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| (...) I have to disagree with this pretty strongly. My idea of the bulk orders service would include minimums not too far out of reach of the average builder, and at a price that would make subsequent smaller auctions unlikley. The whole internet (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Ok. :) (...) If that's what you think will happen, I think you're going to be disappointed. Let's talk some numbers here. Minimums "not too far out of reach of the average builder." Ok, what's that? 10 egg-shaped trees? That's a fair amount of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| I want to order anything I want. But I'm willing to accept a 6 month lead time and a K8 per color minimum quantity as long as I am not constrained from reselling (even if a constraint is placed on what my markup can be, I can live with that) I can (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Then it will bankrupt the company anyway, because if they think kids want either this junior junk, or their unusually lame CD-ROM games -- then their whole marketing theory is wrong. They need to get back to brick basics and pronto. TLC's (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Not yet, that's what they do just before Chapter 11. Already they have had to ditch an almost entirely electronic affair in favor of "bricks and mortar" warehousing. And that's not the end of it either... I see the splitting stocks and 0 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| You lost me here. Is the internet changing everything or isn't it? Are low value add middlemen going away or aren't they? And what point are you trying to make, exactly? Not saying it isn't valid, just that I can't parse it out. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Apples and oranges. Yes, the current line of sets is rather less than we could wish, but instituting a service in which I can buy one tile for 1 cent is going to bankrupt the company. Some restrictions will be needed or it will fail. Why does (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Me. I don't pass up on deals. And no matter what Lego Direct does or does not do, there will still be clearance sales and there will still be a place for the small-time parts seller/auctioneer to work. We might have to adapt, but we'll be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Hello All, :) Most likely they will use the quanity price ratio with a set minimum. I do know one thing, whether it would bankrupt TLC or not (which in my opinion it would, I agree with Lar on that.) There will be a minimum order and dont expect (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Yes, the middleman is going away. Thats my prediction on it. Middlemen like Amazon.com will enjoy a short run, and then companies and other kinds of creators will figure out they can deal directly to the public and make bigger profits even if (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I can't help you or TLC here, I won't pay full retail for a dud set. I may not even pay 50%. I am not sure how low some Rock Raiders stuff has to go before I would even be interested. I buy only what I like, not everything I see. Call me (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) the (...) I just received the latest catalog in an order from LS@H ("Galaxy of ADVENTURE!", Spring 2000) and noticed that the "Limited Quantities" is still mentioned on the accessories pages. The catalog is shorter, so perhaps this explains (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) But the brick packs will remain. I didn't ask about certain accessories like technic, etc. But this explains a lot, apparently the limited quanity on all accessories is a mistake, and more or less are for certain items. I mean lego just (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I don't think they are cancelling the acc packs, I just think they are bringing out new versions with new #s, which they do from time to time. There have been several times in the past where a "new" acc pack was just an old one with a couple (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Some factors I can see: - Legoworld is an "expo" type event compared to BrickFest being a "gathering of fans" event. - Public advertising obviously increases numbers - Europe probably has a much higher density of AFOLs (even if the US might (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It is indeed an "expo" event, though about 40% of it is dedicated to the AFOL community. The "Bouwsteen" had a (very) large area which was dedicated to adults showing their MOCs and have fans talk to eachother. Also, like Ben said: in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, no, it's not possible to effectively forge messages here. Yes, you can post messages using someone else's name (easily, even). But it is _not_ possible to forge the originating IP in Todd's logs. Which means that even though _we_ (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Point 1, he uses IE on Windows NT (if we can believe the first message, at least). So no remote breaking in. Which leaves physical access - which is IMHO rather unlikely. (...) Break into a high-security FreeBSD box? Highly unlikely, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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