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Re: Bulk Orders Online DB: useful?
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:23:17 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> 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?
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 how many I wanted (say 30) and the program
would say that people want 50 walls - Troy wants 20 and I want 30.
I would think that if someone abused this - say, by saying "I want 50,000
sprockets" in an attempt to make sure that TLC makes sprockets for LEGO
Direct - then they would be barred from using the site or something. Or
maybe TLC will require "preorders" on certain pieces - that way you can
only vote with how much money you are willing to spend.
J
> Randy Anchikoski <ranch@writeme.com> wrote in message
> news:Ft847u.os@lugnet.com...
> > 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 based on the • colour-type
> > combination, or element # ideally. The results of the requests would be
> > publicly available in HTML format, or Excel/Access/CSV--whatever.
> > Individuals would have the ability to add, subtract, & modify their • entries.
> > The site would not be 'secure' in that I don't have SSL, and everything is
> > in plain text. However, there is no intention of handling any money or
> > transactions, just supply data to the web community. There are many
> > inherent faults in this concept, but would it be useful? To TLG? To the
> > community?
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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 (...) (24 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) (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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