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(...) Yes, the middleman is going away. Thats my prediction on it. Middlemen like Amazon.com will enjoy a short run, and then companies and other kinds of creators will figure out they can deal directly to the public and make bigger profits even if (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Richard Marchetti wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Yeah, that might be great, but it would be certainly "off-topic" in a Lego Forum..:-) Selçuk (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Dean Husby wrote in message <38B216BE.ED52CF50@a....bc.ca>... (...) consumer. (...) sets (Or (...) clearance (...) Well, all they have to do is make sure their return on investment for selling bulk bricks is as good as or better than for sets. Of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Me. I don't pass up on deals. And no matter what Lego Direct does or does not do, there will still be clearance sales and there will still be a place for the small-time parts seller/auctioneer to work. We might have to adapt, but we'll be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The one thing I think people are missing is this. TLC must be careful not to make the Bulk ordering too easy for the consumer. If I got all the special bits I needed I wouldn't be buying all the dud sets (Or multiples of sets) to get a few (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Apples and oranges. Yes, the current line of sets is rather less than we could wish, but instituting a service in which I can buy one tile for 1 cent is going to bankrupt the company. Some restrictions will be needed or it will fail. Why does (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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You lost me here. Is the internet changing everything or isn't it? Are low value add middlemen going away or aren't they? And what point are you trying to make, exactly? Not saying it isn't valid, just that I can't parse it out. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not yet, that's what they do just before Chapter 11. Already they have had to ditch an almost entirely electronic affair in favor of "bricks and mortar" warehousing. And that's not the end of it either... I see the splitting stocks and 0 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Then it will bankrupt the company anyway, because if they think kids want either this junior junk, or their unusually lame CD-ROM games -- then their whole marketing theory is wrong. They need to get back to brick basics and pronto. TLC's (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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I want to order anything I want. But I'm willing to accept a 6 month lead time and a K8 per color minimum quantity as long as I am not constrained from reselling (even if a constraint is placed on what my markup can be, I can live with that) I can (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I don't know about the video control software, but: you don't really even _want_ the Mindstorms software. It's no great loss. (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) But not the Mindstorms software and almost certainly not the soon-to-be- released Video Control software. DLC (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Umm, look into DACTA/Pitsco. They offer a Mac Cable specifically as an add-on to Mindstorms. So I'm guessing their RoboLab software also runs on the Mac. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ok. :) (...) If that's what you think will happen, I think you're going to be disappointed. Let's talk some numbers here. Minimums "not too far out of reach of the average builder." Ok, what's that? 10 egg-shaped trees? That's a fair amount of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I have to disagree with this pretty strongly. My idea of the bulk orders service would include minimums not too far out of reach of the average builder, and at a price that would make subsequent smaller auctions unlikley. The whole internet (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) production Here's an example of a K8 box: (URL) this case it's not full of bulk bricks, but just a convenient container for newly purchased sets). (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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In the off chance they are, and Brad was for real (although we haven't heard anything since the announcement) I'll post my query here. Ahem. When will LEGO support the Macintosh for the RIS? Certainly the near release of RIS 2.0 with the USB based (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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[snip] (...) if they (...) Those would (...) Actually I think I did see trans-dark-blue heads in sets also. I only remember there's one in 5808. It is printed with a fish and used for the small aquarium in the Belville Castle. I think they've been (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) <big snip> Doesn't the 'Ultimate LEGO Book' have pictures of LLC buildings being built at the model shops in Denmark? I don't think the Enfield model shop builds anything for LLC - the build stuff for the Imagination Centers; for the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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Does that mean there are still K8s of light blue bricks and plates laying around there that we might talk them out of? ;-) I say that because there are all SORTS of pieces at LLC in light blue that never came in a production set, and aren't used in (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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