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Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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lugnet.color
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Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:40:51 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.color, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
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> > Why don't people put their money where their mouths are? Why are the old bulk
> > color packs still available on LSAH, more than two months after release? What
> > business incentive are you giving Lego to bring the old colors back: a few
> > disenfranchised fans that complain and complain on Lugnet but can't even move
> > $360,000 of product that was painstakingly created solely for them? Isn't Lego
> > revenue something on the order of $1.5 billion/yr? Where's the 5%?
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> Good question. I did *MY* bit. My calculations show me that I bought better than
> .5% of the total production run. That's right... Half a percent of the whole
> run! I can't really afford it but I wanted that run to be successful. To send a
> message to LEGO that the old colors mattered and that I appreciated the effort
> Jake went to in getting them to us.
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> Who else bought enough to be noticed?
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> I'm not saying that everyone else has to do what I did. Maybe those parts aren't
> right for you. I dunno. But I wonder, I really do.
I have purchased as much as I could when I could. 40 bags each of the grays. I
will keep buying as I can afford to until they are gone.
Steven Weiser
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| (...) Given the size of your collection, budget and home, I'm just completely in awe of that. Blows me totally away, proportionally. But then, you're not someone that complains a lot, you just soldier on, having fun and doing what you believe in so (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) Good question. I did *MY* bit. My calculations show me that I bought better than .5% of the total production run. That's right... Half a percent of the whole run! I can't really afford it but I wanted that run to be successful. To send a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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