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Re: The shortsighted stupid wastefulness of TLG (was Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:36:28 GMT
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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 fences and trees for
6 guilders in Amsterdam and a few little Insectoid sets for 2
guilders apiece (about $1). London is, however, far to
expensive for Lego buying, although I did buy two of the
little hang-gliders because they were under a pound fifty.
Enough about that! Now Larry P. (is there another?) wrote:
> 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 some non sympathetic firm to drag it
> out of the store room, dump it in dumpsters, fiercely guard the
> dumpsters to prevent rummaging, and haul it all away without making any
> provision for the staff, interested fans, or charities to get access to
> all those only slightly damaged sets. ...
Yeah, it makes me cringe, but there *is* actual logic behind actions
like that.
If you give it away, you saturate the market. When
you're restocked, in theory you'll sell *much* less
merchandise to those local groups you mentioned
above. It's rather heartless, but they're thinking of
the bottom line--disposal costs are covered by the
insurance company. In addition, the insurance co.
may not pay unless something is a 'total loss,'
meaning that further use is impossible. If TLG
sold or donated the sets, that would no longer be
true--unsaleable for retail does not equal useless.
I think the real reasoning behind that scenario
would be heartless insurance companies more
than heartless TLG execs.
And before you say 'you can never have too many
bricks!' (a sentiment with which I wholeheartedly
an unashamedly agree), remember that not every-
one thinks that way, especially when they're not
buying for themselves.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, if
something like that happens they should just
sell the sets off at pennies on the dollar to Lugnet
subscribers, since we'll buy more no matter what. :)
LFB
---
Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr)
Department of History
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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