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Re: Top secret project - we need your help
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.color
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Tue, 11 May 2004 20:33:33 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Ted Michon wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
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we would like to have your feedback on what parts you would
most like to see in bulk form.
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Sounds simple enough, but I need a context to answer the question in. Am I to
reply with my most important 20 bricks by my typical volume? Or with the 20
bricks on my “most wanted” list that changes from week to week (i.e., bricks
I really need, but not necessarily a lot of)?
Put another way, I would put 100 1x8 chrome tiles ahead of 5000 2x4 white
bricks, but long term I would NEED the white bricks a lot more. The problem
is that demand is fueled by scarcity as much as by consumption.
And given that 2x4 white bricks by the 1000s are more important to me, volume
wise, than 1x8 chrome tiles, I would buy the tiles at lego.com prices but not
the bricks because the tiles would have no other source and, even if they
did, thet would be more expensive elsewhere because of scarcity, whereas the
2x4s at $0.14 (current price in bags of 25) are cheaper via other venues
(principally BrickLink).
Or is the operative word in your question “bulk”, meaning more than just 25
or 100 at a time? If you are asking what I would like to be able to buy by
the 1000s at BrickLink competitive prices that would be readily available for
years to come, that would steer me in a direction different from my top 20
needs because-I-can’t-get-them.
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Very good questions... and none of them are questions I can answer. :)
Basically, you’ll have to choose your top 20 based one whatever internal
criteria you choose. You’re trying to answer the question “What do I want to
have access to in quantity”.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Development
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Jake- OK, although you can't answer your final restatement of the question does clarify things a little. I'll take the survey to mean "What are the parts I most would like to buy in volume, independent of whether I already have a good supply (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, FTX)
| | | Re: Top secret project - we need your help
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| (...) This is one of your biggest communication handicaps, Jake. You always promise Wow! Great! New! Things! We! All! Will! Like! and then you either stop a few inches short, or things start to go *really* bad (remember the "Absolutely Great New (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Top secret project - we need your help
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| (...) Sounds simple enough, but I need a context to answer the question in. Am I to reply with my most important 20 bricks by my typical volume? Or with the 20 bricks on my "most wanted" list that changes from week to week (i.e., bricks I really (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, FTX)
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