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> 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.
Perhaps we are approaching the problem wrong when we try to to get them to
notice us by using a dollar ammount or a piece count as an attractive
minimum order (as has been discussed elsewhere).
Perhaps they are just waiting for us to order enough parts to fill up one of
those nifty shipping containers (the kind that can go from the boat to a
train to a truck and are commonly used for overseas shipping)
I've got enough room in my driveway for one of those! <grin>
Troy
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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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