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Someone just wrote me an email, containing the following and other statements, my reply follows that writer's statement: ~~~...~~~ <<but you tend to come across as very upset and incoherent much of the time. >> I enjoy writing in a rhetorical style (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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(...) doing for me instead? (...) I am wondering where this sense of entitlement comes from? -Chuck (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Larry, Larry, Larry... I merely want information about sets currently available elsewhere in the world --how big a breach of proprietary information is this supposed to be? Aren't you wildly overstating your case? (...) I think that I am not (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: bulk should mean more than 10
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(...) Yes, but overhead is just the problem. Since few people need 50 windows, they wouldn't sell many sets, and the overhead of creating and advertising the package would be divided among fewer sets. There are definite diminishing returns, here. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Damn right. Besides, what would native americans want with chrome armor for minifing anyway? LEGO logic ;) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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Larry, Richard, (...) of (...) Europe. (...) the (...) about (...) Indeed. I think we would all like access to the different sets, I would be willing to pay more for them. I was hoping that a new online / international LEGO Direct might be able to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think you might catch a few more flies with honey than with vinegar or vitriol. What exactly is your right to this information? I didn't see an insert in the last set I bought promising that I was going to find out about everything (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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(...) The world is full of products that are limited by geographic availability Why should Lego be any different? regards lawrence (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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Dear Brad: Once again some of us in the AFOL community are up in arms about a series of releases that appear to be geographically specific to Germany, or to Europe. I am repeatedly outraged that we AFOL are not promoted to or kept within the loop of (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: bulk should mean more than 10
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(...) I meant of the $8.99 that 10 1x4x5 windows cost. /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) The problem is that there is an overhead cost that is probably very close to the same whether the pack has 10 or 100 windows. I'm guessing that this overhead cost is a large proportion of the $4.99 that 10 windows cost, and that TLC could sell (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Bulk means different things to different people. Unless one is embarking on an ambitious project involving hundreds of windows, 10, or a multiple thereof, would sufficient for most of us I would think!! Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Eric McCarthy (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Dear Lego Direct, Please increase the quantities and decrease the prices on some of your bulk items. For example: item 3448 - 10 windows - $8.99 item 3449 - 5 doors - $9.99 This isn't really bulk. And it is expensive. Better would be: item 3448b - (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Specials at The Store 30 August
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(...) Those are available in a couple of the current sets: 5805, 5807. I would love to see the 2x2x11 columns in bulk, in all the colors that they have been produced in, especially white and brown. The colors of columns that have appeared in sets (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I notice that a lot of the older lego I have seen lately is insectoids, that seems to be making a comeback, probobly LA is clearing excess inventory and drawing names out of a hat for stores that are to get the stock. The problem with lego (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) While I agree totally with your general comments about TLG & LA, I must point out that, having been involved in launching an international e-commerce site, this is probably not achievable. The logistics in delivering products to many different (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| | RE: LEGO.new is coming [but not to Australia :( ]
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<Appologies for not threading...> (...) So I'd heard. It doesn't mean I have to like it...or believe it :) (...) I know this, it's just that I'm getting sick and tired of TLG's treatment of Australia.[and not neccesarily all of this should go to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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Um..... Ben, yes the USA is the center of the known Universe. :-) If you want any bulk orders before it is available in Australia, I am sure that there are many AFOLs in North American and (Germanic) Europe that would be happy to order for you until (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) hope!) (...) Turkey? Does yours plans include Brazil? (...) Me too. (...) Thanks also, Paulo (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.br)
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(...) Hooray. Good news from LD. (...) Sounds good...Don't like the 'limiting the assortment' bit, but getting anything done by TLG for us Aussies is a big effort. Anything would be better than what we've got. (...) Australia ??? (...) So this is (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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