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Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:01:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Mark Papenfuss writes:
> > The difference is collossal. One is a company acting opportunistically to
> > dump obsolete stock and the other is a community of like-minded peers
> > sharing information.
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> WHOA! Are you honestly trying to tell us that:
> A) Lego would not have been able to sell these sets outside of
> Lugnet? I very much doubt they would have any prob selling these
> sets elsewhere.
> B) The Fort Legoredo's are obsolete and nobody wants them? This too,
> could not be further from the truh.
> C) They try to "dump" stuff on us? Do we not want things like this?
> If this is them trying to dump things on us, let me be a dump site!
We seem to be having a very major communications problem here.
Obsolete stock is a manufacturing and retail sales term that basically means
something that's not in production anymore and is sitting around in the
warehouse or shelves taking up space, collecting dust, and losing money for
the business by not having been sold yet. Businesses dump obsolete stock
all the time. Usually it ends up at discount stores or large retailers
willing to buy up large quantities at reduced prices.
Yes, they are dumping when they post about something that old in nontrivial
quantities. No one is implying there's anything wrong with a company
dumping its obsolete stock on its fans. Fans love it, the company loves it,
everyone's happy. However, company business doesn't need to be conducted in
fan-to-fan theme groups.
Mark, please stop trying to make a big issue out of this. This is not a big
deal and it shouldn't be that hard to understand.
> This is a fan created website, so I am assuming you are a fan of
> Lego, but your actions toward the lego company (and only the lego company)
> in no way demonstrate that you are a fan of the Lego company.
I have great respect and admiration for the LEGO Company and what it has
achieved in the past 25 years. But that doesn't make me a fan of the
_company_. I'm a fan of the _products_ the company produces and of the
things people make using its products.
> Am I correct
> in the assumption that you like LEGOS but hate, no check that, *dislike* the
> Lego company? That is the face you are showing not only to us, but the
> employees of lego, and the company itself.
You are not correct in that assumption, no.
--Todd
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