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(...) 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. (...) I'd gladly wait 6 months to get 10,000 windows. I'd gladly sit down and formulate (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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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)
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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)
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I'll take my seats out of the Suburban and come along, if you need some help! :) Scott "Wishes he could fill his Suburban with a bulk order" Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Heck, I've got a cousin with a semi....I'll pick you guys up as I drive out from California, right? Enough technic beams, chains and tracks to build a BIG roller coaster And train stuff too..... Paul Sinasohn (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gary, you've got a bigger problem than picking & loading -- you'll have to go into the manufacturing plant, find the molds, and cast your own classic windows. Then you can count and load. Steve (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, I could see me now. Going to Billund with some pick axes and air hammers and dismantling part of the company headquarters complex looking for the classic window & door molds. (They dispose of their old molds by incorporating them into (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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Gary, if they listened to us and started selling bulk, I wouldn't be surprised to see a posting from you saying you paid to have new classic window molds made ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have thought about it but unless I could show a business plan that, based on quantitative factors alone, delivered more marginal profit than their current approach, I suspect it would fail. From a purely quant perspective, it's not enough to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The easiest thing to do would be to convince TLG that selling to organized Groups is just like handling any other order...except that the Groups' orders could be filled directly from storage bins. BUT if the assembly/packing lines at Enfield (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) packaging (...) counting (...) But what about the model design teams who have bins of the same part in their waarehouse? That's their personal collection, but there's apparently a way of collecting one type of part for storage. And there's the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) represented (...) That (...) In the storage area for bricks in the Model Shop at Legoland CA there are boxes of the same brick. Each box is about 18x18x24 and just has a sticker with a picture of the piece and the color. I picked one up and it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Sorry everyone. I forgot to clean up the bottom of the last post. I'll try not to do it again. Bryce McGlone (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That sounds like they believe that they can make more $ selling the parts in sets. That way, the uninitiated will buy entire sets, and carry the cost of the parts they don't want themselves. Thus TLG sells far more than they would if they just (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It is only too small if they do a rotten job of marketing it. If the info on ordering were in every set, and they had an easy online ordering system, I'm sure the market would grow rapidly. (...) Not true. TLG sells a set to TRU, they make a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) sure the market would grow rapidly. It's more than the size - it's also the potential to reduce other sales where the buyer (remember, I'm talking about their real customer base - kids) buy parts they don't need in sets just to get the parts (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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