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(...) Blink blink. How so? <quoted from the lugnet.announce charter> lugnet.announce (group): General-interest announcements to the community (breaking news about products, releases, contests, events, and sites, etc.); also, important LUGNET (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
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(...) Keith: Actually, it was like totally ON-topic. --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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this was like totally off topic here.. Suzanne D. Rich wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I tend to keep the outer shell, and inner tray - which I use for storage of my parts. Plastic bags are easilly substituted with ziplock type bags if you were trying to recreate a set. Plastic trays I used to keep, but these took up so much (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Exactly, bulk parts are unlikely to be economically viable for TLG, especially if they were cheaper than sets on a per piece basis. Bulk parts should demand a premium which those building huge models (castles) would be willing to pay in order (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry :) (...) Ok. No problem, no grudges. (...) No, I don't necessarily disagree with that...(and I probably don't want to be making guesses as to what motivates TLG :) My major disagreement was with the assertion that it would be possible to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Todd, I think you and I are just going to have to agree to disagree on this. I don't think that TLG would have any motivation to sell to individuals in the bulk amounts that you are suggesting, but if you think otherwise, well, hey... maybe (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Common for most of the points. I only keep one copy of each diferent catalog/brochure, only the outer shells for smaller sets, but also trays for bigger ones, and certainly none of the bags (except at least one copy of not-boxed, I mean (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Profit dynamics of bulk purchases
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Todd & All; Excellent discussion regarding bulk brick sales. In certain political circles, I know if say corporation A gives 10 people $1,000 each to give to a candidate that supports them, while the maximum contribution is $1,000, it is illegal and (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Think. Toystore writes $25,250 cashier's check to individual. Individual deposits check and writes new cashier's check to LSI for $25,000. LSI delivers bulk elements to individual. Individual delivers bulk elements to toystore. In other words, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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