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Subject:	Viability of Bulk sales (was Re: Are you paying attention, LEGO?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:18:02 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> > > > > I'm not sure that bulk or by-the-brick type purchasing will ever be that > > large a segment of the market. > > Are you agreeing or disagreeing? I was making predictions about gross > profits, not gross revenues. <snip yet more> I thought I'd throw some anecdotal data in: I called to place a large Lego order on Monday. About 18 different set #s. Almost all of the new Bulk packs, the train packs, and the castle expander pack were back-ordered. (I expect Larry had something to do with this? :) The 'regular' sets were not. I think that they're selling at least as many bulk packs as they'd hoped. My expectation is that every time we cause them to do another production run of bulk bricks, our opinions in this forum gain a little more weight. 4 or 5 months ago many people said "Give us bulk bricks in rarer colours". It took 'til now to happen, but they listened, and we're buying them out. That's a pretty strong argument for them to listen to other suggestions of ours. I think the most frustrating thing for us is having to wait months for the sets to appear, but I'm not sure that TLC *can* move faster than that. We *are* getting what we want. At glacial speed, perhaps. Keep pressing... Regards, Jeff

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		Re: Viability of Bulk sales (was Re: Are you paying attention, LEGO?)
(...) I would say that it only appears to be at glacial speed, because we don't see everything that's going into it. The sudden appearance of rarer colors in bulk pack ordering reflects what was probably an immediate move to follow on-line (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

		Re: Viability of Bulk sales (was Re: Are you paying attention, LEGO?)
(...) Nope. I have not ordered anything yet from the latest releases. Yet. ++Lar (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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		Re: Are you paying attention, LEGO?
(...) ^^^^^^^ (...) ^^^^^^ (...) Are you agreeing or disagreeing? I was making predictions about gross profits, not gross revenues. (...) Hasn't this already begun to happen? 5-10 years down the road is anyone's guess, and I'm not holding my breath (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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