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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:03:58 GMT
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Gary,
You know, I was discussing this with my roommates and I said, I bet Gary Istok
and maybe Larry P. would order about 50,000 of the 2x2 white cylinder pieces.
Looks like I wasn't too far off.
Scott Sanburn
Gary Istok wrote:
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> Thanks for the info John, very informative.
>
> If we got group orders in bulks of 50,000 or 100,000, would that be enough to
> justify a special run of specialty pieces (such as 1x2x2 windows, 2x2 cylinder
> bricks, 2x2 tiles)?
>
> Gary Istok
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> john kelly wrote:
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> > (Sorry for the length of this thing....)
> >
> > Well said.
> >
> > When I was in Enfield, I had the misfortune of having to be on the element
> > team in a rotation. (We all had to share some of the element misfortune on a
> > rotating basis.) It was very very tedious. It would take all afternoon and
> > sometimes all day for the element team to be able to place an order. You need
> > to find what the part numbers you need are. You need to find the color code.
> > You need to find if the US had it in inventory. (Phone call to inventory
> > manager, he looks at his book for the type of piece, then at another book to
> > see if he has in inventory, then confirms it's on the shelf.) Call back to
> > you. If not in Enfield, send note to Demark. Wait for reply. Call again and
> > try to reach someone on phone who speaks english. Confirm product. (If they
> > have it. if not, too bad.) Get shipped on boat to US. (Wait 4-6 weeks for
> > delivery) It was miserable.
> >
> > Unless LEGO has gotten better logistics for inventory since I left, they'd be
> > crazy to try to bulk order. They don't have a strong enough system to meet
> > the demand. Should they update the system? SOunds wonderful. Will they?
> > doubtful. LEGO tries hard not to have excess inventory in bricks, they very
> > rarely had anything other than basic bricks available in the US. Other parts
> > were special ordered, but more often than not they will still be unavailable
> > in the quantities needed to build a model. So we'd scrap that idea and find
> > another way to do it. You might be able to get LEGO to do bulk ordering of
> > bricks through a centralized source, but I would doubt you'd be able to get
> > anyhting other than 1x and 2x bricks and plates. There just isn't an
> > inventory position on any other pieces that would satisfy a world market. And
> > you would need to order hundreds of K8's to make a molding run worthwhile to
> > LEGO.
> >
> > (We tried as a model shop and we could not find a use for enough bricks to
> > make the run worthwhile to us and we bought at production cost. The only run
> > we ever made was for 50 K8's of black Duplo 2x4 blocks because they were
> > running them at the time.)
> >
> > Now with most model shops being eliminated or cut back, there is even less
> > demand for any pieces outside of what they need to produce the sets. (Enfield
> > model shop from around 35 to 9 last month as part of the fitness program.)
> >
> > As a member of GMLTC, there is nothing more I'd like than to be able to bulk
> > order grey 2x10s. Nothing is more fustrating than being able to build with as
> > many grey 2x12s and green 2x4s as I wanted and then be reduced to red 2x4s for
> > landscape. I hope that someday they firgure out a way to do it. But my guess
> > is that they have evaluated this with better information than anyone here has
> > and found it to be not worth the inventory risk.
> >
> > -john 3
> >
> > In lugnet.general, John Neal writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Tim Courtney wrote:
> > >
> > > > <snip flame>
> > > >
> > > > There's ABSOLUTELY NO POINT in carrying this any further.
> > >
> > > The facts as I see them:
> > >
> > > 1. Sanjay had some good fortune
> > > 2. Many envied Sanjay, although were happy for him
> > > 3. Some perceived a little gloating
> > > 4. Sanjay is a good guy
> > > 5. Larry is a good guy
> > > 6. Most (all?) would love the opportunity to order bulk
> > > 7. TLG is clueless
> > >
> > > Tim is right; we are getting out of hand. Hurtful things are starting to get • said
> > > and that's not how to play well:-)
> > >
> > > -John
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| Scott, that 50,000 or 100,000 was for the whole group. I probably wouldn't want more than 1 or 2 thousand just for me. They make great columns in classic or neoclassic buildings. But I don't have plans to build the Roman Forum (just yet). Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Thanks for the info John, very informative. If we got group orders in bulks of 50,000 or 100,000, would that be enough to justify a special run of specialty pieces (such as 1x2x2 windows, 2x2 cylinder bricks, 2x2 tiles)? Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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