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Re: Profit dynamics of bulk purchases
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:37:42 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:57:35 GMT, "Matthew Bates"
<train_depot@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I really don't see what all this fuss is about, toy stores aren't interested
> in selling bulk bricks. You used to be able to buy bulk bricks (supplementary
> packs I think they were called) in UK toy shops but not any more, there isn't
> enough demand.
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> The demand is here, on the Web. The solution is simple, you join the club, you
> put in your bulk order using a web interface, if the parts are in stock they
> ship them to you [1], if not, when other people order a sufficient quantity of
> the same parts to justify a production run, the computer [2] spits out a
> request to the Lego factory and they get made and shipped to you. If your
> order is too small and/or weird you never get the parts - tough.
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> I don't expect the parts to be incredibly cheap, but I just want to pay for
> what I want. If you were to order the parts that make up a 400 piece bucket I
> would expect it to cost a bit more than $5.99, so why would toystores be
> interested in buying bricks off you? OK, so they might want to get adventurous
> and stock more specialised pieces but as soon as you get into anything more
> complicated than basic bricks you are talking hundreds, if not thousands or
> stock items, a complete nightmare for a toystore.
Minifigs. And their accessories. Stores would stock these, I'll bet.
We haven't had a minifig set for Space in quite awhile.
Steve
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <36c9baa1.4738502@lu...et.com>... (...) Probably because they're not putting out any mini-fig sets that can't be composed of primary characters that everyone already has. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I really don't see what all this fuss is about, toy stores aren't interested in selling bulk bricks. You used to be able to buy bulk bricks (supplementary packs I think they were called) in UK toy shops but not any more, there isn't enough demand. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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