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Subject: 
Business query
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:34:04 GMT
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I noticed quite a number of non-toy items in the sales and deals section of
lego.com
<http://shop.lego.com/SalesAndDeals/Default.aspx?va=1>

If I am not mistaken, these showed up in a catalog for the first time at the
beginning of the summer. (ie: a new product)

It seems like a huge loss of revenue to me - clearancing them out like this, so
quickly.

Does anyone know why a company would do this?  Do they typically just have
budgets in other areas that they need to use up?

This isn't at all a knock on TLG.  I am just trying to understand.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Jonathan



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  Re: Business query
 
(...) It indeed looks like the newly-introduced storage items (and various LEGO-branded merchandise) are listed as being "on sale". While this typically implies (for LEGO S@H) that something is on clearance, I don't believe that is the case with the (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-07, to lugnet.general)

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