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I wonder if the collector uproar when the first GLOWs were introduced plays a role. Not everyone may know that the first GLOWs were of lights that had not previously been released as Limited Editions. Collector sentiment, as expressed to Harbour Lights, was that no lighthouse should be a GLOW before it was a Limited Edition. Could this have painted HLs into a corner, restricting their flexibity in release schedule and forcing everything to be an LE at release. Imagine for a minute that 1/2 or 2/3 of a years releases were GLOWS. HLs would get revenue, committed LE collectors would have fewer pieces to buy each year and the finite supply of lighthouses to be sculpted would last several more year. Done this way, maybe GLOWS would have helped instead of hurt. Just a thought. And not fully formed at this point either.


So we'd get NEW pieces as GLOWS that in terms of quality and price are virtually indistinquishable from an LE except they have never been made before, and there is no edition size limitation?

BIG HURT.

Might as well abandon the Limited Edition.

It was not without good reason that Collectors put up a squawk sufficient to deter HL from this approach.

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[This message has been edited by JTimothyA (edited 01-27-2002).]