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Re: Favorite Lego Train?
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:38:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Kevin Maynes wrote:
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> > With this in mind, would you be interested/willing to sell the instructions
> > w/o the huge (and ultimately pricey) collection of parts?
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> Sure... how much would you pay?
Dunno for certain.. I'd hate to pay $20 (for example) for some cheapie B&W
photocopies... On the other hand, having ripped your design :) as best I could
from photos and one LD image, I can respect the time and effort that went into
putting the instructions together. Time IS money after all. The lowest price on
a complete hopper that I've seen, IIRC, was US$50 plus shipping. Previously it
was about US$70+.. This hovers around CDN$80-130, give or take depending on the
day. Quite reasonable, given the parts concentration (the one I built STILL
isn't monochromatic), but still cause for pause.
It is, afterall, only 6-wide [grin, duck]
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> > Maybe a signed/numbered limited edition on heavy stock?
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> NOW how much would you pay?
To reiterate and more importantly clarify,
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> > 1)It's slightly nicer than "just instructions" thus worth having, and
> > 2)Nicely minted with a signature...
I don't really mean 80-lb full-rag archival stock, I'm leaning more in the
direction of a nice heavy coated ink-jet paper, printed one-side, each copy
straight out of the printer (as an example) rather than "just a photocopy".
Granted, colour photocopiers are getting pretty good, they just don't "feel
right" somehow...
I should know by now to be exact.. heh.
> But wait, there's more! What if I threw in printouts of the bulkhead
> flat and SWx instructions too?
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> Now how much would you pay?
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> But wait, I'm STILL not done. We'll add a color copy on heavy stock of
> the POVRay rendered set image?
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> Now how much would you pay? Operators are standing by! Call today!!!
Alright, alright, point taken.. ;]
> ... seriously ...
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> This is a good idea and I'd do it if the market would pay enough.
> Someone offered me 5, that wasn't enough at the time, and they accused
> me of being greedy for wanting more. I gave someone else a set for 10
> (without any sig) but they were a close friend of mine. (That's right,
> even my close friends pay for stuff... no free goods!)
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> I'd add all the things I mentioned, above, if it would get the value up
> a bit more and make people happier.
I agree on both counts; 5 is way too cheap, and nothing is free.
On one hand, cheap photocopies aren't really worth the effort to buy, but on
the other hand hiring a printing company to run off items with the same
production value as TLG is a bit more effort than is required (unless of course
Lego Direct goes beyond our wildest dreams, fostering the existence of
aftermarket set producers, but I digress).
I've got to go at the moment, but I'd like to pick this up later.
K.M.
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| I'll just say this. I have an HP 2100. That's a 600 dpi REAL laser printer. So far I have printed all instructions fresh. No photocopies. They look good. Very good. Sometimes I go 2 up to get the paper count to 19 pages printed on 10 pieces of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Sure... how much would you pay? (...) NOW how much would you pay? (...) But wait, there's more! What if I threw in printouts of the bulkhead flat and SWx instructions too? Now how much would you pay? But wait, I'm STILL not done. We'll add a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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