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Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct
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Date:
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:57:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Eric Kingsley writes:
> First, yes train folks would be interested. Just as they would be interested
> if someone had a MetroLiner for sale, that doesn't mean the post should be in
> .trains .
But still, they are not trying to sell us anything - and they do not have to
try to sell us anything, we buy Lego no matter what. this goes to whats
below also.
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> Second, it is purley marketing, the contest is free to join but don't think
> LEGO is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. It is all to promote
> sales of trains and/or bulk bricks. The better the models that are submitted
> then the better stuff they can post which raises the interest in trains for the
> more casual fan that isn't here. Believe me it is all about making money for
> LEGO.
Do you want them to go bankrupt? I know it will never happen - That is the
goal of every person and company - to make money, even Todd wants to make
money to keep this site going.
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> > I think its great that LEGO is posting their stuff here,
> > But from the reaction, it looks like Eric among others do not want them
> > posting here and are offended by their presence here - but why?
> Now your putting words in my mouth and I don't like it. I never said I was
> "offended by LEGO's presence here" all I said was that a marketing post was >not appropriate for a themed group. I love the fact that LEGO posts to >LUGNET.
First, there is more than one Eric posting in this thread, and I said it
*looks* like that, never said it was law. No offence was ment - I used the
name as an example, nothing more.
> I just don't want to sift through LEGO marketing in themed groups. >If LEGO >wants to market things here they have a place for it and I can look in those >groups.
Is it hard to sift through posts? as long as you do not click on it, it
should take you appx .01 of a second to pass it over, like the V chip for
the TV, its not hard to bypass anything you do not want. So I think this
point is not valid - it is too easy to pass up any unwanted post.
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> > > There's been a lot of attitudes expressed here towards keeping LUGNET 'pure'
> > > of LEGO's marketing.
> > But like I said - they are not trying to sell us anything and not trying to
> > push an unwanted product upon us.
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> But in the end it is all about making money, whether it is from us or other
> more casual fans.
No, I disagree - they are trying to answer our questions and help us out -
is that wrong?
Mark P
mfuss903@aol.com
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