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Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:41:21 GMT
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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 attractive price for some of those parts...
black 2x4's go for more than that, most 2x6's and 1x8's too.
I could go for 1000 black 2x4's at that price, and probably some 2x6's too.
Wouldn't we get TLG's attention better by collecting the biggest order we
can
muster at the terms they specified and putting our money where our mouth is?
When we have made a 20K purchase, then someone might take us seriously. And
it
seems to me that we could pull that off fairly easily. Of course I could be
wrong.
I think that we are far too easily impressed with the numbers involved.
We are like a mouse trying to roar. To us a $20k order (or even a $100k
order)
seems impressive. To a mfg. the size of TLG, that is nothing. I would be
willing
to bet that they scrap $20k worth of parts a day (for various reasons).
Am I alone? Anyone else ready to pay 6 cents? (Was there a minimum order
size defined?)
thoughts?
:?) bishop
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.general, Jodi Neal writes:
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> > Larry, what is VC????
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> Venture capital.
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> 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...
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> So the market is there.
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> 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)?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> ++Lar
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| (...) Well, wrong and not wrong. Bulk order accepted at 6 cents, yes. You, no. They allowed me to make such an order, but then I was told that none of the items were available. My order was for almost 150,000 elements for a total of just under nine (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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