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Re: LEGO Direct Questions
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 00:30:47 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:03:03 GMT, richard.dee@virgin.net (Richard Dee)
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> and using the number of studs per brick as a guage for measuring
> the price per brick,
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 for them.
What I'd personally like is something that is less biased towards
small bricks. A sliding scale, yes, but not by as much.
> 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
Say, going from 2 to 5 cents for this range. Or maybe 5 to 10, if we
double the prices..
> Such mark-ups would be more substantial, percentage-wise, on
> certain bricks than others, but does that really matter?
Nope.
> However,
> as the plate is one-third the size, and probably 1/3 the
> actual ABS,
I disagree. The top part, which is essentially the same in both the
brick and the plate (ignoring that the plate top has to be thicker for
appropriate sturdiness), contains most of the ABS, IMHO. I would say a
plate contains around 1/2 the ABS of a brick of equivalent size.
> I would personally prefer to see them come in
> at 1/2 the price of the equivelant HxW-sized-brick.
That would be around my preferred pricing point as well. Plates are
enormously more versatile than bricks for detail work, and making the
available cheaply will do a lot for detail in models.
> Slopes....I would have to imagine those coming in at the
> same price as the equivalent brick. Same for 2x2 column
> pieces, etc.
Maybe a bit more due to less demand, but OTOH, if you set the same
minimum order size (which can be quite large if necessary - _someone_
will step in as redistributor, eh, Todd, Larry?), that shouldn't
really be much of a factor.
> 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!
I'd say everything that's available in reasonable abundance in sets
can take guidance from auction prices. Doing the same, say, for yellow
2*2*3 extreme slope corner pieces, which only appeared in one set,
which has been discontinued for nearly twenty years, would be a bit
less reasonable (though still within LDs rights, of course).
> 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!
At the very least allow custom shipping calculation for large orders.
Like if you order 20 service packs now, there should ideally be some
compensation for that factor., but there isn't.
Jasper
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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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, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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