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| (...) Throw them away. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Depending on location. Here in Hawaii, retail costs are about 10% more than S&H prices. For example, the super street sensation is $149.99 here at TRU. When the 6090 royal knight's castle first came out, it was $159.99. So it actually comes (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Well, technically it is. But, S@H charges 10% more than retail, so most of us just consider that 10% a shipping cost. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Shipping is "free" because it's included in the price of each item. Which is nice when you're ordering one or two things, but when you're ordering 100, it's silly -- you're paying a huge markup, and (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) If it's accessible through a web browser, OS concerns should not be an issue. Make it HTML-compliant, instead of the www.lego.com -like Evil WebPages, and make sure lynx can read it. (...) Nah.. 1600*1200, with various sizes reduced copies. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Well personally, I havea large stack of them in my closet because I can't be bothered to list them in order to sell them! Kevin (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I thought shipping was free on all items? Besides, you're only speaking to a clerk behind the phone who doesn't have the power to make a decision on how shipping will cost. By reading less than a half of this thread if I was Brad, I'd be (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I also hope no one gets kicked off of LUGnet for using "LEGO" as a noun. :) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) from (...) Laura wrote: <major snippage occurrs> (...) them quickly (...) Ditto! -Peter (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Sure, when a company tries to stop the dissemination of information on the net, that information usually goes underground. But that's besides the point, in my opinion. I don't want to have to beg people to send me instruction scans by email, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| I agree totally with Robert...Which brings me, once again, to point out an address EVERYONE should look at. Todd is, in my opinion, trying the best he can to *follow* the words in this website: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:00:41 GMT, "Robert M. Dye" <robdye@writeme.com> wrote: . (...) They'd be in their rights to demand it. It would not happen. The web simply doesn't work that way. Did you miss the dozens of posts screaming "someone email me the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| This is my last word in this thread. God grant I'm not tempted to break that. ---...--- (...) So...what...? Since you did not write it, it was not rude? My original post on this topic was not addressed to you. I said, speaking in general to the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ah, but the thing is, except for second-hand, we'll never be able to undercut Lego from the things _new_: bulk parts, and the hypothetical free copying of current instructions. You see, Set-breakers exist now. What do you think they do with (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Just another minor point here and I'm really just nitpicking so don't sweat it... (...) True. We've had people who said they were designers, people who related experiences working in a model shop, we sometimes have lurkers from various departments (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Sturm und Drang. Cool word choice by Rob, IMHO. You don't need a German dictionary, it's in English dictionaries, synonymous with turmoil. It is literally translated as "Storm and Stress" and it comes from a "German literary movement, characterized (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) You're right. Let's just say that I don't want to be told my access privileges here are revoked if I happen to post a link to a picture that, for whatever reason, wasn't linked to on www.lego.com. That's just one minor thing I could see (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yeah, but it's all the same. :) When I feel the urge to call someone a jackass I don't normally disguise it in roundabout phrasing designed to keep him from wanting to punch me in the face. (...) And you would have won vocab bonus points for (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Don't worry about it. I'm taking one of the Richard's suggestions and making up words when my natural inclination is to include some profanity - no reason you can't as well. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, first, *I* didn't write the message you're referring to. I've sometimes quite loudly disagreed with Todd, but I have never been, and don't plan on ever being, rude to him. Second, things DID get a little heated over the last week or two. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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