Announcements : 803


Announcements / 803

Shop at Home up and running? —Thomas P. Rafert

If I missed an announcement earlier, sorry. Just went to Lego.com and noticed the shop link. After going there noticed Orange Bulk Brick message, which is actually a pumpkin you can make. 87 bricks for $9.99 Haven't checked it all out yet or ordered (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct) !!

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Richard Marchetti

(...) The price is a little steep, but it's still a pretty cool set. Sadly, I think TLC is getting the wrong idea about pricing -- I guess there is little hope in getting them to drop prices any time soon. The pumpkin itself is very similar to what (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) It is not too clear, but I think they are just 2*1 black bricks? Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Tom Stangl

If you look at the description of the set at (URL) , there is a link to the directions - (URL) that it uses 2x2/3/4/8 bricks. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Steve Bliss

(...) Nice amounts of bricks and slopes. :) Based on the building instructions, I see the following part-breakdown: Orange ------ 7 2x2 16 2x3 12 2x4 9 2x8 6 2x2 slope 18 2x2 inverted slope 6 3x2 slope 4 3x2 inverted slope Green ----- 3 1x2 2 2x2 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.db.inv)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Michael Hader

(...) The directions (much better pictures) can be found here: (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —John Neal

(...) Yes and no. This pumpkin is built entirely from 2x orange bricks; the Halloween bucket gave us 1x orange bricks. It contains seven 2x2 (brand new), sixteen 2x3s (brand new), and eleven 2x4s (brand new), along with nine 2x8s (available in only (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Richard Marchetti

(...) O, me too. I guess I didn't look at this thing very long, blurry as it was. 1 x Y is way better than 2 x Y as far as I am concerned. -- Richard (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Jake McKee

Have you seen this?: (URL) that is cool! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Mark Sandlin

S@H seems amazingly slow in between pages... and I'm on a T1 Why does it need to reload the applet and all the menus every time I click a new page? Anyway, I got me two o' them Jack o' Lanterns. Woo! ~Mark (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Christopher Lindsey

(...) Hopefully it's just because we're all hitting the pages at once. :) It *is* slow; doing a text-only dump of the top-level page from a system on 100MB ethernet connected to the Internet via an OC-12 takes 12.38 seconds (ah, but an OC-12 to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I think they started using a different first letter for web order confirmations (long timers and heavy users know that orders that start with P were taken by real S@H people and orders that start with T were taken by overflow), because my (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Christian Gemuenden

(...) I already ordered my Pumpkin #3731 a few hours ago and recieved a different (even lower) confirmation code: X00000xx The TWO small x are actually numbers which I will not reveal either, but the first letter has been an X (though a large (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) My thinking exactly. While i happen to be in the UK at the mo, the order is to my home address in the US. U for US, X for everywhere else? More data needed. ++Lar (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Jonathan Lopes

(...) Looks like they are offering a new bulk assortment as well, 1x8 bricks & 2x8 plates.I guess the Orange Pumpkin is the "new & rare colors" they promised us in October. If these are the only 'new' bulk packs this season, I will be very (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I think these were available before... 2x4 and 2x8 plates were, anyway, along with 1x6 plates. The bulk pages seem to be a rearrangement (in a non logical order) of what was there before except for the pumpkin. FUT market.shopping. ++Lar (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Jake McKee

Uh...have you seen the Statue of Liberty??? It has an all new dusty green!!!!! It is a cool model too! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —John Radtke

(...) Anyone else getting a 'must be able to accept cookie' error accessing shop.lego.com? I have IE 5 on Win98, default security settings, and I get plenty of cookies. I'm looking at a current Lego.com cookie in fact. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Tony Hafner

(...) I am seeing the same problem on one of the machines in my office, running Win2000 using IE5. The site works fine on my NT4 machine running IE5. But the site is basically unuseable anyway, as it is ridiculously slow. Not that this is a big (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Ka-On Lee

(...) Yes it is horrible. Never seen a page that would hit 100% CPU when everything is drawn and there is no animation. May be it is on purpose to match the "horror" theme of holloween? <sign> And where is the "next page" button when it list the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Mark D. McKean

(...) I didn't notice any unreasonable slowness on the hi-band site over a cable modem. I doubt it's the design that's causing the slowness you had; I imagine either the server or the network was overloaded when you visited the site. (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

A few new snippets of information that I got because there was a small problem with my CC (not all the digits took, a problem ticket is open on that) and I got called (in the UK on my mobile, as it turned out). U is indeed a new order confirmation (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) I read this as: Some marketing guy browses ths list once a week/month. Every now and then he'll write a post/advert and stick BJ's name on end. Scott A BTW Are you saying it is OK to be "rude" in other groups? (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Mike Timm

(...) Hmm, now this posted just cements the pattern, its time for something I never thought I would use on Lugnet, the killfilter. Mike (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

(canceled) —Scott Arthur

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —James Brown

(...) Really? I read it as "some S@H staff know about Lugnet and read it on their own time; like other human beings, they like getting feedback, but don't appreciate rudeness" Out of curiosity, how do you infer from the above that S@H personnel are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) I bet they love LEGO too, and spend all their spare time playing with the stuff. Perhaps there homes are made of LEGO too - they must get tonnes of it on discount. Or maybe they are just moms & students hoping to help pay the bills - and would (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Well, I don't know about homes made of LEGO, the actual discount limits per year are not that generous (I know the numbers but won't be specific). But I know several S@H employees by name (I do talk to them a lot) and more of *them* know who (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) Larry, I could recount countless “conversations” with telesales people. They all tell me _their_ product is great, they use it, there mother uses etc etc. They always sound happy as they work for great companies... and they always appear to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Steve Bliss

(...) But I credit Larry with enough intelligence to tell when he's being BS'ed. (...) I have no doubt that this holds true for the 'overflow' agency that LEGO contracts with. My guess is that things are somewhat above average at S@H, based on the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) Yes, and even so your nice Mr Bush looks like he is going to win. Scott A (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) You go right ahead and read it that way if you like, but it's not what I said, and it's not what I meant. I mean, I just said in the very post you referenced that I was referring to that a rep called me and in the course of fixing up a problem (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) I did not say you said that? (...) I have never heard of here? Should I have? (...) He may well. (...) How do you know this? Ask any PA how many letters / mails here boss writes. (...) So LEGO only read this group as rule? Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Yes. "She" signed all LEGO communications (letters in response to consumer letters, little blurbs in catalogs, etc.) both here and in the UK for many years. (...) Todd told me that Brad told him. So either Todd was fooled, Todd is a liar, I'm (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Charles Eric McCarthy

(...) I think either Larry needs a beer, or Scott need a beer, or I'm lying to you, or you're both wrong, or you're both secret agents of TLC. I know which way I'm betting. :-) /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) Several (...) So (...) If you're buying, I'm drinkin'. :-) Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Steve Bliss

(...) Hey! What about me? I'm pretty sure I need a beer. Steve (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I never did find out which way Eric was betting. Free beer sounds good to me too, but I'm more intruiged by the secret agent option... what toys would I get? ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —James Brown

(...) you, (...) A Spy Runner, obviously. <GD&R> James (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I have some of those coming already. :-) I was hoping more for the "harness to hold the thing that takes bricks apart up your sleeve" or the "RCX secret reprogramming device" or even the "brick that actually looks like a key until you unfold (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —James Brown

(...) Well, I could have told you about those, but then I'd have to kill you. You forgot the secret decoder ring, and the watch with the built-in UPC scanner for checking prices. :) James (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I have those already... but my ultramicro satellite uplink dish on the watch isn't working right. :) :) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Jennifer L. Boger

(...) yeah! if someone's giving out beer, i think they need to share with the rest of the class :) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) When I was a kid, I wrote a letter to Dennis the Menace. He wrote back after a month or so with a bland letter which was both signed by him and his dog (Gnasher). My father confirmed to me that this was the real McCoy. So either I was fooled (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Yup. You, as a child, were fooled, and Brad, who has talked to Todd on the phone, posts his own stuff. To paraphrase (and let me apologise in advance if you don't get this joke) "Todd said it, I believe it, and that settles it!" I tried (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

<cut> (...) Sounds right. (...) Indeed. (...) You dare to order me about... sounds pretty impolite to me. :-) Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Richard Marchetti

(...) No, no -- that's just crusty ol' Lar. Everyone loves him and the effusions that spill from his lips. You and I on the other hand... =) -- Richard (far less serious than some apparently think, but I do say what I mean -- it's just that Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Mike Walsh

"Scott A" <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:G2LIru.I8L@lugnet.com... (...) liar, (...) after a (...) know (...) When I was graduating from college I sent a graduation announctment to the President (Ronald Reagan at the time). A few weeks (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Kevin Wilson

(...) Brad exists - I have talked to him on the phone. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Park: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Or someone who SAYS he's Brad, has tapped into the TLC switchboard, and has enough bulk LEGO in his personal collection to send you several K8's of it for your kids play area, anyway. Not proof enough. :-) Right, Scott? FUT to o-t.fun ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Scott Arthur

(...) Where did I say BJ does not exist? Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —John Radtke

(...) Let me add to this that not two hours after my post about the cookie error on the shop site I had an email from LEGO (tech. supp. I guess) acknowledging the problem and giving me a solution. Apparently the problem occurs if you have cookies (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Raphael P. Jacquot

(...) ok. maybe. now try to use lynx under Linux : lynx (URL) Incorrect Access Permission [ERROR.GIF] No cookie. To access this site your browser must be accepting cookies. ------ very useful... (yeah, that would be a good way to get rig of the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Ran Talbott

[.general snipped, in deference to recently-expressed opinions about its over-use] (...) I'm sure they don't. Especially those "regular moms", who seem to be doing as superb a job for their other phone customers as they have for me, and who are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Geoffrey Hyde

(...) In that case, you're going to *love* browsing the Microsoft site whenever you need to go there to get a patch for something. I always get the heebeejeebeees (sp?) whenever visiting that site, mainly because you have to try several different (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Ran Talbott

(...) Not a problem: there are no patches to browse for, because Microsoft stopped supporting everything of theirs that I own years ago ;-) (...) Me, too. But I get them because I know they've built a back door into the Exploder to support the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Geoffrey Hyde

I don't know that Microsoft are anything even coming near malevolent. Misguided, maybe, but certainly not with "malicious" intent, which your malevolent implies. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Ran <ran@netgate.net> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Jude Beaudin

(...) Since when is 7101 Lightsaber Duel a "Classic" SW set? If LEGO is interested I am willing to be payed lots of LEGO to help proofread the site. <grin> Why does the same menu have to relaod every page!?! This portion of the site is too slow on (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Christian Gemuenden

(...) interested I (...) That's not the only wrong placed set: - You will find the set #7184 MTT in the LEGO > Technic > Star Wars section although it is an LEGO > Themes > Star Wars > Episode I set. - You will find the set #3439 Spy Runner in the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Just a quick note that my order arrived. The pumpkin is packed in the low cost clear cello bagging with adhesive label that we have come to expect for bulk. It doesn't come with any included instructions (unless I missed them) which is fine (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Tom Stangl

The instructions are online. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Rob Doucette

"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:39F3667A.C96431...faq.com... (...) low cost (...) bulk. (...) which is (...) I spun a PDF from the website (for my own use), if anyone wants a look see, it's at: (URL) not a direct print (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Steve Bliss

[snipped lugnet.lego.direct and lugnet.market.shopping from ng list -- should there be a lugnet.bulk group?] (...) I liked the line on the invoice/receipt/packing list, under Description: Pumpkin Pack You can find the Building Instructions for your (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —James Brown

(...) Hmm. For no readily discernable reason, this post set off my 'Ah hah!' detector. Ah hah! Has anyone else noticed that the pumpkin pack is advertised in 1 place, and 1 place only? You will only find out about this set if you are on-line. Hmm. A (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Steve Bliss

(...) Well, yeah. I assumed that from the get-go. Although I'll dispute your "lower than retail price-per-brick" estimate. There are 87 bricks in the pack, and one pack cost me about 11USD. That's about 0.126USD per brick. That's nowhere near the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

Re: Shop at Home up and running? —Robin Werner

(...) This Orange brick packs news was just a bit late for me. I didn't see it till today and it seems you all snapped up the in-stock sets! I have been put on a back order list:( maybe I'll see them in November? See Ya... Robin W GFLTC PS I'm with (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)