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(...) If it helps any, I spoke with customer service and the annoymous rep told me that the Castle System has been a top producer (and VERY popular) for them for some time, and that it is highly likely that the US/general market will see some nice (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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....Beautiful! Nice looking site. Cant wait to dive in deeper :-) (...) --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the wildlinks < INSERT HUMOROUS TAGLINE HERE > (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) To my mind, TLC should not be stressing the uniqueness of items at all -- but rather their modularity and ability to be used interchangably in an overall systematic scheme of a construction toy. My problem is that they claim to be doing one (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Marc, I'm getting bored now. On Mon, 7 May 2001, Marc Nelson Jr. (<GCyJ93.Cuy@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:51:03 (...) TLC doesn't have to tell you anything. Your question is like me asking you how you clean your teeth. It's just a thing you do. As a (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) So... Efficient: UK S@H pays someone to pull a bunch of service packs and box them up for shipment to the U.S. LEGO pays for these things to be shipped over to Connecticut. U.S. S@H pays someone to receive the shipment, enter it into the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I asked what that reason was (for not shipping outside territories) and got the answer at the top from Tomas Clark, basically, "that's not the way we do things", which is no answer at all as far as I'm concerned. I got a more detailed answer (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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WOW! This is Fantastic! It's exactly what I've wished the lego.com site would be! Excellent work! I love the interview with part designer; please continue this series, and try to go into more detail on why parts fit together in different ways and (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well said. I get grouchy too. I wonder how many people who wanted to pay shipping costs would be willing to pay the extra costs of the out of band processing too. Here's a slightly relevant factoid.. the average US company pays well north of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Simple answer: It breaks the process, and it's unnecessary duplication. (more complex) 99% of the time, S@H Europe is dealing with Europeans who want things delivered to Europe. Ditto the other distribution centers. Because they spend 99% of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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SNIP! You might as well through raw meat to dogs, it'd be (...) SNIP! I meant "throw". Really. Aaron (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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