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Re: Quality of bricks from "bulk-ordering"
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 05:45:52 GMT
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Hi Adrian, Hi all...
lawrence wilkes wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Adrian Rohnfelder writes:
> > 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 ?
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> 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 must know that the AFOLs who pressed for bulk ordering are going to be
> the most picky bunch.
I've ordered quite a few of these bulk bricks, and the only things that are of
inferior quality are the bizarre polybags they put the bulk bricks in. The grey
bricks are identical to the ones I have, and the colour is indistinguishable--and
that's across 45 packs of 2x4s.
> Sounds more like the German shop owner doesnt want you buying your bricks from
> Lego direct instead of him!!
I agree--it does sound that way. Er sprecht falsch (at the very least).
> I hope not anyway. Cant talk from experience but have several hundred windows
> on order! So I hope they match the ones I've got.
Mine do. I think you're in for a happy time.
best
LFB
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