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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 5 Aug 1999 02:46:37 GMT
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Sanjay D'Souza wrote:
> > Suppose you had? You could have ordered a lot more with the profits. The
> > larger the order, the less cost to TLG to fill it.
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> The effort involved in ordering pieces is more than you can image.
Doubtful. I have a very large imagination. Don't forget that I've seen
some incredibly broken business processes in my day, it's what I do for
a living.
> After
> each order I promised myself that that would be my last. As it turned out a
> few months later I would once again be formulating another order.
>
> Keep in mind that large orders take about a month and a half for LEGO NZ to
> process. Prices for each piece (of which there were about 500) have to be
> found using a system of two separate parts books. It's a very difficult
> system to use according to the SPM and not something you'd want to do every
> day.
I'd gladly wait 6 months to get 10,000 windows. I'd gladly sit down and
formulate the order myself if I had access to the information needed to
do so. I'd gladly restrict myself to one order a year if I could be
ordering for everyone else on the net, paying TLG twice what TLG sells
the parts for now, and still making a small profit meeting netters
needs. The market is out there. You lacked the vision to see how to do
this properly, IMHO.
I reiterate, the larger the quantity of parts in the order the less the
cost to TLG. If it takes 5 minutes to look up a blue train window in
some arcane book that 5 minutes is better spent securing 10,000 of the
windows and making both me AND Mike P and every other train head happy
instead of securing 100 and just making YOU happy. If it takes an entire
hour to look it up, that is even more true.
I repeat, you could have made much larger orders without increasing the
number of different parts ordered had you brought others in. That would
have actually SAVED TLG money. All you had to do was think it through.
So you should have kept quiet because my email (in the 1/2 hour since I
posted) is already telling me a lot of USians are pretty annoyed. And
you can drop the whole "the rest of the world pays more and gets less"
line, because after all, you can always move here if you want... you'd
just have to give up free health care, right?
So be happy with all your blue tile. What I've got instead is true bile.
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37A8FB0D.BE3C88...ger.net... (...) The (...) I don't have any intention of being as serious about LEGO as people like yourself are. I marvel at creations you and others like you come up with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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| (...) Hell, me and Larry would gladly rent a dump truck from Michigan, drive it to Enfield, count out the pieces and drive it back ourselves, just to get the opportunity to "make it easier on TLG" and satisfy our Lego urges....(10,000 windows for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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| Larry, have you ever checked into offering your expertise to Lego in setting up a proper bulk ordering process that would be easy enough for those thickheaded people to realize they'd be making a healthy, noticable addition to their profit line? (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37A8E6BE.6903F3...ger.net... (...) I've spoken with the Spare Parts Manager about this numerous times and he agrees that TLG should be making more of an effort to cater for people who wish to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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