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Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
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lugnet.admin.database
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:15:23 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Well, let's get something straight here first:
>
> 1. TLC's policy about vendor/retailer catalogs is only half of the issue.
> It doesn't take a genius to figure out that something known as a
> "retailer catalog" (which consumers almost *never* see) is not intended
> for consumers ever to see.
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> 2. Posting scans of portions of a retailer catalog -- including major leaks
> about upcoming product lines and details -- *before* those product lines
> have been released officially -- is the other half of the issue.
>
> Those are two separate things.
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> We haven't heard from TLC conclusively on #1, but like I said, it doesn't
> take a genius to figure out that it's probably not really a good idea. On
> top of that, if Suzanne says is something like that is wrong, I can be sure
> (without any doubt whatsoever in my mind) that it's wrong.
Flawed reasoning. NOONE is EVER right ALL the time. Until we hear from TLC
themselves, assume anything you want, but don't be SURE of that assumption.
Is it a good idea? Depends on how you/TLC think people will take the scans.
1 - angry that they can't get them NOW, they grouse and stop buying Lego for
a bit
2 - seeing sets they want that won't be out for a long time, and being on a
budget,
they stop buying now to save up for next year
3 - seeing sets they want that won't be out for a long time, they just file
that info in
the back of their mind, and start buying sets NOW to part
out/sell/auction/Ebay
to pay for later sets (and TLC gets paid whether the sets bought now are
on
clearance or not)
4 - Competitors will use that info to XYZ or ABC - GET REAL. Competitors
already HAVE that info, if they are decent competitors. Industrial
espionage
exists, DEAL with it, work on minimizing it.
There are other scenarios, of course. But I fall into 3 - my Lego spending is
INCREASING due to those pics. I'm going to have to part out a lot more sets, and
buy more clearance sets, to have any chance of affording enough of the 2000 sets
I like. And that means more bottom line to TLC. So leaking the pics is
benefitting TLC in my particular case, at least.
--
Tom Stangl
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