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Re: Star Wars on DVD
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:00:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
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> > If anyone doesn't think the Lego Company could sell us peices at
> > $0.02 and still be making a huge profit they are delusional.
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> Sign me up as delusional, I guess.
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> Except under very tightly controlled and special conditions, an across the
> board price of 2 cents is just not doable by TLC and if you think it is, I
> posit that you just may not know everything there is to know about how complex
> fulfillment is.
Considering that actuall cost (including packaging etc.) is less than one tenth
of a cent per "brick" when produced in the quanities TLG does, I disagree. It
would probably be even less if it wern't for the high quality and tolerence
levels TLG uses.
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> Can carefully controlled sales of pieces in large quantities achieve 2 cents a
> piece? perhaps. That's what we're trying to find out.
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> But that has nothing to do with CD sales. When's the last time you ordered • 1000
> copies of "Oops, I did it again"? (why anyone would want even one copy is a
> question I have to ask my daugther, who does...)
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> Is it just me that finds it ironic that the "artist"'s initials in this case
> are BS?
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> ++Lar
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| (...) complex (...) tenth (...) First, cite your .1 cent figure, please. Do you have access to TLC tooling and raw material costs? What's the burden rate or are they using fully allocated costing, and how much of the R&D budget is attributtable to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Sign me up as delusional, I guess. Except under very tightly controlled and special conditions, an across the board price of 2 cents is just not doable by TLC and if you think it is, I posit that you just may not know everything there is to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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