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Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
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Date: 
Sat, 26 Aug 2000 01:29:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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

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



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  percentage of adults
 
(...) I would think so, but I recall that Brad Justus once said that they weren't tracking that. It surprised me. He also said that the figures quoted in the Orange County article a few months ago were off by a large margin -- the reporter had wrong (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Eric's Desk makes Page 1 of the Globe and Mail
 
(...) I wanna know where that figure came from before I can believe it. --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)

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