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Re: Martians in the Mail?
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Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:29:47 GMT
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About 3 weeks ago I received two of these in the mail. One address to my 2
year old daughter and one to my dog. Both are subscribers to Lego Mania
magazine and neither has ever ordered from Lego S&H. I did not receive one
even though I too am a subscriber but I have purchased from S&H. I wonder
if it is to try to get people to buy lego from them directly.
Glen
In lugnet.general, Jonathan Mizner writes:
> In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron writes:
> > At my mom's yesterday there was a letter for my son from LEGO. (He gets his
> > Mania Magazine there.) The envelope said, "Prepare for the invasion! Free
> > sample." Inside was a polybag with one of those new Martian minifigs inside.
> > (No set number was on the bag.) My mom couldn't say for sure when the letter
> > came, only "fairly recently".
> >
> > Has anyone else gotten one of these? My other son and my recently deceased
> > cat, who get their Mania Magazines at our house, haven't received anything, but
> > I'm hoping all subscribers will be getting one.
> >
> > Maggie C.
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> I am glad to find out more about this. Hopefully Lego isn't reading
> this... A few weeks ago I went to Imagination Center and asked about the
> four polybag sets. They thought they had them, and went to go check. They
> brought about a dozen of those polybag Martians to the counter. They then
> gave them to me, saying that they couldn't sell them because they were
> without a barcode. When I called the next day, they had recieved
> instructions from Lego to give them away free with each LOM purchase (100 or
> so of these Martians in stock). But that's not the end of the story. I
> called up Customer Service and they told me that those Martians were part of
> a promotional/giveaway to some sort of club involved with Lego. A Builder's
> Club, or else just the Mania Magazine subscribers, I'm not sure. Customer
> Service was very suspicious about where I got those Martians, and then
> wanted to know about Lunget when I mentioned "an on-line Lego site". I
> didn't tell them about Lugnet, and then they wanted to know my name. So I
> said "Goodbye" and hung up. My motto: Never deal with Customer Serivce. I
> sent one of those Martians to Huw, by the way, so within a few weeks he
> should be adding it to his site. Anyone else seen these rare polybags? I
> will go ahead and post the picture to Brickshelf in a few minutes too.
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| I received two of these polybags in the mail and I do have a subscription to Mania Magazine and I have ordered *LOTS* of sets from S@H. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who was very happy to get two in one mailing! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I am glad to find out more about this. Hopefully Lego isn't reading this... A few weeks ago I went to Imagination Center and asked about the four polybag sets. They thought they had them, and went to go check. They brought about a dozen of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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