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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G8nLoJ.5Iw@lugnet.com... (...) First off, good thoughts Larry, and good question, Eric. I'll attempt to add to the comments as they apply to the CAD summit. (...) I don't think anyone (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) A gift? Please. LEGO got just as much, if not more, out of having you lot up there. Otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered. I haven't been nosey enough to ask about travel and boarding expenses. It would be a bit shocking to me to find out (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) No really. We all considered it a privilege to be invited. (...) Sure, LD has something to gain-- otherwise, as you say, they wouldn't have invited us. But a lot of the conversation was about how TLC can help out LTCs and what they are doing. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) A priviledge, yes. A gift? No. LEGO got just as much, if not more, out of the meeting than you did. It's important to remember that LEGO is a company. LEGO is not your friend, it's not your enemy, it's not Santa's workshop. They don't do (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:G8nxyB.FC4@lugnet.com... (...) And that's OK. (...) True for the company - but my experience with the individuals in the company is that they are good people and they do do things out of the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Mostly agree, so mostly snipped. (...) Can you elaborate on this? I agree that knowing that LEGO is a company and does things for company-ish reasons is important... I mean, I've been saying since *forever* that LEGO is a company and that things (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I didn't say it wasn't. (...) I didn't say anything about the individuals in question. I have no opinion of any of the individuals in question, never having met any of them. Even if I were to meet them, though, it would be important to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Sure. Lately people have become infected with the idea that LEGO Direct will or won't like us based on posts in lugnet.lego.direct. They've somehow gotten the idea that LEGO Direct, as a part of The LEGO Company, will or won't form an (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) But the meetings were just the beginning. They are history. The dialog continues here with all AFOLs. We should all continue to provide input to help make TLC a better company. (...) Okay, your point is well taken. The term "gift" probably (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Thanks. (...) Indeed. OK, thanks for the clarification. I agree, mostly (of course). But, and this may be straining at gnats and swallowing camels, and it may well be second order effects rather than direct, while LEGO Direct, not being a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Snipped for comedic effect. This is the last post, I gotta get back to work. (...) (1) (...) Except they get to build with their bricks at work without having to explain. 1 - Surely J2 meant "as JUST a company" as I never really thought of TLC as (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) lol thanks for the correction, although I did feel unjustly treated by TLC as an AFOL when I saw Miniland for the first time. All I could do was look at the marvelous buildings and say, "you can't get that element in *that* color, you can't (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) be (...) it's (...) I agree. But for a while the only posts they responded to were rather rudely phrased. The posts that politely asked a question were ignored. LD needs to demonstrate that they will (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That is the biggest piece of hogwash I have seen come from you yet. I don't believe there has really ever been a "we want it because we want it" crowd -- that's just a straw man of your own creation so that you can make yourself seem important (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well put. (...) Yes to both. That last point is critical. We need crispness. The increased response is great but is it temporary? Setting some clear expectations, and maybe further sorting stuff into different channels by what it is (a bug (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Clearly if you're going to carry on a business relationship with someone, there is a correct and an incorrect way to behave. That does include finding the right tone to use to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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