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Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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lugnet.lego
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Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:34:23 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Patrick McFarland wrote:
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John Gerlach wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Patrick McFarland wrote:
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#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.
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Thats with anything, though.
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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.
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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).
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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 doing it.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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| (...) Yeah, but then I have inventory lying around and other nastyness. Also, paypal is a very untrustworthy company, and it would be safer, for both me and my customers, for me to get a merchant account instead. (...) This is basically what I'm (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Thats with anything, though. (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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