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To All,
After 8 months of intense work, picture taking, counting, sorting, and the
like,
I am very proud to announce that The Sanburn Systems Company is now on-line,
for the first initial launch and testing, here:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/index.htm
I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
There are two items I know of off-hand:
1) Discover Cards do not work yet. The terminal will be activated by tomorrow.
You will get an error message otherwise.
2) Some bigger pictures need to be re-linked. All the thumbnails are present.
The Sanburn Systems Company is a straight sale individual or bulk LEGO part
selling company. We have over 30,000 parts right now, all from the Star Wars
LEGO Theme. I have matched all prices for parts with LEGO Direct, and you can
buy as many as you want, or just one, it is up to you. These are the sets I
currently have:
Star Wars Classic Series (Episodes 4,5,6)
7104 - Desert Skiff, 7110 - Landspeeder, 7128 - Speederbikes, 7130 -
Snowspeeder, 7134 - A Wing Fighter, 7140 - X Wing Fighter,
7144 - Slave 1, 7150 - Y Wing & TIE Fighter,
7180 - B Wing Fighter & Rebel Command Control Center
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
7101 - Lightsaber Duel, 7111 - Droid Fighter, 7115 - Gungan Patrol,
7121 - Naboo Swamp, 7124 - Flash Speeder, 7131 - Anakin's Podracer,
7141 - Naboo Fighter, 7151 - Sith Infiltrator, 7161 - Gungan Sub,
and 7171 - Mos Espa Pod Race.
I also have another 30,000 parts I will be adding over the next few weeks
from various sets. To see further, just go to here:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/sets.htm
Payments to The Sanburn Systems Company are fast and easy, I accept all major
credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover (It will be on-
line tomorrow!) using our secure server, http://www.signio.com. I
have "bought" a lot of things already, but I re-stocked them afterward, to
make sure they work. I would never have people do what I would not do. This is
the preferred method of payment. We also accept Paypal.com and x.com payments,
as well as personal checks, money orders, and cash in U.S. Dollars. I will
send out international orders. See our payment options page for ordering
information:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/payment.htm
I tried to keep shipping costs reasonable, so I am not making money from
shipping, here are the details:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/shipping.htm
I also offer price matching, on any on-line LEGO part, I will beat it by a
penny:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/price-match.htm
I offer 100% satisfaction, and a 30 day refund / exchange guarantee:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/cust-sat.htm
I also pledge never to sell or disclose any information in regards to you, to
anyone, at anytime. your personal and private information will never be sold,
or given away. You have my word on it:
http://www.sanburnsystems.com/privacy.htm
As for the future of The Sanburn Systems Company, I would like to expand into
all the current LEGO items on the market, I.E. Castle, Artic, Adventurers,
Ninja, TECHNIC, etc. I will wait and see what happens. I will try to get the
prices lowered, but that is still in negotiations with several people at this
point. The sky is the limit. Any ideas or suggestions on what should be
carried will be appreciated.
Anyway, the site is ready, so please stop and by and tell me what you think.
You can e-mail me directly here at: ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com
I look forward to serving the On-line community of LUGNET, and hope that I
provide a good service to all LEGO loving people. Thanks for reading!
Sincerely,
Scott E. Sanburn
Owner, the Sanburn Systems Company
http://www.sanburnsystems.com
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Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com> wrote:
> I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
> error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
Not an error per se, but I'd make the "Parts for Sale" link a bit more
obvious -- since it's the point of the whole thing, it should jump out at
people.
Looks pretty cool!
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Matthew Miller writes:
> Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com> wrote:
> > I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
> > error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> > siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
>
> Not an error per se, but I'd make the "Parts for Sale" link a bit more
> obvious -- since it's the point of the whole thing, it should jump out at
> people.
Definitely. It took me all of two minutes to find it, 'coz i was looking at
the top of the frames, the "obvious" places.
Another thing - the pages take a long time to load on my (relatively quick)
cable connection. Are you using actual small files, or are the thumbnails just
big files compressed by the HTML code? You might want to consider that, it'll
shorten the loading time considerably...
-Shiri
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Another thing - the pages take a long time to load on my (relatively quick)
> cable connection. Are you using actual small files, or are the thumbnails
> just big files compressed by the HTML code? You might want to consider
> that, it'll shorten the loading time considerably...
I think it's just slow. :(
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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I don't like your site - it's too easy to spend money ;-)
Nice prices on many of the pieces, BTW!
"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
> To All,
>
> After 8 months of intense work, picture taking, counting, sorting, and the
> like,
> I am very proud to announce that The Sanburn Systems Company is now on-line,
> for the first initial launch and testing, here:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/index.htm
>
> I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
> error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
>
> There are two items I know of off-hand:
>
> 1) Discover Cards do not work yet. The terminal will be activated by tomorrow.
> You will get an error message otherwise.
> 2) Some bigger pictures need to be re-linked. All the thumbnails are present.
>
> The Sanburn Systems Company is a straight sale individual or bulk LEGO part
> selling company. We have over 30,000 parts right now, all from the Star Wars
> LEGO Theme. I have matched all prices for parts with LEGO Direct, and you can
> buy as many as you want, or just one, it is up to you. These are the sets I
> currently have:
>
> Star Wars Classic Series (Episodes 4,5,6)
>
> 7104 - Desert Skiff, 7110 - Landspeeder, 7128 - Speederbikes, 7130 -
> Snowspeeder, 7134 - A Wing Fighter, 7140 - X Wing Fighter,
> 7144 - Slave 1, 7150 - Y Wing & TIE Fighter,
> 7180 - B Wing Fighter & Rebel Command Control Center
>
> Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
>
> 7101 - Lightsaber Duel, 7111 - Droid Fighter, 7115 - Gungan Patrol,
> 7121 - Naboo Swamp, 7124 - Flash Speeder, 7131 - Anakin's Podracer,
> 7141 - Naboo Fighter, 7151 - Sith Infiltrator, 7161 - Gungan Sub,
> and 7171 - Mos Espa Pod Race.
>
> I also have another 30,000 parts I will be adding over the next few weeks
> from various sets. To see further, just go to here:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/sets.htm
>
> Payments to The Sanburn Systems Company are fast and easy, I accept all major
> credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover (It will be on-
> line tomorrow!) using our secure server, http://www.signio.com. I
> have "bought" a lot of things already, but I re-stocked them afterward, to
> make sure they work. I would never have people do what I would not do. This is
> the preferred method of payment. We also accept Paypal.com and x.com payments,
> as well as personal checks, money orders, and cash in U.S. Dollars. I will
> send out international orders. See our payment options page for ordering
> information:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/payment.htm
>
> I tried to keep shipping costs reasonable, so I am not making money from
> shipping, here are the details:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/shipping.htm
>
> I also offer price matching, on any on-line LEGO part, I will beat it by a
> penny:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/price-match.htm
>
> I offer 100% satisfaction, and a 30 day refund / exchange guarantee:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/cust-sat.htm
>
> I also pledge never to sell or disclose any information in regards to you, to
> anyone, at anytime. your personal and private information will never be sold,
> or given away. You have my word on it:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/privacy.htm
>
> As for the future of The Sanburn Systems Company, I would like to expand into
> all the current LEGO items on the market, I.E. Castle, Artic, Adventurers,
> Ninja, TECHNIC, etc. I will wait and see what happens. I will try to get the
> prices lowered, but that is still in negotiations with several people at this
> point. The sky is the limit. Any ideas or suggestions on what should be
> carried will be appreciated.
>
> Anyway, the site is ready, so please stop and by and tell me what you think.
> You can e-mail me directly here at: ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com
>
> I look forward to serving the On-line community of LUGNET, and hope that I
> provide a good service to all LEGO loving people. Thanks for reading!
>
> Sincerely,
> Scott E. Sanburn
> Owner, the Sanburn Systems Company
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com
--
Tom Stangl
***http://www.vfaq.com/
***DSM Visual FAQ home
***http://ba.dsm.org/
***SF Bay Area DSMs
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> Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com> wrote:
> > I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
> > error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> > siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
>
> Not an error per se, but I'd make the "Parts for Sale" link a bit more
> obvious -- since it's the point of the whole thing, it should jump out at
> people.
Hmm... maybe I'll put it on top, being bold?
> Looks pretty cool!
Thank you, sir. I'm trying! Making a logo is ,my biggest challage so far!
: )
Scott S.
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> --
> Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
> Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
> Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com> wrote:
> > > I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a • technical
> > > error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> > > siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
> >
> > Not an error per se, but I'd make the "Parts for Sale" link a bit more
> > obvious -- since it's the point of the whole thing, it should jump out at
> > people.
>
> Definitely. It took me all of two minutes to find it, 'coz i was looking • at
> the top of the frames, the "obvious" places.
>
> Another thing - the pages take a long time to load on my (relatively • quick)
> cable connection. Are you using actual small files, or are the thumbnails • just
> big files compressed by the HTML code? You might want to consider that, • it'll
> shorten the loading time considerably...
>
> -Shiri
All right. NOw I tested it in two different places, one here at home with a
56K modem, and one with an ISDN line at work. It didn't seem too slow to me
here. Was there any pages that jumped out in terms of being too slow?
Scott S.
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> Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Another thing - the pages take a long time to load on my (relatively • quick)
> > cable connection. Are you using actual small files, or are the thumbnails
> > just big files compressed by the HTML code? You might want to consider
> > that, it'll shorten the loading time considerably...
>
> I think it's just slow. :(
It isn't compressed or anything, I have both a thumbnail and a bigger
picture. I might have to stagnate some of the products, say only 10 items
per page. That might speed it up a little.
Scott S.
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In lugnet.announce, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
> I will provide $0.50 in free parts to people that can tell me a technical
> error, such as a broken link, etc. You will need to contact me at
> siteadmin@sanburnsystems.com for this.
Well, I'll report this one here, because I doubt there's anything you can
do about it, and it's important for customers to know about:
Your "shopping basket" is not a real "basket".
It's actually a "wish list" that may, or may not, be filled when you go to
check out. I don't know how many of the parts I "bought" I actually wound
up not getting. But I do know that at least a dozen parts that I had
supposedly put in my "basket" got sold out from underneath me while I was
shopping.
Given the way the store is set up, there's no clean solution to this: unless
you want to require people to log in to shop (which sucks just as badly in its
own way), there's no defense against someone screwing things up for other
customers by loading up a basket, and never checking out (or maybe just not
checking out until payday).
But it sucks extremely large rocks that the system doesn't tell you at checkout
time that it's ignored part(s) of your order. And that's something you should
yell at your ISP about.
Obviously, I don't consider this a "show-stopper", since I just dropped
almost a hundred bucks on you ;-) I got some killer deals on some obscure
parts, and I'll undoubtedly be back for more. I just have to vent because
I feel like someone was raiding my cart, and grabbing my FOTWs, at a TRU
clearance sale.
You can go back to packing and shipping my goodies now ;-)
Ran
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
> All right. NOw I tested it in two different places, one here at home with a
> 56K modem, and one with an ISDN line at work. It didn't seem too slow to me
> here. Was there any pages that jumped out in terms of being too slow?
There was a significant glitch an hour or two ago. But I'm at work, on a
500k DSL, and there's a noticeable slowness on pages with lots of parts on
them. Probably due to the downloading of all the images. It's still fine
here (except during that glitch: I think maybe a server went down), but
I have the feeling it'd be pretty bad on a modem. But there are lots of
sites like that these days, and it looks like your layout is friendly to
people who browse with auto image downloading turned off.
Ran
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Tom,
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com>
To: <lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade@lugnet.com>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: The Sanburn Systems Company is Now Online!
> I don't like your site - it's too easy to spend money ;-)
Thanks! That's the idea! : )
> Nice prices on many of the pieces, BTW!
Thank you, sir! I am trying to be competitive, and from the responses so
far, it looks like it is! I am humbled and grateful for the response so far,
and I hope to continue to serve all of you. Thanks for the response! (My
wife and I appreciate it, it calms her concerns!)
Scott S.
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Ran,
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
>
> > All right. NOw I tested it in two different places, one here at home with • a
> > 56K modem, and one with an ISDN line at work. It didn't seem too slow to • me
> > here. Was there any pages that jumped out in terms of being too slow?
>
> There was a significant glitch an hour or two ago. But I'm at work, on a
> 500k DSL, and there's a noticeable slowness on pages with lots of parts • on
> them. Probably due to the downloading of all the images. It's still fine
> here (except during that glitch: I think maybe a server went down), but
> I have the feeling it'd be pretty bad on a modem. But there are lots of
> sites like that these days, and it looks like your layout is friendly to
> people who browse with auto image downloading turned off.
Hmm.. it is running slower right now, must be a few different people on it.
I forwarded your last message to work, I need to get ready. But I will
definately change some of the bigger part to put 8 products up at a time, so
it might be faster then. Thanks for the info!
Scott S.
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Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com> wrote:
> It isn't compressed or anything, I have both a thumbnail and a bigger
> picture. I might have to stagnate some of the products, say only 10 items
> per page. That might speed it up a little.
It doesn't seem to be the images that are slow. Rather, the inventory pages
themselves are slow to even start loading (as if the data is slow to come
out of a database.) All of the pages on www.sanburnsystems.com seem fine.
The ones on secure.hostmaster2000.com all seem slow.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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Hi Scott,
I don't have any technical problems, so my comments are free :-)
In lugnet.announce, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
> I also offer price matching, on any on-line LEGO part, I will beat it by a
> penny:
>
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/price-match.htm
I went through this. I think you will need to include some lattitude for
yourself, and you might want to include it in the verbiage as soon as you can.
For instance, I could set up a site on BrickBay or whatever selling pieces
that you sell (even specifically targetting your site as my victim) for much
lower than market price. I could never advertise, because I don't want anyone
to buy, but even if they did, I could only have ten of piece X available. If
you have 400 of them, then you need to drop the price down to $.01 less than my
price, and I can buy them all up from you at an unfair price.
Obviously, I wouldn't do that, because it would be sleazy and wrong, but you
can't count on that from everyone. Guard yourself.
> http://www.sanburnsystems.com/privacy.htm
This is a strong privacy statement. Most sites include a disclaimer noting
that if they are required by a court, to provide data, they will do so. Is
that also your stance, or are you willing to go to jail rather than provide my
LEGO buying habits to a federal grand jury?
Oh, and it was on one of those two pages...I think the privacy statement (yeah,
I'm sure of it)...on the last line you write 'an firm' or 'an company' or
something. the 'an' should either be 'a' or 'any'.
Chris
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What compression level are you running on the thumbnails? Most of pics of
standard elements could be compressed to level 50 without losing any necessary
detail (minifigs or printed parts might need 30-40). You can crunch even small
thumbnails down quite a bit by raising the compression level and cropping even
more of the background out.
Watch the color balance - some of the yellow pieces looked orange, and vvs,
depending on the balance of the pic.
"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
> > Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Another thing - the pages take a long time to load on my (relatively • quick)
> > > cable connection. Are you using actual small files, or are the thumbnails
> > > just big files compressed by the HTML code? You might want to consider
> > > that, it'll shorten the loading time considerably...
> >
> > I think it's just slow. :(
>
> It isn't compressed or anything, I have both a thumbnail and a bigger
> picture. I might have to stagnate some of the products, say only 10 items
> per page. That might speed it up a little.
>
> Scott S.
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***http://www.vfaq.com/
***DSM Visual FAQ home
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***SF Bay Area DSMs
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote:
> What compression level are you running on the thumbnails? Most of pics of
The images are only a few k. While more compression wouldn't hurt, I don't
think it's the problem.
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Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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