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Re: TLG investigation
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 02:41:52 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.
Exactly, bulk parts are unlikely to be economically viable for TLG, especially
if they were cheaper than sets on a per piece basis. Bulk parts should demand a
premium which those building huge models (castles) would be willing to pay in
order to obtain enough parts (wall sections) without all the useless (to them)
other parts included in sets.
Only simpler/common-medium parts should be available in bulk, the rarer/more
complex parts continuing to be sold as in the European service catalogue, with
a low minimum order on bulk parts in kgs.
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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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