Prices of the sets got removed from my local LEGO Catalogue

[Lego David]

So I recently got the summer 2019 LEGO catalogue, and I was very surprised to discover that the prices for the sets weren't shown in it anymore. Just the set number, the names of the sets, and the age rating, without showing any prices. Why did they do this? And is this only with my local catalogue, or did it also happen elsewhere?

[TeriXeri]

I can only remember prices being shown in some larger 80s catalogs, and later names weren't shown either (during the 90s and never in smaller sized catalogs)

New sets had a yellow brick or star next to the number to indicate if it was a new set for that year, usually with a month of release.

I don't have much experience with early 2000s catalogs, but I do have (Dutch) 2009 and 2018 paper catalogs, names+set numbers are shown, but still no prices.

Edited August 25, 2019 by TeriXeri

[Collector245]

Strange. My catalog does have the prices of the sets.

[deraven]

Haven't received the printed catalog yet for summer, but I have seen them without prices before randomly, though not for a long time now that I can remember.  Would be interesting if someone has the info on why they do that.  I can't imagine it's because they haven't settled on pricing, but maybe it's for a catalog they are going to use across multiple regions and so omit prices rather than having various currencies.  Romania still uses the leu and not Euro, correct?  Maybe they have one printed with Euro and then another printed for distribution to all non-Euro European areas or something?  Still, as to why that would have been a recent change, I don't know!

[TeriXeri]

2 hours ago, deraven said:

Haven't received the printed catalog yet for summer, but I have seen them without prices before randomly, though not for a long time now that I can remember.  Would be interesting if someone has the info on why they do that.  I can't imagine it's because they haven't settled on pricing, but maybe it's for a catalog they are going to use across multiple regions and so omit prices rather than having various currencies.  Romania still uses the leu and not Euro, correct?  Maybe they have one printed with Euro and then another printed for distribution to all non-Euro European areas or something?  Still, as to why that would have been a recent change, I don't know!

The 2009 and 2018 catalogs I have in Dutch and have no prices, neither does the 2nd-2019 one that's online :

https://catalogs.lego.com/BrandCatalog/2hy2019/we/nl/#/

However I also see larger versions of catalogs labeled Autumn, or Christmas for the UK that do show pounds :

https://www.lego.com/en-de/page/static/catalogues (it's the german page but shows UK versions)

NL never had a physical LEGO store yet so might be some explanation.

Edited August 26, 2019 by TeriXeri

[The Island Chronicles]

My latest issue still has the prices. But it says Fall 2019 though fall hasn't come yet. 

Edited August 27, 2019 by pooda

[Lego David]

12 hours ago, deraven said:

Romania still uses the leu and not Euro, correct?

Yep, that is correct. It would be quite a few years before we will start using the euro.

[ks6349]

Where did you get the LEGO catalog? Lego sent to you? Physical booklets or electronic PDF?

Edited August 27, 2019 by ks6349

[The Island Chronicles]

@ks6349 I got mine from the local Lego Store. 

[Collector245]

Mine was sent to me.

[LEGO Historian]

..... and then there is the 1958 Danish Catalog... only 2 sides of 1 page back then.  It was the year they shouldn't have put prices in the pricelist just yet.....  

 

 

 

 

 

[Collector245]

I love bits of history like this. It looks like the prices were blocked out then written again.

[Lego David]

On 8/27/2019 at 9:12 PM, ks6349 said:

Where did you get the LEGO catalog? Lego sent to you? Physical booklets or electronic PDF?

I got it from my local LEGO Store.

[dr_spock]

Does Romanian law require prices to be printed in the catalogue?   Do you have other languages printed in your catalogue?  Maybe post some pictures of your catalogue.

All the recently catalogues for my country have pricing included.

 

 

[Lego David]

On 9/1/2019 at 11:45 PM, dr_spock said:

Does Romanian law require prices to be printed in the catalogue?

I have no idea.

On 9/1/2019 at 11:45 PM, dr_spock said:

Do you have other languages printed in your catalogue? 

No, it's just in Romanian.

 

[skinkfem]

If you're referring to the catalogs you can pick up for free in toy-shops or read on Lego.com (and not the pre-order catalogs), then the Swedish ones hasn't had any prices in them in the last decade or so.

It's my understanding that Lego does not include prices in the catalogs unless it's required by law in that particular country. This way the sellers can set their own prices should they desire, of course nowadays anyone can look the price up online so any differences are unlikely.

US catalogs generally include number of pieces in a set as well while most European generally don't.