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Subject: 
Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:03:33 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote:
<snip>
Yeah, they're a company that needs to focus on its core business - selling toys
to kids.  Messing around with AFOL's is a waste of their time.  No way are
AFOL's going to have any measurable effect on the bottom line, grey or no grey.

5% is 5%.  If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your income, you probably aren't going to
remain CEO long.
Take some business courses, Bill.  You need to get a clue.


True, but how much of that 5% actually cares about the color change enough to
vocally protest?  Based on the discussion here I'd well less than half and
probably more like one tenth (and I think that's even a bit high) of the AFOL
population.

-Orion

P.S. Disagreement is fine, implying a poster is stupid is not.  Please try to be
more polite.



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  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) And your actions, kissing their hindquarters vociferously, will somehow tell them when they might have done something that has upset their paying customers? ENOUGH of the puckering up, Bill. (...) 5% is 5%. If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)

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