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Subject: 
Re: Competition is getting rough
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:03:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eugene Ipavec writes:
I don't know if this would interest anyone, but the Best-Lock website is
featuring a sort of expose of alleged evildoing on the behalf of LEGO.  It
claims that the idea for the brick was stolen from some Briton. Sour grapes or
something, I guess.

Perhaps. More likely it's some sort of negative marketing tactic.

I don't think I've ever seen a company cast aspersions on the competition
through its own website like this, but then again I don't get around much.  Is
this sort of thing common?

This is common behavior for everyone that isn't in the #1 slot. Even if it was
stolen, there's too much water under the bridge for anything of significance
to be done about it.

Even if it were, it is still rather unsubtle and impolite.

It definitely is reflection of class, or the lack thereof.

-Tom McD.
when replying, thanks for making spamcake number one on the post office wall!



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I don't know if this would interest anyone, but the Best-Lock website is featuring a sort of expose of alleged evildoing on the behalf of LEGO. It claims that the idea for the brick was stolen from some Briton. Sour grapes or something, I guess. I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)  

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