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Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:41:26 GMT
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Maybe we could look at it as proof that people want to pay less overhead on
larger quantities of bricks, or in other words -- they are willing to pay
closer to a wholesale price on multiples of the same sets. If AFOL were to
be stuck paying full retail, it just wouldn't happen I suspect. And I don't
see how this hurts the larger Lego retail market anyway. People focused on
finding these bargains are not the same persons making a last minute impulse
purchase for a birthday gift, etc.
I don't see this as bad news for TLC, just an opportunity for them to learn
the realities of the market they are in at the present time. Is it the case
that children were buying these sets for the most part? From an online
service requiring a credit card? Somehow I doubt it...
Which leads me to a general comment on Lego Direct bulk items -- if we are
buying directly from TLC why should we be paying more, rather than less,
than retail per brick? I sure don't want to be charged the overhead for
their silly and WAY overblown website. Just sell me bulk and cheaply too...
And the eToys model suggests to me that we don't have to pay more, that
there is a way to get you, TLC, to sell this stuff to us AFOL at a smaller
cost...
The closer we get to $0.25 a brick, the more likely I am to just spend most
of my money on eBay where paying a premium for older and better sets makes
more sense than paying the same for new and less well designed sets. And if
bulk nears this price, well -- then I just don't see the point of it.
See TLC? You created a monster by simply being a better toy manufacturer in
the past than you are presently. A high level of expectation has already
been established. Some of the junk you are trying to sell this year just
"ain't gonna cut it." And even if we *are* willing to buy, it may have to
be at deep discount. And "bulk" should always have meant a deep discount.
-- Richard (just call me Mr. Sunshine...)
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