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(...) I think this is a good idea for them to put up listing of parts without pricing for a short time while they finish keying up the data, maybe even establishing pricing. Especially for new items we have never seen before in bulk packs. It get us (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I agree with Eric 100%. This earlier iteration of the bulk site is much beter. The column on the left and each size piece only pictured once with color options below it make finding the piece you need much easier. The problem is that this site (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bulk Pricing (Interesting comparison?)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A8AD96B.7A79@m...ing.com... [snip] (...) I would guess that outside of the AFOL market (individually and through LUGs and LTCs), there is likely little demand for bricks by the 1000s. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Mike Timm writes: <snip> (...) Oh please don't remove the second link. It is so much better organized than the shop.lego.com pages that I would much prefer to shop this way. I just wish you could add to your shopping cart from (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well I found that there appear to be TWO different versions of the bulk list depending upon how you attempt to get there. Perhaps they are/were in the process of doing/activating the changes for the US S@H website, I cannot tell, but the bulk (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well as far as the overhead I think the two might be closer than you think. There is a lot of air in the Tubs so the tubs take up more space/part plus the lack of packaging on the bulk packs lower their overhead right away. My guess is that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A8ADA23.398@mi...ing.com... (...) Wonderful idea, Frank! This would be really cool....LEGO? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I'm curious as to how the promotional sets work. Is it at all possible that Lugnet could work with TLC to make promotional sets available? I'd love to see an assortment like the Shell sets (and I'm sure Lugnet would be happy for TLC to sell them (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't think it's "obvious" they can do better. I think the buckets and tubs (pretty much only available in the US and Canada I think) are almost a loss leader. I don't think they actually are a loss leader, but I strongly suspect they are (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Time for me to hop on the soapbox too. :) When I first heard they were going to make "bulk" packs available, my hope was that they'd do something like "1000 assorted white" for $30, and so on. The term "bulk" usually implies "large quantities (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Misspelling on bulk pages
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(...) lol, add "boogie" plates -John (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Just a quick note: On page 5 of the US Bulk element offering, item #5226 Cross Axles is misspelled as "Cross Axels". --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The effects of Bulk Sales are evident....
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(...) If those parts became available, I'd have to start riding my son's bike.....[1] -John [1] having sold off the car for $$$ for parts;-) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
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(...) When you say "old Lego," roughly what year or year range are you referring to? I haven't really noticed any quality differences recently, but huge quality differences since the 70's (better since then). Is the quality lesser now than, say, 5 (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(URL) it bookmarked ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Search for Jason Catena, he did a very sweet summation. It hasn't been as active lately, I think people stopped sending in their suggestions. ++Lar (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Since i came out of my dark ages almost 2 years ago, I haven't paid MSRP for any non-SW set. As you said, the value for the dollar just isn't there. I echo the sentiment that I'd rather spend on the secondary market than pay full price for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: LEGO.com website errors
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I was finally able to get into the bulk pages! it's been very hard to get to the Lego site lately, I know you are working on it though! One thing I noticed, all the new items don't show a price? is this an error? or just that we all got excited, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Here is another useful URL, for the MRJ plugin: (URL) it's included in the current 4.76 distribution too. So, I have tried to run the Brickolizer under the Netscape MRJ plugin with no success. (It is also necessary to spoof the UserAgent string to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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