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Re: LEGO Direct Questions
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 19:24:28 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following
profundities...
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> > I think we've heard from several dozens of people now that they would
> > be willing to buy tens of thousands of plain bricks in various colors,
> > if at a reasonable price. I expect that "a reasonable price" will turn
> > out to be a bit over the per-piece price you get from buckets on sale
> > in the US. Anything in the order of $0.05 to $0.10, though as prices
> > go up sales would go down obviously (maybe not by much though..).
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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, applied to a 5 dollar walmart special)...
> which yields a per piece price of 1 cent. NOT all of those pieces were
> 2x4 bricks, some of them were 1x1s and etc, but still. Right now I am
> offering, I think, 1.5 cents each for 1x1 bricks in black in bulk.
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, yields the following PPB(1) result (assuming
the silver brick was free):
1x1 $0.0045
1x2 $0.0090
1x3 $0.0136
1x4 $0.0181
1x6 $0.0271
1x8 $0.0362
2x2 $0.0181
2x3 $0.0271
2x4 $0.0362
2x6 $0.0542
Rounding up everything to the nearest whole cent, would
produce the following PPB's:
1x1 $0.01
1x2 $0.01
1x3 $0.02
1x4 $0.02
1x6 $0.03
1x8 $0.04
2x2 $0.02
2x3 $0.03
2x4 $0.04
2x6 $0.06
Based on the piece count of the 3025, that would be a retail
price of $11.69 for the 3025. Still not too bad (from the UK's
perspective, at least!)
Even doubling those prices, allowing for TLG's (or is it TLC?
What thread is that??) need for mark-ups (staffing, storage,
development of web-based ordering software, retail set sale
protection, etc.), would fit within your guide-range of 5
to 10 cents per piece. (would you balk at 12 cents for a 2x6?)
Such mark-ups would be more substantial, percentage-wise, on
certain bricks than others, but does that really matter?
Plates, tiles, and slopes. Pricing for those, based on the
above model, would be a bit more tricky....
The plates I had bulk-ordered came in at slightly less
than the equivalent-sized brick (a 2x4 plate cost 75%
as much as a 2x4 brick). I would think that to be an
acceptable price ratio for the tiles and plates. (8 cents
for a 2x4 brick, and 6 cents for a 2x4 plate). However,
as the plate is one-third the size, and probably 1/3 the
actual ABS, I would personally prefer to see them come in
at 1/2 the price of the equivelant HxW-sized-brick.
Slopes....I would have to imagine those coming in at the
same price as the equivalent brick. Same for 2x2 column
pieces, etc.
The much more specialised pieces, such as windows, doors,
wall sections, etc. Pricing for those would be a bit
trickier still. I shall forgo estimating those!
Hopefully, those prices will be the same for everyone,
irrespective of global location. However, It is conceivable,
in order to protect retail sales in other countries, to mark
prices up higher still! However, using the UK as an example,
the 8 cent per 2x4 price still comes in higher than the PPB
for the UK's 1857 Brick Value Box. (44% higher, in fact).
Shipping costs would be the other big factor! Do you factor
that into the individual PPB, or seperately, based on total
order weight? Let's hope it is done on the TOW!
(1)PPB=Price per brick
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, 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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