.7!? What's the definition of this over/under value?
The BigMac index gives Sweden +42, EU +22, Denmark +49, ie. all of them plus.
In the US you pay 7.33 BigMacs for the box of Lego, in Sweden we pay 9.08 BigMacs for the same box (Denmark 9.00, EUR countries 8.19 - 9.83). How can you say:
You definitely don't want to buy Lego in Sweden, the price is twice the US price, I don't know about the wages, and the taxes are much higher. Perhaps you should have an index "how many hours of actual work to be able to buy the Lego box" instead?
Thanks for your comment. I indeed found an error in my calculations. These should be more accurate and better match your intuition. 100% over means that in the subject country, one pays twice the price in the US. -10% would mean that one would pay 10% less than in the US.
(Sorry for the formatting, I'm posting this through a web client that uses a proportional font)
US$ Legos Over/Under- Price in May 18 equivalent implied valuation of foreign Exchange of foreign exchange the foreign Location (currency) currency rate price rate currency (fx) S($/fx) (US$) ($/fx) (%)
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---------- ----------- -------------- Australia (AUD) 49.99 0.9540
So, yes, Sweden and Denmark pay about twice what we in the US pay, and, yes, the U.S. seems to be the cheapest place to buy Legos. I'm sorry that I was unable to find retail pricing for the exact same box in Asian countries, that might have been interesting.
In any case, if you're in the U.S. and you know a child in Brazil, help 'em out with some Legos.
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