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Hi Adam,
I think its all academic until we know the price per part or per run of a part.
What we then need is not a pledge of money but of the number of each part people
want and therefore how many runs of that part will be needed.
This consortium that others are getting together is only a risk because the
members are trying to subsidise their own parts purchases by buying up excess
part run stock and flogging/auctioning it to the rest of us at what they hope is
a handsome profit.
Mark H.
Adam Howard wrote:
> Hi LUGNET Community members,
>
>
> I was going to pledge $500 towards this idea, but when I discovered we were
> not going to be able to even suggest parts, that instead they were all going
> to be train windows and doors and a few others that were chosen by the
> people setting this up, I pulled my pledge. I agree with Mike on this. I
> think it is important to open this up publicly and let everyone know what's
> going on so that we might agree on something that would benefit all of us.
> I don't know how many have already pledged to just buy train windows and
> doors through Larry's proposal, but I would like to offer a different
> suggestion that you should consider before pledging your money to Larry.
> (Note: This is not an attack on Larry, just trying to make people aware of
> the issue and an alternative.)
>
> I suggest:
>
> 1. People pledge an amount of money that they can afford, be it $1 to
> $10,000.
> 2. Each pledge will be accompanied by a list of parts that you want the
> most. This list could be as long as you want. But you should place your
> most desired at the top.
> 3. People who pledge $100 or more will be the ones who decide which parts
> are ordered.
> 4. Parts will be ordered in lots of 500.
> 5. Parts are chosen by going through the list according to the amount
> pledged (highest to lowest) and alphabetically (when pledges are the same).
> The first part on the list of the highest pledgee with the last name coming
> first in the English alphabet will be added to the list to be ordered, then
> the first part of the second highest pledgee with the last name coming
> first/second will be added to the list of parts to be ordered, etc, until
> all parts on everyone's list is on the order list. When a part is listed
> more than once on different peoples lists, those people will be contacted to
> decide whether that part should be ordered multiple times or if one order of
> 500 would suffice. In those cases where only one order was decided on then
> the first pledgee with that part order would be the 'owner' of that part
> request and consecutive people who agreed to the one order will have the
> next part in their list added instead.
> 6. Then we would send this order list to TLG with our proposal of $X and
> ask how far down the list could we buy with the $X amount of dollars.
> 7. If they accept then we would collect the funds for the order. That's
> very important because I don't think anyone would want to put up $20-50K and
> end up being stuck with a bunch of parts they didn't want.
> 8. Then we would place our order.
> 9. It would be delivered to one persons house. (We may need to add a small
> % to each pledge amount to cover extra shipping costs.)
> 10. That one person would mail out various boxes to people who have
> volunteered to help sort the pieces.
> 11. Each person who pledged would send out a list of how many parts on
> their lists that they really want. (Ideally not everyone will want all 500
> pieces that had to be ordered so that TLG would make a single part.)
> 12. Then the sorters would separate the pieces according to the pledge's
> desired list.
> 13. Then all the remaining pieces would be listed for the all pledgees to
> choose from. (We would have to set a limit depending on the amount you
> pledged/paid and if possible the actual cost of the part (probably as a
> function of weight).)
> 14. Then the sorters would sort out those pieces.
> 15. The sorters would pack up the packages and ship them to the consortium
> members.
> 16. Any remaining pieces would be returned to the original person who
> received the shipment. They would then sort out the pieces again if
> necessary and put all of them up for auction to the whole LUGNET community.
> (We could also set up the auction where each sorter sent out pieces
> according to who won the bid, but I think collecting them in one place
> before the auction would be best.)
> 17. Proceeds from the auction would be split according to the % amount you
> pledged and paid initially.
> 18. We would all sit back and marvel at the number of pieces that we have
> always dreamed of owning.
>
> Personally I think this would be the most ideal solution to our 'once in a
> life-time' deal with TLG. Please send comments.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Howard
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| (...) That's extremely offensive. YOU auction things to make money. You could just as easily describe what I do (buy lots of copies of sets on clearance, keep what I want out of them, then auction the rest) as "flogging" the rest of you for a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| Hi LUGNET Community members, Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:slrn7sgjqo.7ai....UTK.EDU... (...) I was going to pledge $500 towards this idea, but when I discovered we were not going to be able to even suggest parts, that (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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