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Re: Bulk Prices!
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Sun, 9 Jul 2000 08:04:08 GMT
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I really wonder who else (other than the adult Lego community) regularly
uses Shop At Home to make purchases. You have to be a die hard Lego fan to
go to the trouble of mail ordering specific pieces. There is lots of
selection in the stores to keep the kids happy. As a percentage of off the
shelf sales, I think that AFOLs are a small piece, but when it comes to Shop
At Home, I believe we make up a sensible chunk. I could be way off base
here, but do any of you out there remember using Shop At Home as a child (if
it existed when you were a child that is).
Silas
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Silas Pierrot writes:
> > [...] They do not need to sell these things bulk, in
> > a sense they are doing us a favour, so for them to stop selling the • bricks
> > bulk would be no loss to them, and a big loss to us.
>
> I think TLC is absolutely not doing this as a favour to us, although we can
> certainly be happy perceiving it that way and TLC would be equally happy • for
> us to perceive it that way. I think TLC is doing this because they realize
> they do need to do this in order to compete in the global Internet economy • in
> the 21st Century[1]. This is way too important to TLC to simply be a • _favor_
> to the adult LEGO community.
>
> Getting themselves geared up for bulk purchasing and short just-in-time
> production runs opens doors to many derivative possibilities down the • road --
> custom MOC's, custom parts packs, custom-image-to-LEGO-mosaic applications,
> and any number of other fan's-wet-dream-for-the-past-five-years • applications.
> If and when these things happen, don't expect TLC to acknowledge that these
> were old ideas kicking around for years already publicly in RTL long before
> LEGO Direct came along.
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>
> > [...]
> > I think an opposite logic should be used. Everybody buy lots of Lego • from
> > Lego Direct.
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> Nit: LEGO Direct doesn't sell bulk elements. LEGO Direct communicates • with
> consumers. LEGO Shop At Home sells the bulk elements.
>
> --Todd
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> [1] which of course starts in 6 months. :)
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| When I was young (early 80s) I drooled over the parts packs brochure. I never begged my parents to order any ("You already have too much Lego" might have been the answer.) Now I live in an apartment building. One day in the elevator I observed a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I still have the receipt from one order I made when I was about ten years old. :) several trees & flowers service packs, some crater baseplates and space landing baseplates, and other good stuff :) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) When I was a child in the 80s, I would buy from S@H Canada. I would think long and hard about what I wanted. I would stare at the last pages in the in-set catalogue. Then I would figure out what I could afford with my limited budget. I would (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Well, I used S@H from Israel and forced my uncle to ship the sets to me... (I think the first time I did that was at 13). -Shiri (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I think TLC is absolutely not doing this as a favour to us, although we can certainly be happy perceiving it that way and TLC would be equally happy for us to perceive it that way. I think TLC is doing this because they realize they do need to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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