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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) you suggest with both Halloween Buckets and Star Wars LEGO sets. The limit was two per person. I don't know how they enforced it but there was a sign in the Star Wars aisle stating that (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd like to think that you'd regard doing business as a bit more than that. There's two sides of it: A. Making a profit, and B. Providing a good service to your customers. Both are important. Selling all your stock no matter who to may be the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That was just my usual tongue-in-cheek banter. I was quite impressed by the ingenuity of the badges made last time around, and have a few tower ideas myself. 40*40 studs seems way too big though, surely. It would preclude most innovative (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Simon Robinson (<FJBD82.DyF@lugnet.com>) wrote at 02:21:38 (...) I agree, but they don't know that sort of thing until someone tells them. I couldn't believe it when they said that 250 were going to America just for 2 orders. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Nah, too much trouble. I know *I* wouldn't bother doing that if I were a retailer. The point is to sell your stock on hand and make a profit. If Larry or anyone else wanted to artificially limit the number they would sell to people, fine, or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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That is really good of them. But what would be nice in that case would be if they could be persuaded - when they know they've got a rare old set that is in heavy demand - to restrict the numbers of the set that they will sell to any one person, in (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I was researching a new screenplay: "How to get a head in Architecture". -- Liam. (URL) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) prototype (...) new-for-98 3-thin-spoke "alloy" wheels (I guess their development timeframe is far too long for that to have been inspired by me posting about that possibility); the chromed 8880 wheels look a lot better then the new wheels (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.technic)
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Scott-A (<FJAAx9.Fy0@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:34:16 (...) 0161-881-3906 (I was tempted to just reply 'yes' :-) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Scott-A (<FJAAsw.Fr3@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:31:31 (...) I think first time round I'm more interested in impressiveness. We don't want to push the envelope when we'd have to sort out whose was what if it collapses. If we can do (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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