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Offline Baron Marshall

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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #30 on: August 27, 2020, 14:38:38 »
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #31 on: August 27, 2020, 15:46:11 »
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2020, 17:08:59 »
Quote from: StJohn on August 27, 2020, 12:02:20
Judging by what hitherto has become known, the big change appears to be the inclusion of figures in DS sets of vehicles or buildings. That is radically new. It presumably means that from 2021 DS will no long serve to complement sets from the main catalogue

I think this is possibly true, but I think the inclusion of the figures into the sets is more to do with changes to how people shop than a conscious thought about the overall direction.

Obviously a lot of the DS sets have been consciously add-ons to themes, but there's also sets that don't really have a home elsewhere, and sets that clearly they just need to try and get rid of.

People on here are very aware of the difference between the DS sets, and the 'main range' but is the average buyer? I don't see any particular rational reason that the pirate/princess children's bedrooms are in the DS range rather than the regular range and featured with one of the dolls houses - and if I go to buy one of the houses on their website it will suggest a bunch of sets that as DS sets. So maybe the thinking is just that people think it's odd when a set doesn't include a figure.

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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2020, 17:57:01 »
Quote from: Oliver on August 27, 2020, 17:08:59
People on here are very aware of the difference between the DS sets, and the 'main range' but is the average buyer?

They're clueless... and then complain that it has no box.....
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2020, 19:34:11 »
Regarding Playmobil not caring about their back catalog - yes...but then it seems like we are getting a constant stream of reused parts - some of them quite ancient like the head scarf on the Scooby-Doo ghosts fortune teller. Seems like if the mold will still go in the machine they are willing to use it somewhere.
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2020, 19:51:46 »
Well.. we have to admit these weird add ons did one thing : got some life here :P
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2020, 05:41:35 »
I feel like they're making sets from the spare parts boxes.

A photo of the DS packaging on the website would help avoid the "no box" disappointment. They have packaging photos for other sets on the website. A lot of the DS sets no longer look like add-ons, so clarification would help (because how many people actually read the "no box" disclaimer?).
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #37 on: August 28, 2020, 07:29:44 »
Quote from: Ismene on August 28, 2020, 05:41:35
I feel like they're making sets from the spare parts boxes.

Agree. But how are THEIR spare parts boxes more limited than ours?!


Quote from: Ismene on August 28, 2020, 05:41:35
A photo of the DS packaging on the website would help avoid the "no box" disappointment. They have packaging photos for other sets on the website. A lot of the DS sets no longer look like add-ons, so clarification would help (because how many people actually read the "no box" disclaimer?).

Well, regarding that, I believe that if people can't be bothered to read, it's really their problem.
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #38 on: August 28, 2020, 08:17:54 »
Quote from: tahra on August 28, 2020, 07:29:44
Agree. But how are THEIR spare parts boxes more limited than ours?!

Because they need multiples on hand for the sets? I just wish they'd magically dig up the old parts we're looking for.

Quote from: tahra on August 28, 2020, 07:29:44
Well, regarding that, I believe that if people can't be bothered to read, it's really their problem.

But it becomes Playmobil's problem if their customer service queue becomes clogged with "Where's my box?" inquiries. It saves time to add the extra photo and assume that buyers will, at most, skim descriptions.
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Re: DS 2021
« Reply #39 on: August 28, 2020, 09:27:38 »
Quote from: Ismene on August 28, 2020, 08:17:54
But it becomes Playmobil's problem if their customer service queue becomes clogged with "Where's my box?" inquiries. It saves time to add the extra photo and assume that buyers will, at most, skim descriptions.

Not an issue for iberia, when usually you get the immediate polite  (auto) reply from the mail server. Then, IF you're lucky, you get a mail in spanish with "please send the reference list".. whatever it was you asked.

And after that... good luck.  I spent YEARS trying to get them to fix the tax number idiocy. Nobody gave a darn, and ended up just being ignored.  If it wasn't playmobil (and so a must), I would NEVER EVER EVER even get to register in the darn site, after the tax number stupidity stopped me. I wouldn't even bother to ask about it once...

 >:( :'(

I'll shut up about this now. I'm already furious again. And sad.
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