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FWIW, I only keep the box itself (the outside shell, with the printing on it). I don't keep any of the plastic bags or plastic trays. And if I buy a used set in an auction that says 'with box', I only assume that they have the outer shell of the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think the point here is largely mute, since (call me cynical) even if TLG beefs up its offering of parts for club members, it seems to me very unlikely that they would make available each piece currently in production. So it simply wouldn't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, unless a set is New-In-Box, I wouldn't expect the holey bags or the catalogs to be there. Maybe I'm an exception, but I doubt it. The plastic inlays of the (very) large boxes, that's a different thing. I'd want those to be there. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And why would having a few thousand of, say, any particular part stop the sale of sets? Anyway, if sets generally have costs /part of $.10-$.20, Why not make the bulk ordering service at $.25/piece, for the medium-hard-to-get pieces, $.50-$1 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I'm thoroughly confuzzed. :) I thought Jacob said that an LDU = 1/4 LU, which would have been in reference to the LU which means 1/5 of the inter- stud spacing and 1/6 of a standard brick height. So a Jessiman LDU = 1/40 of the standard (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:59:32 GMT, Simon Robinson uttered the following profundities... (...) They still have 2 dozen of these at the Hayes TRU. They had started the sale off with about a gross (or so it seemed). (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:56:50 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) Our political parties are still tearing their guts out over the issue. Despite the fact that it is the best thing for everyone (60% or more of our (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How far does that go toward stopping an individual from buying $25,000 in bulk bricks and reselling these to a local toystore for $25,250? (The profit is only $250 on the transaction. Not bad for about 1 hour of work. :-) Any restriction (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Almost. 1/20 Gyugyi LU = *1* Jessiman LDU = .4 mm. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, for one thing, memberships would only be available to individuals, not corporations. Although this wouldn't necessarily stop a person from doing this altogether, it would put a cap on the amount of profit that they would be allowed to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Day 1, but not every article. (...) Jeff Crites started one. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What would it take for them to police/enforce such a requirement? (...) What if someone wanted to buy 500 gray 2x4 bricks and there was a minimum purchase requirement of 10,000? --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Just curious, how far back have you archived RTL? Wasn't someone going to do a history of RTL at one point? (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's impossible to know for sure, but I'd suppose there are somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 total readers, all things considered (that is, lurkers and overlap between known sets of people due to multiple e-mail addresses). Some details: ~700 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I used to work in the toy department of a large department store. The markup on almost all of our stuff between our cost and final retail price was about 100%. Some was even more. (...) This shouldn't be an issue. TLG can easily have a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder how much some of TLG new lines (some of which are fairly decent ideas) suffer from being launched all at once. Look at the Divers line. There are 12 sets, which are all more alike than different. It seems like every set had a sub (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Let me see then -- so 1/20 of a Gyugyi LU is equal to 1/2 of a Gyugyi dLU is equal to 2 Jessiman LDU? (...) :) --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I saw the same thing on the UFO sets, but it has been two model years for the sets (At least in the US), and usually, some retailers mark them down if they stay on the shelves. I thought the UFO's were decent (They had some great parts!) but the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone else got the impression that the UFO's that were withdrawn this year might have completely flopped saleswise? I've seen tons of the two biggest UFO's going cheap. At the most extreme, Toys R Us had the second (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mookie, If you work through this again, let me know what results (ie, errors) you get. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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