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RE: What's happening????????
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Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:35:04 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Coghill [mailto:cogs@fan.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:09 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: RE: What's happening????????
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> Thank Guys yes, there is a TRU here and they didn't have any
> of the "new"
> stuff, i found out from one employee that the lego rep places
> their orders
> and determines their stock. sound wierd i know, probibaly
> yanking my chain.
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Well....They probably were telling you the truth...I know that the Toyworld
in Craigieburn has stock 'ordered' by the lego rep, as do ALL Target stores
[and others probably...But I only know these 2 for certain], so it wouldn't
surprise me if that is what happens at TRU. Unfortunately, it's still the
store buyers who decide the initial range brought into Australia, I believe
:( [although LA has a large amount of input here, too] The reps basically go
to the stores, look at what is there and decide that the store needs x,y,
and z sets in whatever quantities [which is how the toyworlds etc. got
landed with so many 6975's, and why the Craigieburn toyworld had 39 6709's
[$3 each now]] Strangely enough, the reps are also the people who give
stores the ability to mark down set prices...by 'crediting' the stores for x
number of the set, which is how toyworld managed to have the large sets so
cheap recently. This also means that if a local store doesn't have the new
sets in when other stores do, it's a safe bet that the lego rep hasn't
bothered visiting recently. [Craigieburn toyworld only started getting this
years range about 3 weeks ago..5903,5904,7155 then, and a larger range last
week, including 'City'...shows LA's opinion of smaller stores.]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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| (...) Toyworld (...) stores In these times of economic rationalism, the stores probably just say to the reps, "we have allocated X metres of shelf space for Lego and we expect it to generate $Y per month profit; if not, we'll give you less space (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Whytcross, Benjamin wrote in message <1D0812CAE3E7D2118BC...s.com.au>. .. (...) go (...) Well, I hope all those reps got fired... Hate to sound so vindictive, but to be brutally honest there's a lot at stake here, like the reputation of the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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