To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.dear-legoOpen lugnet.dear-lego in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Dear LEGO / 1926
1925  |  1927
Subject: 
Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:52:23 GMT
Highlighted: 
! (details)
Viewed: 
9008 times
  
In lugnet.dear-lego, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > Well, I see how you would want them to post here about what is for sale, but
> > then people who didn't know about Lugnet could complain just as much as you
> > did.  They called more than one person.  If they called 10 times as many
> > people and still not you, would you be happier?  Posting on Lugnet, by your
> > explanation, would be unfair to the RTL crowd and posting on their website
> > would be unfair to those off-line.  The distribution of information is tough.
> > It is almost impossible to spread it evenly and at the same time to everyone.
> 
> They should post here, there, everywhere, and then put it in as an insert to
> the catalog (I had made a list of possibilities, please don't try to suggest
> that my model was exclusionary) -- anywhere anyone can access the info.

Richard,

You're kidding, right?  We're talking about a *very* limited quantity of
sets.  Catalog inserts?  Those cost money and take plenty of time to make
and stuff into the catalogs - and by the time they get out, the sets will
probably be gone!  Websites and postings - they have to pay people to do
those.

Which is cheaper: paying someone to make 4 or 5 phone calls to sell a big
chunk of product in one go, or paying a web designer, someone to post the
specials, a printer, a layout artist...you get the idea.  It doesn't make
any economic sense to do all that - it would eat up any profit that TLC
(or the store, whichever) could possibly make on those sets.

J



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
 
(...) I think its interesting that you feel the need to "retaliate" about something that is actually addressed "Dear-Lego" and concerns the manner in which TLC does business with us fans. You "few" guys are pretty reflexive about this point I am (...) (27 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

146 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR