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Bulk purchases
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:23:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) writes:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:39:47 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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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?
It wouldn't (and that wasn't the implication). The question was a
rhetorical one, in response to Mark Tarrabain's comment
"Further, there could be little incentive for a person to purchase from
any individuals who were to try this because they can easily become
members in the club themselves and get discounts directly from LEGO."
which was in response to Steve Scott's observation/prediction
"If I was a Lego retailer, I would object to TLG selling direct to a group
of people who have the means to sub-distribute (via the web) at a profit.
Who's to say that any product sold to RTL'ers won't find it's way back on
to the open market at a profit."
Clarification: Mark's comment is only valid if the minimum purchase
quantity is very, very small (say 10 or 20). In any bulk purchasing
arrangement, there has to be -some- minimum purchase quantity. If that
minimum is noticeably higher than the quantities typically desired by
individual people, then there will be, as Scott correctly notes, elements
finding their way back onto the open market at a profit.
Even at minimum quantity levels as low as 100 -- and I think the actual
minimum would be more like 1000 or 10000 before TLG would even consider
doing it -- there would still be plenty of room for people to buy things by
the 100 and re-sell them in packs of 10 for a profit. It would just happen.
--Todd
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: TLG investigation
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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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