Color : 900


Color / 900	899 \| 901

Subject:	Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
Newsgroups:	lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:46:01 GMT
Viewed:	3964 times

In lugnet.color, Richard Noeckel wrote: > In lugnet.color, Bob Hayes wrote: > > In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote: > > > To Mr. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp > > > CEO of LEGO Company > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Keep up the good work, and please let us know if we can help! > > > > The letter that Ben presented is trying to send a real message. This one is > > just an amazing suck up!! > > > > Did you apply to be a "Lego Ambassador"? > > > > I have to go throw up now. > > I have to agree with Bob here... > Y'know, sometimes the consumers know better than the management William! > That, and your whole brown-nosing here smells like @$$ I'm not brown-nosing. I'm just disgusted with the way some so-called Adult fans of LEGO act like three-year-olds when the company makes a change they don't agree with. > What's so productive about giving TLG praise? > They're a company, they don't need thank-you's, they need capital to get outta > the red. Therein, the criticisms are actually more productive for them than the > 'you're the best tlc!" Yeah, they're a company that needs to focus on its core business - selling toys to kids. Messing around with AFOL's is a waste of their time. No way are AFOL's going to have any measurable effect on the bottom line, grey or no grey.

Message has 1 Reply:

		Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
(...) And your actions, kissing their hindquarters vociferously, will somehow tell them when they might have done something that has upset their paying customers? ENOUGH of the puckering up, Bill. (...) 5% is 5%. If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)

Message is in Reply To:

		Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
(...) I have to agree with Bob here... Y'know, sometimes the consumers know better than the management William! That, and your whole brown-nosing here smells like @$$ What's so productive about giving TLG praise? They're a company, they don't need (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)

9 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact

Custom Search