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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 21:43:48 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@sbase1.com> wrote:
> I think that if we got enough want lists like this, we could put something
> together buying just current sets. With a cross reference of set parts
> lists, we could determine which sets would have the mix of parts most
> requested by fans, and then get a large quantity of those sets.
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> The Star Wars sets are a good source for Gray parts as well as various
> tiles. (I think that the Sith Infiltrator may secretly be a grap plate
> parts pack in disguise!)
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> Given enough requests, I am sure that we could find a combination of sets
> that would fill most of those requests rather efficiently.
Well, people already ARE doing things like this. I buy sets that
have some parts I want but also parts others want. But I'm getting
tired of it.
If you want to keep doing the buy/sort/auction/sell thing that's up
to you, but you'll never be able to fill the kind of orders some
people would like to place - only TLG can do that.
I'd like 500 pitchforks. Who will provide those for me? :(
--
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 | | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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| (...) Yes, I know. I'm one of them! :) (...) Yes, I know this too. My point was to use a large scale "bulk set" purchase as a means of getting enough parts to show as a proof-of-concept that something like this could work. The idea would be to then (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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| (...) I think that if we got enough want lists like this, we could put something together buying just current sets. With a cross reference of set parts lists, we could determine which sets would have the mix of parts most requested by fans, and then (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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