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Re: Wal-mart sale/3033
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sat, 1 May 1999 16:42:46 GMT
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cjc@!StopSpammers!newsguy.com
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Chris Ernest Hall <fozboot@best.com> wrote:
> less bricks in the bucket or raise the price. Maybe TLG has realized that the
> main purpose of buckets is to feed the very active, Internet-based secondary
> economy of Lego bricks, and the cancellation of buckets is a prelude to TLG
> switching to an auction-based distribution of bricks.
I don't see how they could have realized that, considering the fact
that it simply can't be true. No matter how many buckets or piles of
bricks you see for sale on eBay, RTL, here, wherever, I would be
willing to be huge sums of money that the parents who buy them for
their kids buy a hundred times more buckets than AFOLs or eBay
scalpers.
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| (...) You know, I get tired of seeing eBay sellers generally referred to as scalpers. Can't you just say eBay sellers? From what I've seen, very few buckets are sold whole (the obvious exceptions being the halloween bucket and occasional silver (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Wal-mart sale/3033
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| (...) 3033 blue tub is still very common in the SF bay area. Even if TLG canceled it, it would take quite a long time for them to disappear in the channel. I find their decision to cancel buckets a bit bewildering - either they should put less (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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