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Bulk pieces
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:23:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote:
> > Back in the olden days (early 80's) when TLG did provide very limited
> > bulk orders (it was not easy to do because they didn't want to do a
> > lot of it), there was a 100 piece order minimum.
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> Wow, a 100 of any given piece is nothing.
On plates and bricks and normal stuff it sure isn't much, but I heard a story
on RTL a few years ago from someone who'd bought 100 brown horses back in the
late 80's when TLG was still doing these bulk sales. 100 horses sounds like a
pretty good number...
> I can think of a dozen pieces and minifigs (or just torsos and heads) I'd
> want more than 100 of.
I can think of some large dome pieces that 100 of would probably be too many!
:) 100 monorail switches would definitely be too many. (But 100 monorail
incline-decline pieces would still never be enough. :)
> And if they started this up again I'm sure that those who only wanted
> 2 or 5 could arrange something with those who wanted more.
That's the funny/ironic thing about it all -- even if TLG resumed bulk sales
(and I hope they can figure out a way to do it) the way they did before (by the
100), there's still plenty of room for people band together to work around the
minimum-quantity issue or for an intermediary to split things up into sub-100
units. I think there will always be parts auctions.
--Todd
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| (...) Wow, a 100 of any given piece is nothing. I can think of a dozen pieces and minifigs (or just torsos and heads) I'd want more than 100 of. And if they started this up again I'm sure that those who only wanted 2 or 5 could arrange something (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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