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Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:51:20 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <DNBNPRIME@HOTMAIL.nospamCOM>
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> I'd -love- to see TLG do something like this. However, we seem to have • been
> turned down at every step. Why? Is our money not good enough? are our
> motives not pure enough? Is the order not big enough?
I think that the problem may be (IMHO) that all the attempts so far that
i've seen have been made by "end users" or customers. Perhaps it takes a
request from an actual retailer for something like bulk order to get through
to the people at Lego. (Probably a LARGE retailer!)
I'm sure that if someone like TRU or KB requested to be able to sell bulk
bricks that Lego would work something out to accommodate them.
Troy
PS: I'm doing quite well on my current bulk brick auction, and these are
from blue tubs purchases at retail! Surely Lego could make a profit with
it!
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| (...) My take on retailers.... #1 & 2 are probably WalMart and K-Mart (tied). K-Mart had some management problems a few years back, but they are cleaning up their act fast. In Florida, I believe the numbers are ~170 K-Mart stores and ~150 WalMart (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Just some general comments: I. I know Larry P had something upwards of $10,000 -promised- payment for the bricks that (might have been/should have been...) ordered. If I was a company, and someone said, I have $10,000 worth of orders, IN MY HAND for (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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