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Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:59:37 GMT
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:41:26 GMT, "richard marchetti"
<blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote:
> Maybe we could look at it as proof that people want to pay less overhead on
> larger quantities of bricks, or in other words -- they are willing to pay
> closer to a wholesale price on multiples of the same sets. If AFOL were to
> be stuck paying full retail, it just wouldn't happen I suspect. And I don't
> see how this hurts the larger Lego retail market anyway. People focused on
> finding these bargains are not the same persons making a last minute impulse
> purchase for a birthday gift, etc.
>
> I don't see this as bad news for TLC, just an opportunity for them to learn
> the realities of the market they are in at the present time. Is it the case
> that children were buying these sets for the most part? From an online
> service requiring a credit card? Somehow I doubt it...
>
> Which leads me to a general comment on Lego Direct bulk items -- if we are
> buying directly from TLC why should we be paying more, rather than less,
> than retail per brick? I sure don't want to be charged the overhead for
> their silly and WAY overblown website. Just sell me bulk and cheaply too...
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> And the eToys model suggests to me that we don't have to pay more, that
> there is a way to get you, TLC, to sell this stuff to us AFOL at a smaller
> cost...
Hey, was there not a company around that USED to be called eToys? oh
ya they went out of business...(Ok on the way out of business) Great
role model there Mr. Sunshine :^(
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> The closer we get to $0.25 a brick, the more likely I am to just spend most
> of my money on eBay where paying a premium for older and better sets makes
> more sense than paying the same for new and less well designed sets. And if
> bulk nears this price, well -- then I just don't see the point of it.
I don't see myself buying the common bricks in common colors from LD,
I will buy stuff I want, in the colors I want when I feel like it or
it makes sense to me. I see part of the cost in being convenience,
you don't HAVE to buy a bigger set (or multiples) to get what you are
looking for. Would I like less expensive? of course who doesn't want
to pay less? I also know that the prices set are the prices that are
and can deal with that.
>
> See TLC? You created a monster by simply being a better toy manufacturer in
> the past than you are presently. A high level of expectation has already
> been established. Some of the junk you are trying to sell this year just
> "ain't gonna cut it." And even if we *are* willing to buy, it may have to
> be at deep discount. And "bulk" should always have meant a deep discount.
Bulk means "Big Quantity" to me, many times "Big Quantity" means
cheaper prices, but not always. Perhaps the Bulk offering that LD has
should have been Service Packs Mark 2 ? Nah, it works for me as it
is. :^)
>
> -- Richard (just call me Mr. Sunshine...)
Mike
--
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! :^)
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