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(...) I'm not sure if I have enough grey matter - but I do agree. (...) Yep, it would be better if cutting out the middle man meant low prices - but it does not. Further to that, at times I find the service here (UK/Europe) pretty poor. (...) Ditto (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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If I missed an announcement earlier, sorry. Just went to Lego.com and noticed the shop link. After going there noticed Orange Bulk Brick message, which is actually a pumpkin you can make. 87 bricks for $9.99 Haven't checked it all out yet or ordered (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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(...) The price is a little steep, but it's still a pretty cool set. Sadly, I think TLC is getting the wrong idea about pricing -- I guess there is little hope in getting them to drop prices any time soon. The pumpkin itself is very similar to what (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It is not too clear, but I think they are just 2*1 black bricks? Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Have you seen this?: (URL) that is cool! (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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S@H seems amazingly slow in between pages... and I'm on a T1 Why does it need to reload the applet and all the menus every time I click a new page? Anyway, I got me two o' them Jack o' Lanterns. Woo! ~Mark (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think they started using a different first letter for web order confirmations (long timers and heavy users know that orders that start with P were taken by real S@H people and orders that start with T were taken by overflow), because my (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Looks like they are offering a new bulk assortment as well, 1x8 bricks & 2x8 plates.I guess the Orange Pumpkin is the "new & rare colors" they promised us in October. If these are the only 'new' bulk packs this season, I will be very (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I already ordered my Pumpkin #3731 a few hours ago and recieved a different (even lower) confirmation code: X00000xx The TWO small x are actually numbers which I will not reveal either, but the first letter has been an X (though a large (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Anyone else getting a 'must be able to accept cookie' error accessing shop.lego.com? I have IE 5 on Win98, default security settings, and I get plenty of cookies. I'm looking at a current Lego.com cookie in fact. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I almost took the bait here, but I know better...... so I'll say this only once..... RICHARD LIGHTEN UP!!!...!!! You take life too seriously! Gary Istok (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I got the cookie error also, but only when trying to access directly to a referenced page from one of the previous posts. When I go in through the front door, (shop.lego.com) everything seems fine. Jeff Jeffrey Hazen North Mill Technology (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) My thinking exactly. While i happen to be in the UK at the mo, the order is to my home address in the US. U for US, X for everywhere else? More data needed. ++Lar (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think these were available before... 2x4 and 2x8 plates were, anyway, along with 1x6 plates. The bulk pages seem to be a rearrangement (in a non logical order) of what was there before except for the pumpkin. FUT market.shopping. ++Lar (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes and no. This pumpkin is built entirely from 2x orange bricks; the Halloween bucket gave us 1x orange bricks. It contains seven 2x2 (brand new), sixteen 2x3s (brand new), and eleven 2x4s (brand new), along with nine 2x8s (available in only (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I am seeing the same problem on one of the machines in my office, running Win2000 using IE5. The site works fine on my NT4 machine running IE5. But the site is basically unuseable anyway, as it is ridiculously slow. Not that this is a big (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) O, me too. I guess I didn't look at this thing very long, blurry as it was. 1 x Y is way better than 2 x Y as far as I am concerned. -- Richard (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes it is horrible. Never seen a page that would hit 100% CPU when everything is drawn and there is no animation. May be it is on purpose to match the "horror" theme of holloween? <sign> And where is the "next page" button when it list the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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A few new snippets of information that I got because there was a small problem with my CC (not all the digits took, a problem ticket is open on that) and I got called (in the UK on my mobile, as it turned out). U is indeed a new order confirmation (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I read this as: Some marketing guy browses ths list once a week/month. Every now and then he'll write a post/advert and stick BJ's name on end. Scott A BTW Are you saying it is OK to be "rude" in other groups? (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Really? I read it as "some S@H staff know about Lugnet and read it on their own time; like other human beings, they like getting feedback, but don't appreciate rudeness" Out of curiosity, how do you infer from the above that S@H personnel are (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) You go right ahead and read it that way if you like, but it's not what I said, and it's not what I meant. I mean, I just said in the very post you referenced that I was referring to that a rep called me and in the course of fixing up a problem (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.general, Brad Justus writes: Great news... Will LS@H pick up the Kabaya promotional sets. very respectfully, don (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I bet they love LEGO too, and spend all their spare time playing with the stuff. Perhaps there homes are made of LEGO too - they must get tonnes of it on discount. Or maybe they are just moms & students hoping to help pay the bills - and would (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I did not say you said that? (...) I have never heard of here? Should I have? (...) He may well. (...) How do you know this? Ask any PA how many letters / mails here boss writes. (...) So LEGO only read this group as rule? Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Since when is 7101 Lightsaber Duel a "Classic" SW set? If LEGO is interested I am willing to be payed lots of LEGO to help proofread the site. <grin> Why does the same menu have to relaod every page!?! This portion of the site is too slow on (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hopefully it's just because we're all hitting the pages at once. :) It *is* slow; doing a text-only dump of the top-level page from a system on 100MB ethernet connected to the Internet via an OC-12 takes 12.38 seconds (ah, but an OC-12 to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Let me add to this that not two hours after my post about the cookie error on the shop site I had an email from LEGO (tech. supp. I guess) acknowledging the problem and giving me a solution. Apparently the problem occurs if you have cookies (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Uh...have you seen the Statue of Liberty??? It has an all new dusty green!!!!! It is a cool model too! (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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If you look at the description of the set at (URL) , there is a link to the directions - (URL) that it uses 2x2/3/4/8 bricks. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) interested I (...) That's not the only wrong placed set: - You will find the set #7184 MTT in the LEGO > Technic > Star Wars section although it is an LEGO > Themes > Star Wars > Episode I set. - You will find the set #3439 Spy Runner in the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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[.general snipped, in deference to recently-expressed opinions about its over-use] (...) I'm sure they don't. Especially those "regular moms", who seem to be doing as superb a job for their other phone customers as they have for me, and who are (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, I don't know about homes made of LEGO, the actual discount limits per year are not that generous (I know the numbers but won't be specific). But I know several S@H employees by name (I do talk to them a lot) and more of *them* know who (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes. "She" signed all LEGO communications (letters in response to consumer letters, little blurbs in catalogs, etc.) both here and in the UK for many years. (...) Todd told me that Brad told him. So either Todd was fooled, Todd is a liar, I'm (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Larry, I could recount countless “conversations” with telesales people. They all tell me _their_ product is great, they use it, there mother uses etc etc. They always sound happy as they work for great companies... and they always appear to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think either Larry needs a beer, or Scott need a beer, or I'm lying to you, or you're both wrong, or you're both secret agents of TLC. I know which way I'm betting. :-) /Eric McC/ (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) When I was a kid, I wrote a letter to Dennis the Menace. He wrote back after a month or so with a bland letter which was both signed by him and his dog (Gnasher). My father confirmed to me that this was the real McCoy. So either I was fooled (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, and even so your nice Mr Bush looks like he is going to win. Scott A (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yup. You, as a child, were fooled, and Brad, who has talked to Todd on the phone, posts his own stuff. To paraphrase (and let me apologise in advance if you don't get this joke) "Todd said it, I believe it, and that settles it!" I tried (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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