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Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:47:22 GMT
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Since attention was brought to this post, after re-reading it, I have some
comments (nothing very serious)...
In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> This reasoning nicely allows someone to decide how much time they are
> willing to commit to finding deals. If you want to just see the deals
> that you can easily get, watch shopping only. Willing to shop around,
> but don't have the time to keep up with auctions, add buy-sell-trade.
> Live for LEGO, add auction.
In light of the recent reports on the S@H phone specials, perhaps they don't
belong in lugnet.market.shopping any more. I'm referring to the tendency of the
interesting items being sold out within minutes of the posting, or sometimes
even before the posting. I remember when phone specials usually were available
for at least a day or two after the posting.
I think several forces are at play:
- there are fewer items in the sales
- there are more of us
- Bricklink makes it easier to sell parts from parted out sets
> One thing I'd like to see handled a bit better is to have more of the
> discussion follow up to theory, that way the people really just looking
> for a good deal, who don't care about how the market works, can ignore
> the discussion (some discussion is appropriate for the advertisement
> group because it is clarifying the deal).
This one still bears some thought...
Frank
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 | | Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
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| I see the reasoning behind third party announcements in shopping and advertisements in buy-sell-trade, but I see a better reasoning which follows the charter. The line of reasoning is the availability of the deals. The deals advertised (either by (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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