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Re: The Knight Bus problem
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lugnet.color
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Fri, 14 May 2004 18:51:08 GMT
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You know, if they blew out the current run at 75% off, I'd gladly buy 20 or more.
Then I could sort out the various purples, and build several buses, each a slightly
different shade.
But it would have to be 75% off to get me interested, as I couldn't resell any of
the purple at all - how the HECK would you list the parts? "Purple from Knight Bus,
lighter shade". Yeah, right.
Martin Bruun wrote:
> In lugnet.color, Christian Treczoks wrote:
> > The big problem is that the whole production of this set is botched and
> > should go to the bin. This is something they can't afford right now, and
> > they can't create acceptable quality sets until the movie starts.
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> What makes you think, that a company with an equity of about 950 million US$
> couldn't afford to scrap a set?
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| (...) I think some enterprising enterpreneur will prove you wrong about that. It might take some discounting rather than full retail before it happens but I don't expect it to need to go to 75% off. (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) I agree, I don't think this particular set lives up to TLC's core values nor their quality policy as it is expressed in their latest annual report page 21 "In LEGO Company we aim to exceed our Consumer's expectations of our products, our (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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