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Re: Lego Factory sets released
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:14:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote:
> One question, tho - does anyone have any idea how this might affect Bricklink
> sellers? If I can create my own custom model and have Lego send me the parts,
> that makes me less likely to look for those parts on Bricklink.
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> Of course, Lego might charge more for the parts than they sell for on Bricklink!
John-
TLC makes 1000s of elements in 100+ (hopefully to be cut in half) colors. That's
a lot of theoretical permutations. In any one year, they hardly manufacture a
few percent of the possibilities. If they don't make it, we can't buy it (and so
far, we can only "bulk" buy a few percent of the parts they make in one year,
i.e., we can buy a few percent of a few percent).
So, as long as ABS doesn't spontaneously disintegrate, there will be a plenty of
need for BrickLink to shuffle non-current parts around the community. And for
current parts, the BL sellers breaking down huge numbers of new sets at close
outprices will always be cheaper than buying from TLC. I see no real impact at
all, except for the onesy, twosy buyer of new parts, which makes no real impact
anyway.
-Ted
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| (...) I'm practically *drooling* at the thought of this... One question, tho - does anyone have any idea how this might affect Bricklink sellers? If I can create my own custom model and have Lego send me the parts, that makes me less likely to look (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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