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(...) Paypal is not exactly a bastion of customer service either. Clearly they enjoy their position as a market leader and the ability to bully and neglect their consumers that comes with it. I do agree that it's unfair to to chastise a company for (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) But, I seem to recall that PayPal goes to great lengths to say they're not a "bank"... As someone who both knows Dan, and has been a fan of LEGO for nearly 40 years, I'm leaning towards the "this is a busy season at Shop@Home" line of thought, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) You may well get a "Jake who?".. he doesn't sit in Enfield and may not be in their phone system. Also I am not sure that Jake can (or should) help in specific cases. He doesn't work for Shop at Home. He's also not necessarily tasked with (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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(...) And the winner is..... Not Lego. But not MegaBloks either, thankfully! Instead the K'Nex "Big Air Ball Tower": (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Deals at St. Jacobs LEGO Outlet
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I just got this email from my dad, I'll just paste it below. Iain ---- Today's KW Record had a full page ad for Lego @ St Jacobs Outlet. Your Lego train friends might be interested...4 rail cars listed at 1/2 (?) price..ie # 10113 reg 24.99 for 9.99 (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I agree, let the bank fight it out for you. That is why we pay what we pay is service fees to the banks. Call Paypal and tell them the whole situation, they should take care of it for you. If they don't you can make an ideal threat to contact (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Woah you had me scared for a bit. Looking at your subject and the way you started off your message, I thought you ordered original light grey brick packs and received new light grey brick packs (would've been worse if it involved dark (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) That's a foolish motto for business. Quality is always a trade-off against cost. You set it as low as you can while still achieving your goals for revenue & market share. The motto is more reasonable as: "Good enough is the best." KDJ (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Weekly Update of New AuctionBrick Listings - 12/9/04
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This is weekly update of new items listed at (URL) as of Thu Dec 09, 08:50 AM PST. To bid, review details of any item listed or to register go to (URL). (2 URLs) 3308 World Cup Small Tribune from 1998> Minimum Bid: $20.00, Time Left: 1 Day 0 Hrs+ (2 (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) I think the latest official gcc-binaries for brickOS are still 2.95.x. However, I have binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.0 running under linux and had only minor problems. Make sure you compile gcc without the stdc++ libraries or just ignore the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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So can we make the rule set FINAL? No more changes on scoring? Everyone happy? (....time to start looking for loopholes.... BWAHAHAHAHA...) -Rob A. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote: Snip (...) I couldn't agree more. With the new sets of 2004 and bulk tubs for the last two years, I have enjoyed the many new colors. But there are not enough in any quantity to build anything useful. Reducing the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | On eBay: 3 Large Ships 6271 6280 6286
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Take a look at: (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I can understand being frustrated, but writing off the entirety of the LEGO company because one keyboard jockey at S@H made a mistake is pretty lame. It can often take weeks to resolve credit card mistakes because of the lengthy processes (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) Are you sure this wasn't a PayPal issue? I remember reading a while back that when you use PayPal to purchase something, PayPal 'blocks off' the monetary ammount from your credit card (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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(...) What a progressive church -- everyone attending seems to be driving a Toyota Prius! My kind of place. You created a lot of pleasing detail just by choosing different 1 x 1 brick elements -- a beam here, a headlight brick there. Nice job. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14 Duplo 3278 Wallpaper Wendy 4.99 2.49 Clickits 7510 Trendy Tote (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) The consistency is in the basic four fractions: 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4. The other measures are (more or less) deliberate inconsistencies to name files that don't fit the basic standard. (...) Yes, that would be an incorrect consideration. Part (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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I think this is a new initiative to further cut costs. Its funny one part of Lego decides it needs to control the pallette and amount of "usuable parts" in the system, while another part keeps on coming out with new colors and new parts (molds) for (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) the color tiles can be read? Steve (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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