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Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
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Date: 
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:37:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
SRC <SteveRC@StarTrekMail.com> wrote:
I too found that very interesting.  As 10% of the market - and certainly
the pickiest 10% - perhaps we can now hope for better sets...

Yeah, I'm actually surprised -- that's a bigger number than I expected.
What's more, they say 1 in 10 Lego buyers -- not 10% of the money. And I
think it's fairly safe to assume that the average adult fan spends
significantly more than the average kid/parent. Maybe not ten times more,
but at least twice.

I wanna know where that figure came from before I can believe it.

--Todd



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  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) Yes, good point. Personally, I believe everything I read.... (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) Don't you think they would try to track things like that? That number is probably based on tracking data from their own stores and S@H since that's the only place they could easially do it. KL (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) I'd see it as a combination of two things: Mindstorms (remember that 50% of registration cards were from adults who'd purchased it for themselves) and Star Wars (tapping into the 20-something-with-lo...le-income- (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) Perhaps it just means that 1 in 10 buyers is an adult. This would not be surprising at all, and we would be wrong to presume that all adults are buying it for themselves like we do. In any event, how would they track something like that? When (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) Yeah, I'm actually surprised -- that's a bigger number than I expected. What's more, they say 1 in 10 Lego buyers -- not 10% of the money. And I think it's fairly safe to assume that the average adult fan spends significantly more than the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)

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