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Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)
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Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:18:23 GMT
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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 management would be keen on doing a
private sale but I'll see what I can do.  I've been able to sight a lot of
good pieces and much of what's there has been sorted.

Sanjay

Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
news:37BB5BF0.A8E78999@voyager.net...
Sanjay D'Souza wrote:

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 know.

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...

If (and that's a very big if) I were able to swing a good deal and have • the
financial backing of the Bank of Pieniazek and others (1) where in the • world
would I put the stuff?

I'm happy to do the dealing (the free lunch I'm offering the spm and his
wife this weekend should be a good bargining tool (2) ) but I'm not • prepared
to store the stuff once it's paid for and being sorted.  Any ideas?

Yes, let's talk offline, I followed up via email and blind copied some
folks I have in mind. One thing to think of that it may make sense to
ship the whole lot ONCE to a country with low shipping costs and do the
sorting/selling/reshipping thing from there.

(1) In good humour of course

No, a consortium would be welcome, I certainly don't want to shut anyone
else out! The more backers the better, within reason.

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(...) 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)

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