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Spare Parts Service - How it works —Sanjay D'Souza

What happens when you phone up your local LEGO branch and ask for a replacement LEGO piece? Below is a brief description of the setup that existed in the Spare Parts Section of LEGO NZ. 1) Phone call would come in from a customer asking for part x. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Mark Harrison

Hi Sanjay, Does that mean that all the pieces from the model room at Lego NZ will be transfered to Australia or will they just dump them? That's what Lego Australia did when they moved from large premises to their current smaller premises. Tonnes of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Todd Lehman

(...) , Legocide! :-( ' Mark, I know exactly how you must feel. Ruthlessness doesn't even begin to capture the levels of corporate mental retardation required to carry out an action so abominable. However, for what it's worth, I can assure people (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

The shortsighted stupid wastefulness of TLG (was Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego —Larry Pieniazek

Consider what TLG would do, if, hypothetically, a fire broke out in their storeroom, say at the MoA, and smoke damaged their entire stock, contained in a 25 by 50 foot storeroom underneath the floor of the store. My vision is that they would hire (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: The shortsighted stupid wastefulness of TLG (was Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego —Lindsay Frederick Braun

Hi, everyone-- Well, after two months, I'm back in the good ol' US of A and (more importantly) able to post. I was unfortunately limited in what I could buy while in the UK and on the Continent because of container space, but I still found some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

Everything in the spare parts area is being packed up and sent to Australia where it will become the property of the spare parts department of LEGO Australia. Sanjay Mark Harrison <harro1@one.net.au> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Steve Bliss

(...) Ooo. Best time to strike--while it's in transit. You think they'd mind if we just left a check for the (several tonnes of) parts? ;) for everyone. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:37b826ab.862059...net.com... (...) Australia (...) In actual fact I don't think the bods at LEGO NZ would have mind someone coming in and paying for the parts being sent to Australia. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Steve Bliss

(...) Quick! Let's take up a collection! :) Seriously, if I was in NZ, I'd be willing to help out with coordination & execution of such an undertaking. It's just my rotten luck to be here, on the wrong side of the planet. If Sanjay really wants to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —John Neal

(...) Sssh. *Sanjay's* wife might hear you;-) -John (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Mark de Kock

(...) It would make a *GREAT* Jambalaya box! Mark "I live close to the old Zealand, does that count?" de Kock (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

Mark <Mkock@spammed.Tulip.com> wrote in message news:FGoGy4.Ay4@lugnet.com... (...) Umm.....being Old Zealand I assume it's filled with cobwebs and dust everywhere. Here in new Zealand everything is sparkling and brand spanking new. ;--) Sanjay "I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Mark de Kock

(...) Hmmm... so my choice of words is bad... But still, I want in on the a(u)ction! Lots o' Lego. Mark "I live close to the ORIGINAL Zealand, that should count!" de Kock (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

I'm not sure if Steve is serious about this but my replies given below. Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:37baf5a9.792395...net.com... (...) I'll find out how much the spm thinks his spare parts are worth and the mass. I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Larry Pieniazek

I can put up financing for a significant part of this if something comes of it. Keep me in the loop. All I ask in return is a small profit, and the blue windows... :-) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

Just spoken to the spm. His gut feeling is somewhere in the region of US$4000 to $5000 BUT he reckons the managers' (who although consider the whole lot to be a plastic junk) would value the spare parts much, much higher. How much higher I don't (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I'd want some rough idea of what was there and some sort of rough idea of the per piece cost. I don't want 5000 dollars worth of belville suitcases and starfish at a dollar a piece! But I just freed up a chunk of capital so... (...) Yes, let's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Sanjay D'Souza

I'll endeavour to get a breakdown of the parts available but I'm not making any promises that I'll be able to get a good enough deal on the whole lot should it contain a large number of valuable parts. I haven't been able to establish if the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Paul Sinasohn

I could easily free up about $500 or so, and i'd like to participate. I have space it could be stored/sorted in too.... Paul Sinasohn (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Tom Stangl

Yeah, and we have TONS of BayLUG people that could sort ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Adam Howard

Put me down for $500 too. I don't have space to sort it all, but I could sort a couple of large freestyle bucket loads. Adam Howard Paul Sinasohn <bearitone@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:FGqLE5.1q6@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Naji Norder

(...) Wow. That's much lower than we were expecting... Marcia and I could probably swing several hundred dollars for it. (Rent - what rent?) (...) If there aren't enough people in New Zealand to split it up by weight, it should all be shipped en (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Paul Foster

(...) could (...) I think there is a bigger concentration in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. There are over a dozen regular/semi-regular posters and at least another 6 to 12 folks that lurk. Hmmm, I bet Todd could break that down. Paul (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Naji Norder

(...) for (...) Yeah, I actually thought that Minneapolis had more. I just wanted to give it a shot. ;-) Naji (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —John Neal

I agree with Paul. Send them to me....er..us;-) ;John (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Steve Bliss

(...) Yeah, right. LEGO which go to MSP never come out again. We've heard the stories. Steve (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —John Neal

Like light in a black hole;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us —Larry Pieniazek

I've received a number of offline notes about this, expressing various opinions and pledging various amounts. So depending on the dollar amount, it's doable, and at 5K I'd be in for less than half of the total (but not much less, so far). More (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us —John Neal

Larry Pieniazek wrote:... (...) They came at a very high price, IMO. So you *did* send them? (...) Do not divulge the secrets your eyes have beheld, lest you incur a "disaster beyond imagination" (like a chandelier falling on your head-- thank you, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us —Richard Dee

[This followup was posted to lugnet.general and a copy was sent to the cited author.] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 04:58:00 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Of course, air mail, sea mail, etc. would be prohibitively expensive (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Christian Holtje

(...) Or anything else? :) Follow-Ups to lugnet.lego.physics Ciao! (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Steve Bliss

(...) It's likely the parts are already (mostly) sorted, with each part having its own bin. Or case, depending on the quantity. Now, sorting out for shipping to different buyers would still be required. And would be a big pain, if people were (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Sanjay D'Souza

Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:37bc0c40.150569...net.com... (...) realistic - (...) This is how much of it is sorted although in much smaller quantities than many people imagine. Remember LEGO NZ is a much, much (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Spare Lego for us (Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)) —Jonathan Wilson

(...) there in all likelyhood could be some lego gold,though... -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Tom Stangl

What, every single one of my blue windows wasn't enough?!? ;-) Oh, I've managed to gather a few more 1x4x3 and 2x2 windows, but I think I'll just throw them in my next auction. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Tony Kilaras

(...) From what I understand by reading this thread, it looks like it's too late in NZ. I think we should try to find out if this is going to happen in *other* locales and try to prevent it there. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Mark Harrison

Hi Sanjay, As I've been away all last week, I missed this thread. I can't say I much like the sound of it. Sending Lego NZ's spare parts stock to the US isn't much better than dumping it. I thought you would be wanting to keep it in the southern (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Gary R. Istok

I can understand Marks perspective, and I can understand why he would like it all to go to Australia ..... (to replentish the old Lego supply that those not too smart LEGO Australia folks destroyed). But rather than leaving it sitting in storage for (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works) —Gary R. Istok

ARRRGHHHH!!!! This is the awful story that Mark told me many months ago. Think of all the Classic Windows that went into the shredder!!! Sigh........ Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)