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Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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lugnet.lego
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Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:00:06 GMT
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John Gerlach wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > #1) One feature I would like to see is allowing people to "sell" their
> > #works
> > through Lego Designer, for, say, 5% or 10% of the selling price.
> >
> > This would allow a community to quickly grow, and also allow Lego to use
> > and sell designs and make a profit, where otherwise they wouldn't have
> > designs people want. Lego can't fill niche areas, but individual builders
> > and designers can.
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> I'd just like to say this might be a major nightmare. I have painful
> visions of thousands of low-quality models that you'd have to page through
> to find the occasional gem.
Thats with anything, though.
> If you had a direct link that you could put on a website, that would be
> different. For example, I could see a train club having a particular
> model on
> their layout, with a link from their website to where people could buy it.
> If the model was good enough, it might be a good way for clubs to make
> some money to cover operating costs.
This was the method I actually had in mind. I'd be very nice to allow the
builders themselves to market the product instead of Lego needing to...
well, Lego wouldn't even have to care. They'd just have to ship the
product.
I, on the other hand, could make an entire "product line", fully marketed
from my website with, say, other third party products (such as posters and
tshirts from Cafepress or Zazzle).
>
> JohnG, GMLTC
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Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989
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| (...) You could just buy your own LEGO Factory designs, mark them up, and stick a Paypal button on your website. And S@H shipping is so fast, you could have "just-in-time" inventory. Admittedly the CafePress model is much nicer, but I don't see TLC (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) I'd just like to say this might be a major nightmare. I have painful visions of thousands of low-quality models that you'd have to page through to find the occasional gem. If you had a direct link that you could put on a website, that would be (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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