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Re: Bulk Pricing (Interesting comparison?)
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:12:09 GMT
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A tangentially related question: What happens to the bricks rejected from the
system while changing the mold injectors from one color of plastic to another?
I already use discolored, heavily scratched or simply "wrong" color bricks as
filler in large structures and would happily add "bi-color" bricks to the mix
if they were available in mass quantities for a low price. Or do the Master
Builders already use them all for the same purpose?
Doug
In lugnet.lego.direct, Timothy D. Freshly writes:
> 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.
> Consequently, I would think that LEGO could cut costs in advertising,
> packaging, etc. by simply offering "true bulk" directly to AFOLs, maybe even
> through announcements on LUGNET or other similar online mediums.
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> For example, let's say an LD rep (like Jake for example) posts that bags of
> 1000 1xY and 2xY are available from LD for immediately shipment, product
> numbers xxxx, etc. No $ spent on advertising or fancy packaging. No space
> wasted in the S@H Catalog (which = no $ spent). No money spent on consumer
> research. Such savings could then be passed onto the consumer (us).
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| (...) AFAIK, they scrap those bricks. I know someone that has about 30 or so "mixed" bricks, and they look REALLY COOL (green/yellow, black/red, blue/pink). As far as we know, the only way he could have gotten them in that bulk lot is if someone AT (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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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. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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