 | | E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Bill Farkas
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| | | Just passing this along in case anyone's interested. I wrote a long message about being concerned that they are pricing themselves out of existence, here's what I got back: Dear LEGO® Builder, Thanks for your recent comments. LEGO toys are molded (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | RE: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) ... (...) Wow, not Susan Williams! I'm surprised you even got a reply. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) ...by this time, how old do you expect Susan Williams to be?? I forgot to ask them when I was there if they had a statue made of LEGO of Susan in their Consumer Affairs Dept., it'd be funny if they did :) -Tim (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) <snip> Thanks for the post! I think that's standard form letter #39 (I'm guessing as to the number, but no apologies to those who take umbrage at guessing, you'll just have to deal). Was your letter specific, giving examples of particular sets (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Bill Farkas
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| | | | (...) Here are some snippets of my letter to them: Hello, Thank you for taking the time to consider my note. I have been a Lego Maniac for some twenty years now. I am currently 35 years old and am raising my 7 year old son to follow in my (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) <snip> (thanks!) Yep, I'm more convinced than ever it was a form letter, it doesn't directly mention any of your points or answer them, just gives a stock "why we're worth a lot" answer. No one argues that point, we don't mind paying for (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: E-mailed Lego about high prices - got this response: —Bill Farkas
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| | | | (...) Exactly. I as much as made the quality argument myself by saying I still had Lego from twenty years ago. (...) I was in TRU the other day hunting clearance sales when a family with two toddlers said, "Oh look, Legos. Do you want some Legos?" (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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