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Re: TLG investigation
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:03:41 GMT
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Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:39:47 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
> wrote:
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> > What if someone wanted to buy 500 gray 2x4 bricks and there was a minimum
> > purchase requirement of 10,000?
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> And why would having a few thousand of, say, any particular part stop
> the sale of sets? Anyway, if sets generally have costs /part of
> $.10-$.20, Why not make the bulk ordering service at $.25/piece, for
> the medium-hard-to-get pieces, $.50-$1 for the _really_ rare parts (in
> current production, that is), and $0.10 for basic bricks. That makes
> buckets still cheaper for bricks in general, but it'd be easier to get
> a whole lotta bricks in a certain color from the bulk brick service.
> Also, it means that it would not be cheaper to put sets together from
> bulk parts than ordering them directly.
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> Anyway, just a few random thoughts.
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> Jasper
I think the point here is largely mute, since (call me cynical)
even if TLG beefs up its offering of parts for club members,
it seems to me very unlikely that they would make available
each piece currently in production. So it simply wouldn't
be possible to recreate the set from bulk parts. Make no mistake,
I would love to be proven wrong... But I just can't see it
happening. Now having said that, the above seems like the
best solution to meet the needs of all parties involved, for
whatever selection they do decide to offer.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Jim
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| (...) And why would having a few thousand of, say, any particular part stop the sale of sets? Anyway, if sets generally have costs /part of $.10-$.20, Why not make the bulk ordering service at $.25/piece, for the medium-hard-to-get pieces, $.50-$1 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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