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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:26:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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- What types of products/themes/concepts do you think are missing from the assortment over the years?
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New foliage pieces would be good:
· Some kind of creeping ivy type stuff for attaching to buildings
· Some new type of one-piece tree or shrub
· Some new types of leaves for making trees
For Service Pack/Bulk Pack ideas:
· Tan Plates assortment
· Tan Tiles assortment
· Tan anything assortment
· Jumper plates in a new 4 or 5 color assortment
· Increased availability of colors like Sand Blue, Sand Green, Sand Red, Dark
Red, Dark Green, Dark Blue, Dark Tan, Medium Blue, Light Yellow
· a curvy bits
pack. y’know -- stuff that is curvy like #6081, 6091, etc
· a round bits pack.
again, round bricks, 1/4 disc bricks, log bricks, etc
Things to keep or supplement:
· 2x2 White window pack. White is universally useful. Other colors would be
nice, but in most cases, White works well.
· gates and fences pack. Over the
years, this type of item has been offered again and again and again, so it must
be relatively successful.
Grab-Bag or Mystery items are fun to order and receive thru mail-order. They
should offer good value (at least twice the retail value as the price) and not
include unwanted merchandise that nobody wants at any price. A Grab-Bag or
Mystery item program is a good promo to run during the slow season February thru
July, for example.
Over the years, the one thing that S@H has stood for to me is LONG-TERM
AVAILABILTY of items. Since retail product cycles are so short (a few months)
and so many LEGO items are issued each year, it is good to know that delayed
purchases of items is possible.
For example, if an item issued January 2004 is
unstocked from retail stores by August 2004, it is good to know that I can still
call up S@H and purchase the item as much as two or three years later.
In years past, it was not uncommon to be able to purchase items from S@H that
were issued as much as FOUR YEARS AGO. Granted, a leaner business model may not
allow for four years worth of stock on hand, but longer product availability
from S@H is definitely a Good Thing.
S@H has always done a good job of
balancing what I call ‘warehousing versus selling’ product meaning S@H does a
good job of keeping stock available for long periods of time rather than
constantly reducing the price just to make a sale. If only new items were
available from S@H then many customers would have to look elsewhere to purchase
older products and S@H would be almost obsolete or irrelevant to some degree.
Kevin Salm
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