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Re: What the F.......
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:44:34 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Kevin Salm writes:
> WE HAVE ALL BEEN SHAFTED!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> How gullible are we all--I guess very much so. After all, the email address
> looked official enough. And we all want our greatest wishes to come true.
> But I think we all got burned!!!!
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> I personally did not post a response to the introduction on RTL or Lugnet
> because my level of cynicism and skepticism held me back. Perhaps these
> were good instincts.
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> Lego has never cared about us before, why should they now--regardless of how
> strong a brand they want to have in the next few years. TLC has never had
> an accessible email address--now all of a sudden they open themselves up to
> accept email rants by the thousands!! Highly unlikely.
Lego DOES have an email address. I have it and have sent them email. They
just don't give it out because they don't want to be flooded with email from
people who want to buy 2 purple 2x2 tiles or something else.
> The introduction told us that Lego Direct is not quite ready to handle our
> deluge of requests. This sounded fishy--any corporate move that occurs
> without being totally prepared can bring unexpected problems and disaster.
> I don't think that TLC would operate this way.
I don't think you really know how TLC would or would not operate. I know I
don't.
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> To the individual(s) that cooked up this hoax:
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> MAY YOU BURN IN HE__ !!!!!!!!
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> D. Jezek wrote in message ...
> > Has anybody read this yet? It was posted on RLT and I'm just quoting it:
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> > Subject: Thanks for your input
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> > Brad Justus wrote:
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> > > Thanks to everyone who has written me. Too bad this is all a SCAM, there
> > > never will be any Lego Direct. How would resellers of Lego be able to
> > > make any money if all people bought were individual pieces? Hope no one
> > > got too excited from my previous post.
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> > > Happy Holidays. And Play Well.
> > >
> > > - Brad
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> > > Brad Justus
> > > Senior Vice President, LEGO Direct
> > > legodirect@lego.com
> >
> > "The text beginning with ">" is not mine but somebody else's."
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| I've got email addresses inside of LEGO too, and I guarantee you Brad is for real. What he has expressed is the manifestation of many ideas I have heard before, privately. Make no mistake, LEGO direct is for real. KL (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| WE HAVE ALL BEEN SHAFTED!!!...!!! How gullible are we all--I guess very much so. After all, the email address looked official enough. And we all want our greatest wishes to come true. But I think we all got burned!!!! I personally did not post a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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