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Re: Mr. Justus!
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:13:21 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
> Eric Brok wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Ok, I think you misunderstand the whole point of Shop@Home. It's not to
> > > get stuff cheap. (S@H in the US has never been cheap.) It's to get
> > > things that you can't find in your local store.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 'The thing is', that in countries like Germany and the Netherlands, every
> > corner's toy store does already have the full (european) line.
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> Well, if that really is the case, you folks in some ways have it better
> than we do in the US. Very few stores even carry the full line of what
> is typically sold in the stores, and there are bunches of things like
> train track (which apparently TLC has decided that retail stores CAN'T
> sell), Scala, and Belville that aren't sold in stores (not sure they
> even can, though last year around Easter I did see a Belville set in a
> K-Mart, so they can conceivably get them). We do have a small handfull
> of stores that carry a more complete range (but The Construction Company
> is the only store not owned by TLC that I am aware of).
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> Now what we all have a mostly legitimate beef about is that there are a
> number of sets which aren't available in all markets.
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> > So
> > Shop-at-home will only have any business here if:
> > - they offer non-european sets
> > - they offer accesory sets
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> I expect that they will expand to these. You need to remember that it
> isn't easy to create a mail order buisiness out of thin air. Time is
> needed to staff up, build inventory, etc. I wonder how S@H US started
> up? Did they immediately offer the full line (which was probably much
> smaller then)? How prevalent is mail order buisiness in Europe? In the
> US, it has a history of success for over 100 years, and was a
> significant contributor to expansion into the west (Montgomery Ward and
> Sears and Roebuck are the two big names of course).
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> > - they offer cheap an/or hard-to-find 'bulk' pieces
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> Well, they do offer the new bulk packs (or at least some of them) don't
> they?
>
> > (- payment other than credit-card (althoug cc's catch on because of
> > e-commerce).)
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> I wouldn't hold my breath too hard for this. It would be nice if the web
> site provided a way to print an order which you could mail in with a
> check, but that's the only real option.
>
> FUT: lugnet.dear-lego
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> --
> Frank Filz
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Frank, I cannot speak for the rest of Europe, but I have always been surprised
at how much more Lego variety I have found in German toy sellers, as compared to
the USA. And I have been to over 100 German Lego retailers (in 13 visits to
Germany). They always had more available than we did, especially in spare parts
(zubehör/erzatzteile).
Gary Istok
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