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Subject: 
Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:33:10 GMT
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What makes you think that Lego would deign to expend the effort it would
take to lie to a bunch of insignificant moqsuitoes like us? The contribution
margin on the entire load of Maersk ships probably amounts to what we
accountants call a rounding error.



"Ken Nagel" <knandjn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:I94x04.11JK@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.lego, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
In lugnet.lego, Ken Nagel wrote:

SNIP
Perhaps there are different connotations of the term "limited"? • SNIP
Spencer

No confussion here. They said through Jake M., SHO, and press releases
that it
was LIMITED TO 10,000.

I don't care about collectability. I bought two the first time one for
myself
and another for a nephew. I may get another this time.

however I do detest being lied to. the excuse "we changed our minds" is
only an
excuse. It does not change the fact that a promise was broken.

After bley and click hinges et. al. some seem to think they are taking the
high
road by defending the company no matter what they do. This is sad it's not
the
company doing with their product as they see fit it's the company lying to
you.-Ken



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  Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
 
(...) Snip I don't think this is part of a plot or deliberately cooked up. If it was only this problem there would be no problem. There's a patern of poor decisions, misreading the consumer (AFOL and not) and inability to see when a mistake has been (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
 
(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) No confussion here. They said through Jake M., SHO, and press releases that it was LIMITED TO 10,000. I don't care about collectability. I bought two the first time one for myself and another for a nephew. I may get (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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