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Hi! I have a a question regarding LEGO Direct, and hopefully Brad or anybody else can answer them (I hope this is the right newsgroup): 1) What exactly is meant by "bulk" ordering? Does this mean we will be able to order certain pieces only in large (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I get the impression from Brad's last post that this is not finalised yet. As Larry said so eloquently a little earlier, Brad, I think you need to give us a bit of direction to shoot for. Ideally, _every_ piece of lego ever made would be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hmm... per piece price on the 2x4 brick and other similar bricks needs to be somewhat lower than 10 cents a brick. Thanksgiving 1998 got me zillions of 400 piece buckets for 4 dollars USD each (after using a 1 dollar coupon I had hoarded, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) At this point in the discussion, I'd just like to say "You lucky American bastards!". (400 piece buckets tend to cost $20+, rather than $5 or $7, around here) Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahh, the upside to living in a culture that is insanely materialistic;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We're not lucky, just more market oriented. Not to mention smarter and handsomer. Seriously, you can't have it both ways. Of COURSE stuff is generally cheaper here (not just in dollar to dollar terms, but in terms of the time it takes to earn (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 19:24:28 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Based on the ~$10.00 retail price of the 3025 Silver Brick Bucket, and using the number of studs per brick as a guage for measuring the price per brick, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'm not sure that is an accurate or representative metric. PPB when breaking up buckets is a combination of rarity and desirability, and as far as I can tell 2*4 bricks are less expensive than most others, because there's not that much demand (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Larry, Anyone making $60 an hour is indeed a lucky person. Considering that minimum wage is only around $5.25 and most people consider a $10 an hour job doing well. No hard feelings intended here....but some of us have to work 3 hours for that (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh, I hear you. I'm still (for the time being) very "blue collar" pay-wise at my current FTJ (full-time job). But on my last consulting job I think I would have had to work about 17.14 minutes for that CD player. Can't (or at least haven't (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Your point is well taken, although I'd go farther and say that 10 an hour isn't considered by everyone as 'doing well', if that's the wage that a single wage earner is making. It is HARD to get by on 400 a week pretax (that's about 20K a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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First, no offense was intended in my original statement and none was taken by me with regard to Pat's response. Nor should any be taken by the below. One point I forgot to make though. (...) I'm not sure (and this IS .debate, after all) that luck (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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No, it's bloody IMPOSSIBLE to get by on $400/week POST-tax in my area, unless you have multiple earners in a household. With rents at $1200+ for any area short of slums around here, $400/wk barely pays the rent. Don't get me started on that :-/ (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just a FYI: I weighed a 2x4 plate at 18.6 grains, and a 2x4 brick at 35.4 grains. The brick is about 2x the weight of the plate. However, when calculating "cost" to produce a plate vs. brick, the 16.8 grains of ABS is not even a "blip on the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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R2 <r2eng@primenet.com> wrote in message news:FnsGBG.4xI@lugnet.com... (...) vs. (...) You are half right half wrong. Molds are very very expensive to produce, especially when they should satisfy 0.00X type of dimensional accuracy, but if you are (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:3870F1E0.8D1B0D...ger.net... (...) Peh..:-) Slightly less then 1000$ (after tax) per month is just my income, and yes I'm not a blue collar, actually a relatively well earning white..:-) (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) Well, yes, but I am talking price (actually price differential between) of a single brick and plate. If taking into account the cost of ABS in large quantities, 16.8 gr.. difference in weight vs. total ABS used in (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Are the trees actually waste? I'd expect them to be thrown into the raw materials bin again.. Jasper (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I would 'guess' they are waste. Most of the time the trees have some type of contamination for human hands, dirt, dust, grime, or maybe even mold release agent. Also, the energy required for remelting of the solid trees would be greater than (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) At LLC, they have a single mold pushing out 2x4 red bricks. Being a complete and utter layman when it comes to the injection molding industry, all I can really say is "it looked neat". :) James (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) But when the raw material enters the factory, as granules, it's not melted either.. and I've seen documentaries where the granules are liberally touched by hand. But you could be right, you knopw more about this than I do, obviously. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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