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Re: Brad: A way for almost ANY piece to be sold...
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:16:35 GMT
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Robert M. Dye <robdye@writeme.com> wrote:
> Why not hire one or two promising high school students out of good ol'
> Enfield High, and make them apprentices in the model department? Offer them
> minimum wage AND a discount on LEGO, AND they get to keep creations they
> build in the lab, PROVIDED their teachers (the master builders) regard them
> as being up to LEGO standards.
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> PART OF THE APPRENTICES' JOB WOULD BE: filling orders for LEGO direct.
> Parts that cannot be offered in a service pack (not enough demand, or
> whatever) can be picked by hand in the model shop bins, packed, shipped, and
> sold by weight of abs plus shipping. Just set the per ounce price high
> enough to justify the whole thing.
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> This would give you an idea what parts are in demand, and what things don't
> have high demand, but are still sought by AFOL's.
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> I really think this could work.
Sounds interesting. Gotta pay 'em more than minimum wage, though,
especially in CT. I doubt many kids would even work for that.
--
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| (...) Recruited from the ranks of soon to be AFOLs? Strikes me that was the point, not to hire people who need market wages to work there, but to hire people who love the brick already.... and just happen to be still in high school and therefore can (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| I have posted this in th epast, but since I don't know how long Brad & co. have been reading, I do so again... Why not hire one or two promising high school students out of good ol' Enfield High, and make them apprentices in the model department? (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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