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Re: Did Bricklink make Lego bulk sales irrelevent?
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Date: 
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:55:10 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas Stangl wrote:
When I lived in CA, LLC was in my own state.  It was also 440 miles from me, not
an afternoon drive (OK, for me, it was, once, but I didn't make a habit of it).

Many people on Lugnet can be that far, or much farther, away from any
official Lego store.

Yep, I was surprised when it was mentioned in the other thread they are opening
one in Glendale.  Why not Northern California?  Assuming Tom lived somewhere
around San Jose that would make my distance from LLC over 500 miles.  And having
to drive through the Bay Area tacks on a couple of extra hours these days, so
it's *not* an afternoon drive.

Thank goodness for S@H.

Maggie C.

So even if the LIC/Lego store is in your own state, that doesn't mean that it is
accessible.  Most people can't afford to take off of work for a day or 2 and put
1000 miles on their car just to shop for Lego.



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  Re: Did Bricklink make Lego bulk sales irrelevent?
 
Yeah, but you get to skip most of the Bay Area by taking 5 - normally, at least the first hour of my trip to LLC from Sunnyvale was just getting to 152 to get to 5. Sometimes 2 hours. Once I made it to 5, I flew - made it in 5.5 hours once, from my (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Did Bricklink make Lego bulk sales irrelevent?
 
You know, there's always a lot of talk in the news about how well Europeans know geography and Americans don't. But soooo many Europeans just don't seem to grok the scale of the US, the distances that can be involved. My nearest LIC is in Orlando. (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.general)

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