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Re: Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:26:50 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, James Powell writes:
> > Todd,
> > (and everyone else too!)
> > I would think that they -might- put a stipulation on that you cannot
> > resell directly (Ie auction on E-bay for 3x the money). I would agree
> > with a limit like that. I also would agree if they said : no building
> > sets from parts -for resale-. This then allows people either to:
> > [...]
>
> Actually, I'll bet they actually couldn't put any restrictions on the parts.
> Unless each part is individually marked with a unique serial number (like
> paper money), there's no way to track what happens to the pieces after sale,
> and therefore no way to enforce the restriction. It would be extremely easy
> to get around, for one thing, since you'd never know whether some parts sale
> or custom set had obtained the parts from a bulk purchase or from breaking
> down whole sets.
Agreed. It *might* be trackable for large-volume sellers - i.e. audit them and
track how they spent there money - but that gets horribly expensive and has all
kinds of legal strings and red tape to go through before you even can try.
I don't think that LEGO could reasonably or affordably enforce any restrictions
they put on bulk buying.
However, that being said, there is one restriction I *would* support, which
would, in a big way, be community-enforced. I would suggest that LEGO Direct
require any reselling of parts (individually or as sets or whatever) to state
clearly the source of those parts.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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