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Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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lugnet.lego
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:26:35 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Ken Nagel wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, David Eaton wrote:
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People keep referring to this as a promise-- I just don’t get it. We were
told the details of the run they were doing, and told that there weren’t
plans to do another one. They didn’t PROMISE by any stretch of the
imagination that none would ever exist. Other than Jan’s one statement, can
you find the exact instance where they “promised” not to make another Maersk
blue set?
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QUOTH JAKE MCKEE: “Then it’s time for another new adventure! It measures 69cm
long and is your last chance to buy Maersk bricks!
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I stand corrected! I skimmed right over that bit in Jake’s post
(http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=1801) repeatedly because I figured it was the
S@H description.
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AND:This is a small run too – only 14,000 total, with 10,000 coming to Shop
At Home.
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The first quote I’ll give you. That one by no means. It was true, still is true.
No promises on possible future runs from that statement. The run they did was
14,000. Nothing even remotely implied about future runs, apart from the “last
chance to buy Maersk bricks” bit.
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At what point would you call it “breaking a promise” versus “acceptible
breaking of a promise”? (I assume if, say, you promised your friend that he
could stay at your house, and your house burned down, preventing you from
being able to let him stay there, that you wouldn’t call that a “broken
promise”, but hey, maybe you would, I dunno)
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And if the queen had B---s then she’d be king. There was no asteroid, no Mega
Block deal, and no fire.
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Well... yeah. That was the point. Would you hold it against Lego if there was?
Should I just assume your answer is “no”? Should I make up some more scenarios
to find that borderline point between when you think it was ok vs. not ok?
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Pretty much no excuse for going back on a promiss.
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I still think it’s a pretty miniscule excuse of a promise. I mean, yes, I agree
that they should have phrased it as “It may be your last chance” instead of “It
... IS your last chance, but would that little 1-word insertion really have
satisfied you? My guess is no.
To be honest, I think it was very good of them to point out that it might have
been the last chance for Maersk blue, even if they didn’t get the phrasing
right. They were trying (I think) to make sure people knew ahead of time so
nobody got left behind in the dust, still wanting to buy a copy. I don’t think
they were trying to increase the chances of it selling out. With a set like that
in such a limited run, they probably knew it would sell out pretty well.
But to be even more honest, I think the Lego nay-sayers are mostly just itching
for an excuse to vent at the company. If they hadn’t done the color change, were
still producing classic space sets, weren’t as juniorized, had a mix of studded
and studless beamed technic sets, I seriously doubt they’d be getting this kind
of ridiculous flak over such a pathetic thing that probably could’ve been fixed
by inserting a single trivial word into their set description.
DaveE
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) And on the other side of the coin many want to defend the company no matter what they do. This is not bley or click hinges. This is basic morality.I'm with the "nay-sayers" because the company is on a destructive path and if they go down so (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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| In lugnet.lego, David Eaton wrote: SNIP (...) QUOTH JAKE MCKEE: "Then it’s time for another new adventure! It measures 69cm long and is your last chance to buy Maersk bricks! AND:This is a small run too – only 14,000 total, with 10,000 coming to (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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