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Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 18:39:42 GMT
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Larry P wrote:
> I'm interested in a group, let's discuss further. I know you're looking
> at the selling end but I'm most interested in the production end of
> things... until you try to produce ten copies of something you don't
> really know what's entailed.
I can imagine <g>.
I ws thinking more about the selling end because it can be done
virtually. Sharing parts buying introduces the extra cost of mailing
parts around - which may or may not be worthwhile. However, I certainly
wouldn't assume that it wouldn't work without looking at it carefully. I
think your idea of designing a model to use parts from a specific group
of sets is spot-on, Larry.
There are quite a few areas where a group could be helpful:
* Brainstorming ideas (for products and/or organisation)
* Design - both co-operative design and refining individuals designs by
peer reviews
* Instructions - if several people specialise in instructions, not
everyone has to become an expert in producing them
* Sourcing parts - I wouldn't think of assuming that bulk parts buying
from Lego will be useful to us until we know much more about it. *
Sourcing from a specific group of sets which have extended availability
(2000 SW sets leap to mind) is a good idea. A few people with access to
bargain Lego sources might act as parts sorters/suppliers to others.
* Production - it might be that each person produces their own designs,
or some people might be happy to let others put together the "kit".
* Sales - a group website has already been suggested. One or more people
might also do the auction selling of kits produced by the group.
(Selling just a few auction lots by hand is easy: selling a large number
by hand gets messy! Auction automation software becomes a must. I have
not seen anything yet which does this the way I want, and I'm thinking
of writing my own...). Selling can be a virtual function which is a
natural for the WWW.
* Promotion - also easy to do virtually and a group can do much more
than individuals for the same total $$.
* shipping - the obvious way is that the person who produces the kit
does the shipping. It might work to have a central shipping person
though. It might also work to have central shippers in different areas
in the world, depending on where sales come from.
* Accounting - something like this makes the accounting fairly
complicated because the money gets shared out over all the people who
have contributed to a sale.
Are we talking about a Virtual Corporation here?
What will lego think of something like this? So far they have ignored
Suz's custom minifigs and Dan's kits and the various custom items sold
on eBay, but if we make enough noise they will undoubtedly notice us :).
Kevin
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| (...) Yeah that's one thing you're gonna hafta REALLY think about. If such a group gets formed, and is successful, I don't think Lego will ignore you guys anymore. Although you're not selling original Lego kits, you ARE selling something very (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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