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Re: WHY SO LONG ON Light Gray?
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Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:27:34 GMT
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No, you are mistaken. These ideas were forecast in the original Lego Direct
plan from April 2000 that was ahead of its time.
As for the "please make bleen colored googlewhatsit" posts on Dear Lego, you
should understand those in the context: wishful thinking mostly. Or like
putting flowers on graves, or paper scrolls on a bush, or pennies in a
wishing well...
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=9
In lugnet.dear-lego, Ronald Vallenduuk writes:
> Cool!
> The first interesting/serious ideas about bulk. So refreshing after all
> those "Dear Lego, I want you to make part x in colour y available in
> bulk".....
>
> Duq
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> Timothy D. Freshly <timfreshly@shaheenlaw.com> wrote in message
> news:GoAKu2.1wL@lugnet.com...
> >
> > "TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message
> > news:Go9LDr.Jox@lugnet.com...
> > [snip]
> > > The solution, as I believe others have pointed out in this forum before, is
> > > relatively simple: Every few months, S@H should announce its intention to
> > take
> > > preorders for large (say, 1,000 pieces) bulk offerings of a few elements.
> > > There can be an announcement on shop.lego.com, a mention in one catalog, and a
> > > posting say to .market.brickshops or .market.b-s-t. Once preordering is done,
> > > the bricks are made and shipped out. . .and the process begins again, with
> > > different elements. This offers none of the risk and hassle of the current
> > > setup to S@H, since they don't have to worry about a large selection or keeping
> > > an inventory of items in stock. It also spurs increased sales by eliminating
> > > buyer uncertainty about how long parts will remain in stock or whether prices
> > > will drop. And it means that S@H can offer a wide coverage of parts, over
> > the
> > > course of a year or so. Of course, the most frequent buyers would be BrickBay
> > > sellers who wanted to offer the parts to people who didn't want such large
> > > quantities---meeting demand for smaller quantities at a higher price point.
> > > The tricky part is that TLC probably couldn't *tell* John Q. Public "If you
> > > want this part in smaller quantities, there's this place called BrickBay.
> > . .",
> > > but hopefully people would get in the know somehow.
> >
> > Glad to see this idea coming around again. I suggested something very
> > similar a few years back (although I can not find it at the moment). Based
> > on Lego's upcoming production schedule, let us preoder with credit cards so
> > Lego has a confirmed number of parts already secured. Then when the regular
> > batch of piece X (for example 2x4 brick in white) is run for their regular
> > needs, they can also run whatever additional parts have been preordered and
> > prepaid for. They could even set a minimum number needed before they will
> > even do an additional run. If that minimum is not met, all orders up to
> > that point are cancelled and credit cards credited back.
> >
> > The beauty is that Lego would know in advance of a given production run how
> > many additional pieces would need to be made to fulfill the preorders AND
> > they could calculate how much additional material and time would be needed.
> > WIN-WIN.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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| Cool! The first interesting/serious ideas about bulk. So refreshing after all those "Dear Lego, I want you to make part x in colour y available in bulk"..... Duq Timothy D. Freshly <timfreshly@shaheenlaw.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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