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Re: Met a LEGO rep...
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 5 Dec 1998 04:31:06 GMT
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CJC@ihatespamNEWSGUY.COM
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Lee Jorgensen <ljorgensen@uswest.net> wrote:
> Hmmm ... I would think that our (small) segment of the market brings in more
> dollars per person that kids do ... we have jobs. :)
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> Also, I would say that our purchases are larger sets or higher volume on small
> sets.
I make more than any 10 eight year olds, sure. But those 10 kids have
10 sets of parents who probably make more than I do, and larger
extended families that, combined, certainly make more than I do.
I probably spent at least $3k, possibly much more (don't feel like
opening Quicken) on Lego sets this year. I'm one of 3 adult fans of
Lego that I know about in the Knoxville area and I know for a fact I
outspent one of them, possibly both. But even if all 3 of us spent
$3k each, I can almost guarantee that the kids in Knoxville as a whole
had more than $9k spent on them in Lego toys alone. Probably 10 times
that or more.
So yeah, I can outspend any single kid's family, and probably do
outspend any 10 normal kid's families (on Lego stuff anyway - I wasn't
lucky enough to have my parents buy me hundreds or thousands of
dollars in toys every year and I assume the same is true of most
lower to middle class families), but there are a whole heckuva lot
more kids in the world than there are AFOL's. :)
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