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In lugnet.org.us, Eric Kingsley writes:
> I think that many of us in our discusions at one time or another would at
> least mention bulk ordering and sometimes it would end with that and other
> times we would get a response. I did not really press the issue as I did not
> want to burn to many bridges but I did mention it. I did learn a couple of
> things
> A. TLG knows there is an Adult Fan Base that wants bulk ordering.
> B. At least some reps are familiar with LUGNET and with at least occasionally
> read it.
> C. From what I was told, and I don't know much about where and how bricks are
> made, TLG does have the capability to do bulk orders but their biggest hurdle
> is to cut down shipping costs to make it worth while. It seemed to me that
> they were saying that the parts are all manufactured in Europe and the problem
> resides in filling bulk orders and keeping shipping costs down. Know I have
> no idea how much of this is true but this is what I understood from my
> conversations.
I'll pay shipping costs, no problem. I will also quite happily wait for
overseas shipping.
I think very few AFOLs will have any problem with a 'pay and wait' policy,
because we're generally quite used to that in the second hand market.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| This is a listing of a number of things that happened at Mindfest both related to the NELUG table and in general. 1. There were quite a few TLG reps on hand and many of us had a chance to chat with them. I will relate the few experiances I had and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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