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As for usernames I have a few that I use over various websites. Doesn't matter what it is as long as you can remember it.
I signed up to the VIP system from day one and have probably had about £250-£300 worth of "free money" in the last year...its not free of course, i had to spend a lot of money to get it but its something i guess.
Thanks all.
I might be wrong but believe that to be the case.
Have you posted in "I Chose this username because" thread?
From [email protected] webpage:
Phone:
Call our friendly experts at 00-800-5346-1111. They will sign you up to the VIP Program there and then, but you will still need to visit VIP.LEGO.com/Register to create a LEGO ID username to activate your card and unlock your membership benefits.
LEGO store and phone:
If you sign up to the VIP Program in a store or via the phone, your card is not validated until you complete your registration online. Its as simple as 1, 2,3 and only takes two minutes
1. Join the VIP Program in store or over the phone
2. Create your online LEGO ID
3. Register your card
Hope that helps!
(They are open from 8am on that number.)
Even if you sign up at the Lego Store you still have to go online create your id and register your VIP card.
1) 5% merchandise rebate
2) Early access to buy things at full price
3) A red keychain
4) Complete corporate and marketing tracking of every Lego purchase you make
6) It helps you keep track of both [email protected] and LBR purchases in one bucket
7) You can pool online and real purchase rebates
8) It gets you free access into some of the best hot spots in Peoria, Illinois
a) At least we don't have to use these things to get what meager discounts are still available from other vendors.
b) And they haven't been installed subcutaneously.
This may be a discussion for a different thread, so I'll just touch on it here, but IMHO TLG are perfectly within their rights to put limits on what they sell to people. People therefore shouldn't be surprised if TLG punish them if they deliberately break those limits.
Therefore, the average person, who doesn't deliberately break purchasing limits, has nothing to worry about from TLG knowing what they've bought through the VIP programme.
I do buy parts from bricklink, and I do see where you're going with that question. My answer to that is that the best deals for sets are usually found outside of TLG's immediate sphere of influence (e.g. Tesco, Argos etc). Personally I don't see how it's possible to make a half-decent profit on selling parts without getting a discount on most sets of more than 30 or 40%. This naturally precludes (in most cases) getting sets for parting-out purposes from TLG, and means that the majority of resellers who buy from TLG are, I would suggest, doing so to sell the sets whole when they go EOL.
Therefore it's those kinds of resellers, rather than the part-outers, who are most hit by the limits TLG imposes. That doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I myself am not a reseller, but I do want them to be able to continue to exist and to be able to provide a steady supply of parts in bulk to the community at reasonable prices. So everything that TLG is doing to decrease opportunities for them to do their business I find worrisome. Not to mention that I occasionally would like to pick up an exclusive (or Minecraft set, etc.) in multiple for my own purposes.
I don't know if you've noticed yet, but TLG appears to be making an effort to also limit discount opportunities outside their immediate sphere of influence (as you say). Things aren't looking good all around.
If TLG succeeds in making MOCcing a significantly less affordable hobby (which is where things look to be headed at the moment), it will be a shame, and will have other repercussions for them downstream. Where do you think the talent pool from which they will hire the set designers of the future will come from? These people have to be able to afford to develop their art for years beforehand.
It's a moot point really, because it's just a matter of time before we are all Borg anyway.