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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:29:54 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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.
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> > 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.
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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 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.
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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. 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.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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> NOTE: I have left CTP, effective 18 June 99, and my CTP email
> will not work after then. Please switch to my Novera ID.
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 me, 10,000 for you, and 10,000 2x2 white cylinders for me and 10,000
for you.......)
Gary Istok
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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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)
| | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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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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| (...) 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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