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| (...) I absolve you my child :~) ... ...if you give me a phone number or some kind of contact info! Are they on the net, or did you go in to the store? Tell me, TELL ME NOW - before someone gets hurt!! Sorry, lost control there for a second. Whew! (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Well, I only bought 20 when I called the other morning, partly because I took a closer look at the set and didn't see enough in it to make me want more and partly because I know the market will be flooded with them so I won't be able to sell (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) army (...) Hey John, Que pasa? Check out Jon Kozan at Baylit, I think there's a link here on Lugnet somewhere. He sells parts individually, he has all different kinds of heads for about 50 cents each. I just picked up 10 or so the other day. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) a (...) I won't defend scalping but cleaning out the outlet stores is exactly what we should do. It's "putting our money where our mouth is." We claim to have all this tremendous buying power, we should be pleased when we actually show it. As (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes: <snip> (...) well that was my point about its a good business... I guess the "jack up the prices" wasn't a good choice of words, so I am sorry about that. I respect folks purchases,and putting things (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| In lugnet.market.shopping, Kevin Loch writes: <snip> (...) I am really sorry folks got the "I gotta defend my position bug" over my post. often folks will buy out a lot and then offer them to other LUGNETer's at thier cost plus shipping,which is (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) post. You diddn't offend me. I know I don't have very deep pockets right now :( Actually I diddn't really disagree with what you said either, I just wanted to point out that buying out the store is a good thing for us collectively, even if (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Swooped! Doesn't that suck. I guess we all just need to learn to buy first and ask questions later. You can always return sets that no one wants, but you can't put them back on the shelf after you've let them get away. Will (Sorry for the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) OK, I'll bite. How does someone "deliberately try to create a shortage" in Lego ? Occasionally I come across something that is HTF (examples being exploriens and armada). I *usually* find these languishing on a store shelf where they have been (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) I don't believe that piece has a back face on it. In other words, it is more like a windshield. Therefore, if it was turned around like a minifig dress, that part would be faceless, or open. A cool thing to use that piece for is a cockpit (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I never saw that piece in sets, only in big Lego lots that I buy from people (obviously with the occasional imposter bricks thrown in). (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... (...) :) (...) I have one of these in a lot I got from my sister. I always wondered which set it is from. I am still wondering because none of the above listed sets look like anything I got from her. Anyway, if (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hmmm, I never realized they were all that scarce. I think I must have purchased about 20 sets of these, including multilples of 6390 and 722. I also have these in trans-blue. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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