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Re: Stunning new Maersk set?
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Date: 
Fri, 14 May 2004 14:04:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Scott wrote:
In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
But as expected, it will only be available through Maersk Sealand...
ok, so how do we get one then? Do we need to ship some cargo with them or
something? :)

I spoke to Maersk marketing today and was told that they are only distributed as
"gifts" to cargo shipping clients via the Maersk corporate sales team :(

Figures...Lego will only sell these to Maersk, and Maersk will only give them
away to their buddies...sounds like a crock of crap to me.

mutters under breath... "not surprising Lego lost money last year, it
has lost its good marketing sense.  Give people good sets, and stop catering
exclusively to their corporate partners."

At least hire better lawyers, so that when the contract is finished, then
be allowed to make additional sets and market them on shop@home.
To me deals like this make me sick.  Its like they thumbing their noses at
all their customers...sure we have capacity to sell you what we want, but
we are not going to, so too frickin' bad!!

In my opinion, the maersk set has got to be the best or one of the best
sets Lego has made this year, and NOT available to the general public.
Bah!!  KKK should step down, and all the management team except Jake and
Kate should be fired!!

Sorry...for the rant, but this really makes me mad.

Ben, a life-long lego fan



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Stunning new Maersk set?
 
(snippage) (...) If it indeed will be a shop@home exclusive afterall... and so far no official word, then I take back what I say. (...) (and whose sorry for making a brash post and replying to his own original posting) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Stunning new Maersk set?
 
(...) *SNIP* (...) No Maersk set has every been made avalible to the general public. Ever - only via Maersk itself (how you manage that I have no idea!) (Maybe its some legal thing between Lego and Maersk) cheers (21 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Stunning new Maersk set?
 
(...) Wait, where did it say you had some sort of god-given right to have a promotional item paid for by Maersk, an international shipping firm? That's right, too frickin bad. This isn't something moral like not selling HIV drugs to African (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Stunning new Maersk set?
 
(...) I spoke to Maersk marketing today and was told that they are only distributed as "gifts" to cargo shipping clients via the Maersk corporate sales team :( (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.general)

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