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| (...) The last time I checked, we had a very large balance of payments deficit... clearly, lots of companies - including a large Danish manufacturer of ABS bricks - are already managing to cope with our import requirements. Blame the government? Of (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I in turn suspect you haven't thought things through. Unless they run a fulfilment center, they have to do that doc for each and every order. (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I in turn suspect you haven't thought things through. Unless they run a fulfilment center, they have to do that doc for each and every order. (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) But surely if they warehouse some stuff in Australia (assumption!!), the import orders would be fairly large? ROSCO (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) True, but how difficult is that to do in practice? (Could be as simple as enter the details into the system, press send then press print, the worst possible case is filling in a form twice, not exactly a great effort). It's not as if no one (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Reread my sentence just above your assumption. Carefully. Think about what the difference between retail fulfillment and a warehouse to support stores is. Unless they are doing retail fulfillment IN australia, each and every order needs to get (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) OK. So I made an assumtion which *may* be false. I've seen nothing from LD about it. (...) My post was'nt a whinge, simply a question directed at anyone who wanted to answer. I should've trimmed .brickfest. (...) Again I *wasn't* dodging (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) It *is* false. (...) Um, does it have to be personally addressed to you before you accept it? I am sorry that I cannot quote Brad's exact words, I did not have permission (or desire) to tape record them... but I am telling you what he said, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately up 'til this point, all I'd seen was the above sentence "Unless they run a fulfilment center, they have to do that doc for each and every order." which doesn't say they *won't* run one, and the original (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Working from memory here, but I believe Brad stated that determining which fulfilment center to ship from (European or US) was one of the decisions that had to be made, so I wouldn't suspect that they plan to warehouse anything in Australia. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Unfortunately, this is the decision that has had to be made for the last 12 months, and has presumably been a big part of the reason for our last two launch dates (actually more like launch windows) being postponed. I was extremely happy to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| Actually, I got the IMPRESSION from what was said that the decision of where to ship from had been made, but Brad didn't specifically tell us which facility would be handling it. Of course, I could just be hallucinating here.... Troy Deidre Rushton (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I'll hope that you weren't hallucinating and that some progress has been made after all, so this could indeed be very good news :) (Well, someone has to be optimistic!) Deidre drb@tasmail.com (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.loc.au)
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