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Subject: 
Quality of bricks from "bulk-ordering"
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:46:53 GMT
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Hi Everybody !

I just had a interesting phone call with a Lego-Shop-Owner (in Germany). He
told me that the quality of the bricks which are sold as "bulk-orders" is much
more worse than of bricks used in sets or service packs (also colors are
different which would be a problem building own creations with a mixture of
bricks), does anybody have experiences with these new bulk-order-bricks, are
there any differences or what would you say ?

many thanks
adrian



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Quality of bricks from "bulk-ordering"
 
(...) Why would the quantity in which a brick was sold have *any* bearing on its quality? Sounds to me like this guy doesn't know what he is talking about. I may be all wet but I can say that *I* have not observed this. BTW, it think it would be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Quality of bricks from "bulk-ordering"
 
(...) cant believe Lego would deliberately sell inferior bricks via a bulk ordering process. Lego seem to take pride in quality. Why would they run two machines side by side, 'set bricks' and 'bulk bricks'? Cost cannot be that much of a factor. They (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Quality of bricks from "bulk-ordering"
 
I've ordered about 6 different kinds of parts packs from bulk ordering and the quality of all of them was excellent. I noticed no difference between the bricks in the bulk orders and the ones you might find in sets. Brad Adriling (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)

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