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| (...) I think you're right. And I think it's partly my fault! (1) Retailers are getting much better at supplier management, inventory management, just in time replenishment, and most importantly, sales prediction, thanks to increased integration (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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| (...) I think it is their improving inventory control. They probably realized they have to tighten up in order to be competitive with Walmart, which I understand has a running inventory update and automatic reordering as items go through the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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| (...) Um, don't you mean "CLOSE to 0"?? If you did a trade with a BrickLink store, you surely did it via buying stuff from that store. (washed by that store buying stuff from yours to even it out or close to it) To do otherwise (to set up a side (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| Some thoughts: While using cash is a pretty efficient way of doing things, it does have a cost. Surre, the cost is often pretty minimal, but nevertheless there is a cost. Of course a trade has its own costs. TANSTAAFL - There Aint No Such Thing As A (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) That's all well and good, but if you *do* find someone that has what you want and wants what you have, trading can be both a positive experience *and* an efficient way to do the deal. And sites that seem to be biased towards cash transactions (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) and (...) even (...) Personally I never understand why anyone bothers with trading. The whole point of inventing the concept of money was because one-on-one bartering (trading) isn't scaleable because it depends on finding the person who not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) That would be better suited to market.theory than .general, at least in my opinion. (...) I find trades to be a fair bit of work and I find myself doing them less and less. The advent of automation at sites to aid buying and selling tilts it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Re: 10152 Update
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| moving thread to lugnet.market.theory (...) (attn: spite what the following text reads, it isn't sarcasm. You'd be right in saying that I'm not primarily a collector. So help me out.(and others who don't understand this either) So instead of having (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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| Hello! (...) TLC keeps their vault for their lawyers. So when, for example, MegaBloks produces a set that's tooo similiar to any LEGO set they walk into their catacombs, take the respective set and show the world: We have done this first! On this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory)
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