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Re: Bulk Orders Online DB: useful?
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:00:48 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jeff Johnston writes:
[...] Or maybe TLC will require "preorders" on certain pieces - that way you
can only vote with how much money you are willing to spend.

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 collected).  Disclaimer:  I could be wrong, but this is what I got from
Brad's post Sunday night and a phone conversation a week ago.  It may only
hold true for a few months, or it may always be the case.  (I believe it's the
only smart way for them to run the business -- holding inventory is bad.)

--Todd



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  Re: Bulk Orders Online DB: useful?
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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