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Re: Technic Box #1
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lugnet.market.jambalaya
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Sun, 6 Aug 2000 03:40:26 GMT
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wattsup1@earthlink.NOMORESPAMnet
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I think most of this process is faulted by two things:
1) A lot of people take way too long to turn the boxes (recieve and send to the
next person) Most boxes have a current hop count of 5 to 10. This process has
been going on for just over 1 year.... Hmmm, 52 weeks in a year, 5 to 10
hops...That's 5 to 10 weeks per turn. Bad, bad, bad.....
2) Accountability. We started to post input and output of the boxes, but some
people did'nt want the surprise taken away... I even put a disk in the 1st box I
had, but people didn't use it. I don't think it was the removal of surprise
element, I think it was just lazyness (just like number 1 above).
<now jumping on soapbox>
I for one put a lot into the three boxes I saw , and took very little. I also
turned boxes within 3 working days....
For those who are not fair: if you want this to succeed, you must be fair with
your input and with your timeliness.
<now jumping off>
we don't need ratings, we need accountablility both in timing and input/output.
If you can't commit to turning a quality box within a week, then drop-out (5 hops
in a year...pleeease....)
-Phil
Christopher Weeks wrote:
> In lugnet.market.jambalaya, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > This is a technic box.
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> I suppose.
>
> I'm done with it. I took out six pieces in red because I didn't have them in
> that color and I put nine pieces in, but it's still not much. This box is
> close to valuless. I think I could sell it on eBay if it were all brand new
> for ~$20. I considered upping the value substantially, but I've already done
> that so much that I'm becoming cynical.
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> > It has some gears and such, some steering assemblies I tossed in, a blue
> > air tank and some early pneumo stuff. I think I will put the really old
> > (red/blue/yellow) gears in it too
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> I think the value of just the stuff Larry mentions starting it with (and I
> assume there was also technic beams, rods, pins etc also) values more than what
> the current box does. It's a shame that it has degraded so. Does everyone out
> there understand that you have a responsibility to increase the value of the
> box while it's in your possession?
>
> Thinking of that, I'm going back to add some more. Cynicism is beaten down by
> responsibility. But I wish you folks would get with the program.
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> Would it be possible to start rating one another's performance? Would that be
> desireable? If everyone posted what they were taking and adding, there would
> be more accountability...
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> That said, I suppose I should.
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> I took:
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> 4 90 deg tech rod joiners - red
> 2 1x6 technic plates with holes instead of studs on the ends - red
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> I added:
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> 1 white 2x4 electric plate
> 1 white 2x8 electric plate
> 1 black 3.5 foot electric cord with 2x2 conductive plates on ends
> 4 black 1x6 technic beams
> 2 grey 1x6x1.3 technic sloped beams
> 1 three-piece steering front end assembly thingy
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris
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| Phil Watt schreef: (...) It's funny you guys mention this... Having started the dutch box in april (or was it may???) and being part of Duck's international promo box showed me just the opposite... For the dutch box, we had 6 participants and a full (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| (...) I suppose. I'm done with it. I took out six pieces in red because I didn't have them in that color and I put nine pieces in, but it's still not much. This box is close to valuless. I think I could sell it on eBay if it were all brand new for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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