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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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