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Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:08:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jodi Neal writes:
> Larry, what is VC????
Venture capital.
Just so you know, a group of us put together a consortium with 20,000 USD lined
up and ready to go, on the faint hope that we would be able to order a one time
only glob of bulk parts from the train windows area... that's right, 20K just
on train windows and doors...
So the market is there.
Your idea, which has lots of merit, is not the same thing. Parting out sets and
buckets has been done. It's a worthwhile idea but does not go far enough. What
bucket am I going to part out to get green train windows (wide or narrow)?
I think a more powerful idea is to put together a business case. That business
case should show how a professional organization could buy parts in VERY large
quantities, with as much as a 6 month lead time to allow for scheduling at TLG
convenience, and at margins TLG would find attractive.
That organization would then resell the parts, doing it more efficiently than
TLG themselves can, but doing it in a way to protect the brand.
ANY mechanism in which we part out sets, even custom made just for us with
the parts we want sets, is not as desirable (from an entropy perspective) as
just getting cases of the same part, as there is effort expended in creating
the sets and effort expended in returning the sets to their constituent
components. That effort adds no value, ultimately, and therefore is a thrifting
opportunity (using finance parlance).
To construct such a business case we need to enumerate in a reasoned way what
the challenges TLG has with current process and current mechanisms for selling.
We also need to enumerate what TLG core values are around the brand and other
areas so that the proposed plan honors all of those.
++Lar
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| Correct me if I am wrong, but don't we already have a foot in the door? Didn't someone (Mike Poindexter?) post that we could get a bulk order accepted for $.06 per piece for the bricks available in the standard tub? It seems to me that that is an (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Larry, what is VC???? (...) and the sales base that we have in our local stores. Just like Todd and Suzanne do in buying 10 sets and auctioning them off, we will be running a large base for bulk buying from the LUGNET community. If we find (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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