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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
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:27:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> writes:
> > Eric Kingsley wrote:
> > > 1. Time = Money
> > > The time I have to dedicate to reading LUGNET is somewhat limited.
> > > I am not interested in what contest LEGO is running today, or why
> > > Bionicle masks arn't properly randomized, or that S@H just got
> > > some Fort Legorado's in. I prefer to *spend* my *time* reading
> > > fan posts and looking at pictures of MOC's.
So do not open the posts, you have every right to pass them over.
> > So you would prefer to hear about the Fort Legoredo's from some AFOL
> > posting that he just found out that S@H got a bunch in and he just
> > bought them all? What is different from Brad telling us "hey Shop at
> > Home got this pile of nice sets" and a fan saying "I just got off the
> > phone with Shop at Home and the sales person was kind enough to ask me
> > if I might be interested in any of these nice older sets"?
>
> The difference is collossal. One is a company acting opportunistically to
> dump obsolete stock and the other is a community of like-minded peers
> sharing information.
WHOA! Are you honestly trying to tell us that:
A) Lego would not have been able to sell these sets outside of
Lugnet? I very much doubt they would have any prob selling these
sets elsewhere.
B) The Fort Legoredo's are obsolete and nobody wants them? This too,
could not be further from the truh.
C) They try to "dump" stuff on us? Do we not want things like this?
If this is them trying to dump things on us, let me be a dump site!
My mind is boggled you would even consider calling Lego a "company acting
opportunistically to dump obsolete stock" I am not sure how to take this,
the more and more I read, the more I think there is a really big chip - or
lego - on your shoulder, and that chip is the lego company. And it is really
tainting your actions. After reading the post that another part of this
thread linked to (the post Suz wrote) I am asking myself what the big
problem is? You may say there is no problem, but I *think* that is a fantasy
in itself. This is a fan created website, so I am assuming you are a fan of
Lego, but your actions toward the lego company (and only the lego company)
in no way demonstrate that you are a fan of the Lego company. Am I correct
in the assumption that you like LEGOS but hate, no check that, *dislike* the
Lego company? That is the face you are showing not only to us, but the
employees of lego, and the company itself.
>
>
> --Todd
Mark P
mfuss903@aol.com
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