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Re: Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:30:30 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Timothy D. Freshly writes:

Cool idea!

(3) for TLC - the extra run time to fulfill exceptionally large bulk orders
may interfere with carefully planned production schedules and cause delays
in production and introduction of planned sets
[...]
(3)  proper advance planning and scheduling of production runs will
eliminate any delays caused by the extra quantity load

This might not be a problem if TLC allow bulk ordering to take up to 3% of
piece A, and 5% of piece B etc. So however they distribute the excess is up to
them?

I don't think we'd make much of a dent in normal TLC runs anyway, well, not
after the initial rush :)

Richard



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  Re: Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
 
Of course there is always the obvious, that TLG might decide to break slow moving sets from the previous year or two and sell those pieces individually instead of their current practice of reshipping unsold sets back to Europe for markdown in that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
 
Dear Brad: As you can see, one of the AFOLs primary concerns is the ability to bulk order a wide variety of pieces in vastly different quantities. Wouldn't it be great if an AFOL could order ANY piece currently in production in ANY quantity (at (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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