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Re: LD's Auctions (Re: Going once, going twice, sold!)
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Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:03:06 GMT
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:
> > All,
> > It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I announce the new LEGO
> > Auctions! Check out the new area of the online LEGO Shop at
> > http://shop.LEGO.com/eBay.
> > [snip]
> > - We will be auctioning Santa Fe Super Chief locomotive sets #0001-
> > 0010 over the next few weeks, starting with #0001.[snip]
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> (!!!) whoah. This strikes me icky.
> Didn't the top response to polling on this at lego.com suggest the same?
Icky that a company would auction their own products? How so?
> Who will receive the money generated? LD?
Why wouldn't they?
> (LD will certainly benefit in plenty of other ways...)
Is that a bad thing?
> I don't know much about limited editions, but, it seems kinda broken to
> have held those sets back from real customers when they were advertised
> as 10,000 available.
My catalogs don't seem to mention anything about how many were produced,
nor how many will be available.
> Sorry, but, I've just never seen this kinda thing..
You've never seen a company auction off a one-of-a-kind product? Or
never seen LEGO do it? As noted earlier today, LD has held nine other
similar auctions already.
> I've probably just
> been in the dark - I'm not a collector - but it disturbs me to see LD
> generating their own collecting interest.
Not sure I see what you find disturbing. My take on it is that it's a
more fair way to distribute a one-of-a-kind, collectible model. The
alternative is that some Joe Schmo randomly receives number 0001. He
either gives it to his 7 year old, who promptly loses the numbered tile;
or he never opens the box, and we never find out who has #0001; or he
opens it, destroying the collectible value of it. I don't really like
any of those options.
The auction method gives everyone a fair market chance to purchase what
many feel is a highly desirable set. Additionally, it gives LEGO Direct
some additional hard data that it can show to LEGO Corporate, showing
that they are doing things right (the fact that in the first twelve
hours of a ten day auction, the set has been bid to nine times its
original value, should prove to be quite interesting to the suits at the
home office).
So did I totally miss your point, or do we just see things differently?
Rick C.
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| (...) No, icky that: (...) I can imagine many potential reasons why LD wouldn't rcv the profits, but my question was meant literally. (...) No. Well, I think that's up to subjective judgement. But, assuming your question was aimed, at least in part, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes: >All, > >It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I announce the new LEGO >Auctions! Check out the new area of the online LEGO Shop at >(URL) >[snip] >- We will be auctioning Santa Fe Super Chief (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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