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Subject:	Re: Lego Buckets on Sale for $2.00 at E-Toys (back in stock, for now)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:45:17 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Pieniazek writes: > My goodness. What is WRONG at eToys??? My guess is that somebody slipped a decimal someplace when entering dimensions. So, even though the weight makes it a Medium Thing, the code that figures out how to box Things thinks that its a Huge Fluffy Medium Thing, and sticks them in separate packages to avoid hitting the outside dimension limits. Or maybe some dotcom-millionaire-wannabe figured out that his options are so far underwater it'll take a bathysphere to retrieve them, and went postal (so to speak...), nerd-style. Ran

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		Re: Lego Buckets on Sale for $2.00 at E-Toys (back in stock, for now)
(...) Funny, I went to the post office yesterday to pick-up the 20 boxes from e-Toys (to assist my carrier, and because I received a nice phone call Sunday morning from them asking for help). They, of course, wouldn't fit in my car, so I unpacked (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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		Re: Lego Buckets on Sale for $2.00 at E-Toys (back in stock, for now)
(...) My goodness. What is WRONG at eToys??? They weren't this silly previously. Have they changed fulfillment software? I don't get it. I can remember getting things from eToys in the past that were packed SOMEWHAT more sensibly. Not always the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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