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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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Thu, 5 Aug 1999 03:39:21 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
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> Sanjay D'Souza wrote:
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> > > 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.
> >
> > The effort involved in ordering pieces is more than you can image.
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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 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
simply because I don't have the creative horsepower nor the time to do so.
I'm sure you have a large imagination and you've proven it with the
creations you showcase on your site but spending long hours on the PC
formatting pictures of parts and double checking and triple checking part
numbers ain't my cup of tea.
> 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.
My goal was to complete my modest town project. You no doubt have much,
much bigger projects sitting on the back burner waiting for right pieces in
the right quantities to turn up. Why should I be expected to make up for
the short comings of TLG's current range of services?
For you to state that I lacked vision is somewhat insulting but then again I
you can say what you want. Comments like that don't bother me. I can see
where you're coming from. I made mention numerous time to the SPM that the
market was there but the final decision is TLG's not mine.
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> 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 agree with the first point. The issue is not so much with the quantity of
parts ordered but the range of parts being ordered. As for making train
heads happy why limit it to just train heads? Isn't that being rather
selfish as well? Why not include Technic, Town, Duplo, Paradisa, Znap fans.
But therein lies the problem. I couldn't possibly hope to cater for one
group of people and not others. And even if I did the range of pieces that
all groups would want would easily top 500.
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> 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.
Why would I care if it saved TLG money when it's my time being spend
preparing these orders. In the end I was glad to have helped out 4 other
LEGO enthusiasts who I consider friends so it wasn't just me, myself and I.
There was a limit to the size of order one could process. A fellow NZ AFOL
had once tried to process through an order of US$30,000 for a US AFOL which
was rejected. I don't think I came close to the limit but if I did bring in
more people then none of my orders would have gone through.
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> 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.
Understandable. But why should I have kept quiet? This relates to LEGO
doesn't it? People may accuse me of showing off. Fine. But I'm sure there
are many more who are glad this is out in the open. If you feel bitter,
twisted whatever that's for you to deal with. Don't expect me to feel sorry
or feel remorse for posting what I did. Otherwise what's the point of
Lugnet or RTL if you can't post LEGO related issues.
> 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?
No doubt the US is a great country with great people but who in their right
mind would want to leave a country up to it's eyeballs in sheep, a country
upon which Xena and Hercules roam, a country which is about to see an
invasion of goblins and elfs and other lord's of rings?
Sanjay
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