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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 01:41:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Phillip Ogden writes:
> 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?
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 thousand dollars, which was scaled down considerably from my
original order. After being told that not even gray 1x4 bricks were not
available, I figured, what was the point? I buy the bulk tubs by the pallet
(i.e. 100 at a time) and have enough of every color and size in that tub.
Really, if people want parts that are obtainable (in decent quantities) in
sets, just part them out. When I was selling everything I had left over, some
people just wanted part x or y. I told them to buy all of it, keep what they
want and sell off the rest. You would be amazed at how many people don't want
to do that. I will go through the hassle for myself, but not for somebody
else. I want to spend my Lego time building, not sorting.
By the way, one full pallet is 50 cases with 2 tubs. A full truck holds 24
pallets, so a truckload of bricks is 2.88 million bricks. Sure, they store a
lot smaller than that once they are sorted, but that is a huge amount of boxes
to store. I mention this because that is how many tubs I would have to buy to
get 38,400 2x6 bricks. I had originally ordered 36,000 2x8 bricks in gray.
Parting out sets could take a truckload of bricks just to get the quantities I
or several other people want. Who really wants to volunteer to sort that?[1]
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> 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.
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> I could go for 1000 black 2x4's at that price, and probably some 2x6's too.
Will you give me 6 cents a piece for my 2x6 bricks? I might take you up on
that. I think I have a couple of thousand right now. (I am saving them just
in case I need them in the future and don't want to part out more tubs, but I
may change my mind)
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> Wouldn't we get TLG's attention better by collecting the biggest order we
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> muster at the terms they specified and putting our money where our mouth is?
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> 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).
I was actually annoyed when a guy came in today and paid $1,000 cash for a
bunch of nuts. I didn't have time to be bothered with such a small order.
And my company is nowhere near as big as TLG.
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> Am I alone? Anyone else ready to pay 6 cents? (Was there a minimum order
> size defined?)
Apparently, there was no minimum order, but there was a maximum. Zero.
Exceed that number and they are no longer available.
I will try now and get a discount instituted for large S@H orders. That might
actually happen.
Mike
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| (...) Logic alone would seem to dictate that it should happen, if for no other reason than you ought to be able to convince some S@H manager that you're saving them a good bit on shipping by ordering a lot of items at once. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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| Mike Poindexter wrote in message ... (...) too. (...) just (...) I (...) I would go for a 1000 2x6's at $0.06 @ piece ($60) if they were all black. :?) Ok, seriously, if they were a mix of black, blue, and yellow. I don't need red and white at the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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