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Re: From Mike Walsh
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Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:23:26 GMT
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as the Lego Direct agent said bulk packs are an extreamly new setup
they aer still working out how things will work.
they are not sure so they certanily won't tell us yet
the only reason yellow and blue showed up is cause they perceived a
defiancty in the blue tub count of those two colors so they did a rush job
"TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in
news:GGHx7v.K3v@lugnet.com:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Kevin Salm writes:
> > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > > > were answered as "we are aware of the irregularities in the line, we
> > > > are looking to expand it. There is an upper limit on the total number
> > > > of items we can offer at one time. We also are constrained by needing
> > > > to leverage what is in production already to get the parts that
> > > > comprise the pack"
> > >
> > > Uh oh. That sounds to me like, to get new stuff in they are going to
> > > have to drop some existing stuff out (once the limit is reached,
> > > whatever it is). IOW, buy what you need before it disappears, and if
> > > you don't realise you need it till it's gone, bad luck :-(
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > I have always envisioned that this is how the bulk offering would work.
> > Items would be made available for 12 months or so to be replaced with
> > new offerings. We cannot expect Lego to warehouse hundreds of bulk
> > products and continue to add more selections. Items will have to be
> > purged from the product roster in order to maintain profitability.
> > Similar to Lego retail products.
>
> Yes, this would be what we expect. A potential problem, however, is
> the current lack of information available from TLC[1]. It would be
> reasonable to assume that some bulk parts will be perennials[2], while
> others will have limited stock[3] or lifetimes. Right now, however, we
> can't tell into which category a given service pack might fall. I
> think that lack of information is potentially bad: when something
> disappears, people will be frustrated if they were counting on it to be
> there. If some seemingly random pack (say, brown slopes) *doesn't*
> disappear, people who spent money on it instead of something else
> thinking that it would disappear and they would need it "some day"
> would likewise be frustrated. Either way, the customers are unhappy
> and are probably spending less.
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> I think the solution is to print in the catalog roughly when LD expects
> a given service pack, or a class of service packs, to no longer be
> available.
>
> TWS Garrison
>
> [1] I'm not thinking of LUGNet posts, but information presented in the
> catalog.
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> [2] Say, gray bricks. . .after all, Grey Bricks was
> available for, what, 15 years?
>
> [3] I can imagine TLC "using up" an old mold on bulk paks that Billund
> would expect LD to flush out of the system, rather than adding that
> part to current sets and risking the need to make a new mold.
--
Daniel Staudt <dstaudt@hotmail.com>
Lugnet NUT #872
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| (...) Yes, this would be what we expect. A potential problem, however, is the current lack of information available from TLC[1]. It would be reasonable to assume that some bulk parts will be perennials[2], while others will have limited stock[3] or (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego.direct)
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