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Re: A rant on many poor business practices leading to unemployment
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Date: 
Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:30:07 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Allan Bedford wrote:
In lugnet.lego, Andrew Kochan wrote:
That way they can make
like 1000 or less units of said sets a year and only pound off runs of 100 when
it runs out or tell everyone to wait 1 year,

Probably harder to do than running 10,000 copies.  I would think gearing up for
just a 1000 copies would be very expensive.

My guess would be that a minimum run would need to be upwards of 100k units. I
seem to recall someone saying that the ISD had an initial run of 10k units, but
I think that TLC was being very cautious due to the uncertainty of the high
offering price. A more typically priced set would need a larger base run to
cover all the overhead involved in getting it out the door.

Ray



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  Re: A rant on many poor business practices leading to unemployment
 
(...) This is one of my favorite topics, and since I'm also an idealist I figured perhaps I would chime in. :) (...) Probably true. Although I don't think they weren't thinking, I just think they weren't thinking ahead far enough. Follow me? :) (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego)

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