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Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:29:38 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Duane Hess writes:
> If I want bad sets with a bad color scheme,
> I'll wait until they are in the discount bid. Where is TLC's profit there?
TLC makes the same amount of money on a set you buy from the discount bin as
they do on a set you buy off the shelves of the same store the day it first
comes in.
What buying from the discount bins *does* do, on the other hand, is send the
store a message that this particular item was not very popular (well, assuming
there are lots of them that get the discount) and over time that can lead to
the store buying less and less from TLC, or stopping altogether.
eric
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| (...) Yes and No. I'm not sure how much the store's Corporate office watches a particular set (unless it proves to be extremely unpopular). I'm of the opinion that the corporate buyers are watching the overall performance of: 1) Lego products, 2) a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I was just going to let this thread pass on by like so many other TLC-bashing threads, but your comments here rang the proverbial bell in my mind. As a kid (somewhere between 9 and 12 years old) I used to have a friend that would come over and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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