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Re: How will Lego Direct Influence Prices?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 05:46:12 GMT
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Philip Ogston wrote:
> In lugnet.market.theory, James Brown writes:
> > If firbleflanges are
> > available at $0.20 each from LD, (even if only in large quantities) then the
> > people who need firbleflanges will be much less willing to pay $0.50 or $1.00
> > in auctions.
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> Maybe, but there might still be people who want 10 firbleflanges who would be
> willing to buy from people who had bought 100.
Sorry to drift, but *where* did you get that marvelous word ("firbleflange")? I
love it. It's the best one I've heard since "phlogiston."
Erm. Ahem. Back to topic...I agree with both, actually--but you'll probably find
an attenuation among the *major* builders, who will always be more interested in
buying fantastic fields of firbleflanges than fifty firbleflanges a fling.fnord
Great thread, though. It's been in the back of my head for weeks.
best (and mildly slap-happily)
Lindsay
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| (...) Heh... I'm not sure. Either I invented it, or I saw it somewhere. I suspect it's a spur-of-the-moment variation of filbertflange, which has the same entymological origin as grapplegrommet. An old hardware store commercial, I believe. Using (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: How will Lego Direct Influence Prices?
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| (...) I don't get credit for "firbleflange", although I love it too. I have been trying to get people to refer to me as "Phlogiston" though, it fits my name, but maybe not so much my character. Funny thing though, since my father was called (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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