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Subject:	Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:33:46 GMT
Reply-To:	rsanders@!StopSpam!gate.net
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I agree. Anything that actually succeeds will have to be based on a sound business model. TLG needs to make money and see a positive creative outcome as a result. Perhaps we need a buying organization. A single point of contact with TLG, or a funnel (if you will) for all the bulk/non-standard orders. One other point that I don't believe anyone has mentioned: TLG *may* have a concern that selling bulk new bricks may open a competitive channel. That is, people could buy bulk bricks, train windows, etc. and assemble retail sets that would compete with TLG in the market place. I believe that preventing this type of usage needs to be a condition of any deal that can happen with TLG. Creating MOC etc. are fine, combining parts to sell new sets would not fly. One mans opinion. Ray Larry Pieniazek wrote: > > I LOVE the brick. So do some at TLG. But anything short of a business > case that demonstrates in MBA terms what we know to be true (1) will > fail. >

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		Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
(...) opinion. You may have hit on a good point here! I'm sure that this is a concern to Lego, especially if they have been reading the groups ehre and have sensed the general unhappiness with most of the current sets. This would be easy to fix with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

		Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
Ray Sanders wrote in message <3813510A.B54BDB9D@gate.net>... (...) But that concern can be addressed. I don't think anyone here would complain if the price per part for bulk orders was structured so that TLG had a higher profit to expense ratio (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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		Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
Just a couple of points. That 20K order we had assembled was for less than 20 different parts in total, although across several colors. I agree with most everything being said, but I feel that we need tu build bridges to those in TLG that have any (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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