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Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos
Date: 
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:10:55 GMT
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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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  More Mindfest Tidbits
 
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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