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With the ability to purchase many of a single element directly from TLG in the not-to-distant future, I had the idea of developing an on-line database to track demand for an individual element. My initial idea was to simply take online requests (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) [snip] (...) This idea would: 1. Provide a wokable and reasonably democratic marketing tool for TLG to probe the market demands. 2. Reduce the amount of "please", "can't we have this or that" and nagging mails. 3. Possible disadvantage: Could (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Randy Anchikoski wrote in message ... (...) I think that this database would be beneficial for requesting lost or missing parts also. Whenever I request parts from customer service they do not have the ability to reference parts by the number (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Randy, How would you ensure that one person, or a small group of people, didn't skew the result in their favor by requesting the parts they want a million times or something like that? Troy -- ---...--- Visit Troy's LEGO® Brick Store! (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It sounds like he's envisioning something that would "track" the things you wanted - so you would say something like, "I want 20 1x5x6 grey castle walls", and it'd show up: Troy Cefaretti, 20 grey castle walls. If I wanted them too, I'd put in (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) My understanding is that pre-orders via credit card will be required for all bulk purchases and that LEGO Direct will not do bulk production runs of any element of any type until some minimum threshold is met (in terms of actual money (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) You mean like lets_buyit.com? (I think thats the name?) Apologies for posting to this NG (If I need to set an appropraite follw up let me know.) Alex (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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